It’s back.
Bringing together a selection of work by 17 international artists, Library Science contemplates our personal, intellectual and physical relationship to the library as this venerable institution—and the information it contains—is being radically transformed by the digital era. Through drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, painting and web-based projects, the artists in Library Science explore the library through its unique forms, attributes and systems: from public stacks to private collections, from unique architectural spaces to the people who populate them, from traditional card catalogues to that ever-growing “cyber-library,” the World Wide Web.
All this would fit in your pocket now. “The photo shows the busy catalog card distribution office at the Library of Congress. There’s no date on the photographic print. Recently, we needed to determine when the photo was taken, so out came my magnifying glass.”
(Source: lookhigh, via the-librarian)
Lovely poster to promote Dutch libraries by @chrishaughton - owl goes to the library
(via the-librarian)
In my opinion, this description actually remains true.
Harriet E Howe. “Traits of the Ideal and the Potential Librarian,” The Library Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Apr., 1936): pp. 111-123.
"This inability to do serious research also has implications beyond campus. “Many (but not all) students are not gaining the information literacy skills in college that they will need in their future careers,” Andrew D. Asher, one of the authors of the study, told the Australian news website The Conversation. “This isn’t just about doing academic research, but also about being a savvy, reflective, and critical consumers of information."
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Just Google It: How Search Engines Stunt College Students’ Research Skills - Education - GOOD
True story. Professors expect us to already know how to do research, how to use whatever citation style they ask for (generally NOT the one we were taught in high school), and all that.
When I asked my professor for clarification on APA style once, she sarcastically asked me if I’m even a psych major. Way to go.
(via lookoutsideyourself)
(via brute-reason)
