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December 11, 2007
From Wired Campus 12/10/07
For Students, It's About Courses, Not Subjects
Students aren't interested in online information gateways about subjects. They're interested in information related to their courses. That's the message this week from ACRLog, the blog for academic and research librarians, as the blogger Steven Bell attempts to counsel professors and librarians on ways to reach out to students. He cites a recent study in the journal Portal, in which Oregon State University librarians found that students were much more interested in information if it was linked to a course they were taking. Topic-oriented information collections were much less compelling.
Posted by schnitzr at December 11, 2007 07:36 AM