Each month, we'd like to share with you some of our favorite recent reads. Enjoy!
Applying an Information Literacy Rubric to First-Year Health Sciences Student Research Posters. By Xan Goodman, John Watts, Rogelio Arenas, Rachelle Weigel, and Tony Terrell. The Journal of the Medical Library Association 106(1): 2018. Pages 108-112.
The authors collected 1,253 final poster projects created by first-year health sciences students and found that only 52% of students were proficient at selecting relevant sources for their projects. Additionally, 45% of students showed difficulty in correctly following the APA citation style.
The Spread of True and False News Online. By Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral. Science 359(6380): 2018. Pages 1146-1151.
Researchers studied how news stories were shared on Twitter between 2006-2017 and found that falsehoods were 70% more likely to be retweeted than the truth. They also found that robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that humans and not bots are responsible for the spread of false news.
It's All Relative? Post-Truth Rhetoric, Relativism, and Teaching on "Authority as Constructed and Contextual". By Andrea Baer. College & Research Libraries News 79(2): 2018.
"Authority is Constructed and Contextual." This is one of the six core Information Literacy concepts in the Frameworks document developed by the Association of College & Research Libraries. This article discusses the current debate within the library profession regarding whether or not this core concept addresses "post-truth" rhetoric.
The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2016. By Kevin Eagan, Ellen Bara Stolzenberg, Hilary B. Zimmerman, Melissa C. Aragon, Hannah Whang Sayson, and Cecilia Rios-Aguilar. UCLA: Higher Education Research Institute, 2017.
This study presents a picture of who our first-years are. Findings include the political polarization of these students (the study was done in the fall of 2016), and the increasing number of students with mental health issues. A summary of the findings may be found at: https://www.heri.ucla.edu/briefs/TFS-Brief-Report-2016.pdf
Setting, Elaborating, and Reflecting on Personal Goals Improves Academic Performance. By Dominique Morisano, Jacob B. Hirsh, Jordan B. Peterson, Robert O. Pihl, and Bruce M. Shore. Journal of Applied Psychology 95(2): 2010. Pages 255-264.
This study found that presenting students with a specific goal-setting intervention improved their academic performance.
How Well Do We Know Our Students? A Comparison of Students' Priorities for Services and Librarians' Perceptions of Those Priorities. By Brian W. Young and Savannah L. Kelly. Journal of Academic Librarianship 44(2): 2018. Pages 173-178.
This study looked at the gaps between what library services students think are important and what librarians think students want.
Focus on User Experience: Moving from a Library-Centric Point of View. By Jean E. Mclaughlin. Internet Reference Services Quarterly 20(1-2): 2015. Pages 33-60.
This article provides some background to support the importance of user-centered design for all types of library services and spaces and suggests ways for libraries to get to know their users.
Amazon Peer Review: Coming To a Preprint Near You. By Phil Davis. The Scholarly Kitchen: What's Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing. April 1, 2018.
Beginning in April 2018, the public will have the ability to rate and comment on manuscripts of scientific research articles through Amazon Peer Review. Proponents of open peer review applaud the new service while others are concerned about how it may be manipulated by bots or other malicious groups.
SoTL in the LIS Classroom: Helping Future Academic Librarians Become More Engaged Teachers. By Lindsay McNiff and Lauren Hays. Communications in Information Literacy 11(2): 2017.
This article explores the benefits of introducing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to library and information science students, as well as practicing academic librarians.
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