It sometimes feels as though bibliographic instruction and teaching library research methodologies has changed little…
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Entries from February 2007
16th century reference librarians
February 23, 2007
book provenance
February 21, 2007
This inscription is from Svenskt Bibliskt Uppslagsverk, an apparent dictionary gifted by one of the editors, Ivan Engnell, a former professor of Old Testament at Uppsala in Sweden, to William F. Albright when they met in Uppsala in May, 1952. The book subsequently became a part of our library’s William F. Albright Collection.
This inscription [...]
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information literacy, bibliographic instruction, and mind-mapping - part one
February 21, 2007
The catch-phrase these days in library reference work is “information literacy,” a concept which is defined by the Penn State faculty senate as being comprised of four interconnected components:
knowledge of information sources, the organization of information, and the nature of knowing the attributes of scholarly knowledge;
skills in finding, evaluating, using and effectively communicating information;
generalization of [...]
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