What is it about?
Faculty that assign their students traditional research papers actually encourage Googlitis, an overreliance on search engines, at the expense of higher-quality traditional information sources like the library catalog and research databases and nontraditional resources like disciplinary and workplace professionals and colleagues. Collaboration with academic librarians can enable faculty to create research assignments that are situated in disciplines and workplaces and require discipline- and workplace-specific research tools and practices. Situated assignments better prepare students to become disciplinary and professional citizens, and they work against Googlitis.
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Why is it important?
This paper makes two important contributions: It suggests ways to teach research/information-finding skills while immersing students in disciplinary/workplace practices. It also works against quick and dirty research using Google.
Perspectives
As an academic librarian and linguist/communications scholar, I propose a situated means of teaching disciplinary information finding that emphasizes discipline- and workplace-based practices rather than generic research using search engines like Google.
Dr Carol A. Leibiger
University of South Dakota
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This page is a summary of: “Google Reigns Triumphant”?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative, Situated Information Literacy Instruction, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, October 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01639269.2011.628886.
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