Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you prepare yourself for study on a research degree at a UK university.

The other day, I came across a pre-print article for C&RL that looked at the search effectiveness of different discovery tools, including EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon and Google Scholar. Eve...

Presentation from Internet Librarian West on strategies for supporting students in the library research process; based on Carol Kuhlthau's model

You get so much advice about life on campus, most of it hopelessly out-of-date. Here's what I'd have liked someone to tell me

Learn How To Make Students Better Online Researchers. Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students.

This presentation, in the HEA Innovation In The Assessment Of Social Science Research Methods series shows how Action Learning Sets are used within the Computin

Smart searching tips for both kids and adults -- straight from the pro.

Google has made it possible for us to have instant information gratification. Just start typing the first letters of your search word and the site intuits your question and offers you the smartest choice of answers.

Seems simple enough. But as quick and facile as the process is, there are ways to be even more efficient, more search-savvy. And it’s our responsibility to teach kids how to find and research information, how to judge its veracity, and when it’s time to ask for a grownup’s help