My colleague, Jenny just alerted me to this new example of plagiarism hitting the news – it’s always useful to have real examples to demonstrate to students what might happen!
Hadrian’s Villa, near Rome, July 2009
Over the last week, I have been running some workshops as part of our Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme. This particular workshop challenges PGs to start thinking of themselves as both producers and consumers of information and what it really means to be an information literate researcher. Interestingly, when they self assess their own IL level, very few give themselves top marks, so that gives us a starting point for discussion. We talk about way to get started with writing, thinking about writing book reviews or opinion pieces maybe and they think about their IPR rights, retaining their copyright, their views on Open Access publication and their responsibilities to their peers to cite correctly.
The Library in Hadrian’s Villa near Rome, July 2009
I still haven’t got into twittering about myself, but we have started to tweet in the Library. We’re tweeting separately about Science/ Engineering topics and Arts topics. I’m finding that it’s good fun to do, very quick and easy and a great way to communicate ephemeral pieces of information. At the moment we don’t have a mechanism in place to judge how effective it is – I’d be interested to know from others who are twittering about their library how they measure this. We can’t just count “followers” as you can still read the tweets and even set up an RSS feed from them, without being a follower.
A hot day in Florence, Aug 2009
Thanks to Jackie for alerting me to Educause’s report on Students and IT There’s a table (Table 4-5) in the report that depicts students’ perceptions of their information literacy skills – interesting!
Drinking fountain, Siena, Italy, July 2009
