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"Build a personal research library. As a graduate student, one of the things you are most likely to be doing at any given time is reading (although you'll note that @j_l_r below recommends not doing all of what's assigned!). You will read articles, book chapters, and entire books much faster than you would have ever thought possible. And unless these articles fall into your area of interest, you might be inclined to forget about them as soon as the seminar meeting is passed. But we'd like to suggest that you begin as early as possible in your studies to build a personal research library. A personal research library is a record of what you've read and what you thought about it. It can be as simple as a citation, a few keywords, and a brief abstract. We'd recommend using Zotero (see Amy's posts on Getting Started with Zotero, parts One and Two) or EndNote, but even a box of 3x5 cards is better than trying to remember that really great essay from your first semester in grad school five years down the road when you're writing your dissertation. A little extra work now will pay big dividends in the future, especially if you change your research project."

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the service of all libraries, questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices.

Good discussion of Millennials, nature of catalogs and databases, library reference services, and whether these meet the needs of today's students

Francis Miksa, The Genius of Library Cataloging and Its Possible Future

Evaluation and library decision making By Peter Hernon, Charles R. McClure

An example of how Diigo is useful for presenting a collection of resources. I used this Book Club in a Bag marketing project for Competency D.

Resources for launching new Book Club in a Bag program at Berkeley Public Library (volunteer project)

See the chart constructed from a lecture by Terry Winograd LIBRARY CULTURE vs. INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL CULTURE

TITLE: Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett EVENT DATE: 05/14/2008 RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window) DESCRIPTION: RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code. Speaker Biography: Dr. Barbara Tillett is chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office at the Library of Congress.

First chapter gives ovrview of what research is and importance to LIS

Collection of resources pertaining to library evaluation

We do not expect our learner to travel down our same path as librarian or researcher but to become independent knowledge seekers. There is no right or wrong process of research, although there are many heuristics we can pass on. Applicable use of information requires that we see knowledge acquisition as amorphous and changing. As librarians, so we are too. Let us teach those who come to us our strengths, not our past.

Summary of Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries by Robert S. Taylor

Tools for teaching info literacy skills

Teaching and instruction tips