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FUN VIDEO WITH DISCUSSION AND QUIZ "Fighting plagiarism is serious business. From brainchild-snatching to wholly quotables, plagiarists have plenty of wily ways to pass others' work off as their own -- and all of them are threats to original thinking. Melissa Huseman D'Annunzio imagines what would happen if a Department of Plagiarism Investigation were on the case."

""I think librarians are critical. You're actually seeing, in some places, the role of the librarian is adjunct faculty, or instructional design support, in a way," says Gregg. "The whole world of librarians is going way beyond what somebody who got an MLIS even 10 years ago is dealing with right now. So we're trying to make sure that the people in the services we provide focus on that." Click on the image below for a better look at the new infographic"

I think this is a pretty interesting and provocative post about rethinking the way we classify material in libraries. I would like to see what others think.

"# College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. # Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. # Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. # Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency."

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"A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content;[1][2] this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.[citation needed] Folksonomy is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy."

great to think about