[Sig-bwp] Missing in Action: Library Resources

[Gerry Mckiernan]

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***

Colleagues/

August 8, 2007

**A List Without Libraries**

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies* list of Top 100
Tools for Learning - culled from top-10 charts created by e-learning
experts - names a wide array of tech tools that professors have come to
love. Among the items that made the cut are Web browsers, e-mail
clients, RSS feeders, blogging programs, and, of course, Microsoft*s
evergreen PowerPoint presentation software.

But online library resources, which would seem like a good fit for
e-learners, are notably absent from the master list. What gives?
*It*s not as if the responding experts ignored
information-retrieval tools,* writes Steven Bell at ACRLog. *Both
Google and Google Scholar are on the top-100 list. And it*s not as if
these experts wouldn*t know something about library databases.*

[MORE]

[ http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2288 ]

The List [ http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html ]

Surprised?

Even More Reason To Go Where Many Patrons Are ? ... Social Networking
Sites !

[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ]

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

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