Research
The ERIAL Project: Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries
Posted May 17th, 2010 by Andrew Asher, Lynda Duke and David Green
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Librarians and faculty often think they know how students conduct research, but when a group of five college and university libraries used anthropologists to observe and interview students at work, there were some interesting observations about what happens in the course of an assignment. In this article, the authors discuss the project rationale, the scope of the research and the instructive findings that will guide efforts on their campuses to strengthen students' information literacy skills and facility with academic research tools.
Who Uses Wikipedia.......According To Powerset
Posted September 12th, 2008 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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Ran across this blog post from Powerset concerning the usage of wikipedia by students in higher education. Once you get beyond the plug for Powerset, some rather interesting research results are presented.
The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative
Posted December 16th, 2007 by Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy L. Stinson, Johns Hopkins University
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Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.
The Daedalus Project
Posted September 26th, 2006 by Rachel Smith, NMC: The New Media Consortium
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This website is home to an ongoing study of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) players. MMORPGs, or MMOs, are a video game genre that allow thousands of people to interact, compete, and collaborate in an online virtual environment. Over the past 6 years, more than 40,000 MMORPG players have participated in the project by completing surveys about their playing style, habits, and preferences. Various topics have been examined, from gender-related motivation factors to the effect of running an in-game guild on one’s real life experiences. The results of the research are available as reports sorted by topic.
Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English
Posted December 11th, 2005 by Michael Roy, Middlebury College
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Oberlin's Library Director
talks about the importance of the Open Access movement to higher
education in general, and liberal arts education in particular, and
talks about what we can do to help this important movement succeed.
