I notice that Tuesday’s ACRL blog post was discussing the desirability of librarians working with academics on facilitating information literacy. One of the prompts was that a couple of non-library academics in the USA (Rochelle Rodrigo and Susan Miller-Cochran) have published a book, The Wadsworth Guide to Research. I wondered what “Wadsworth” meant, but it simply appears to be the series imprint. I found a sample chapter at http://www.wadsworthmedia.com/marketing/sample_chapters/1413030327_ch09.pdf and other details are on the publisher’s site here. Its key target appears to be academics teaching US rhetoric and composition classes, but I think it could be useful outside the USA, and it is certainly (from the sample chapter) more visually engaging than similar books I have seen.I also found a video of Rodrigo and Miller-Cochran making a presentation (Use Wikipedia and YouTube in Research! Debunking the Library vs. Internet Research Dichotomy) in Second Life at http://media.nmc.org/2008/11/debunking-dichotomy.mov It is nice to see people being sensible about the uses of the internet and encouraging an evaluative approach, rather than a blanket condemnation of wikipedia etc. Photo by Sheila Webber: Iced berries, Budapest, December 2004 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog)

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