My Job is What? Reference Sources and Services in a 21st Century Learning Commons
I like telling my students about how I had to research “back in the day” because they think I’m from the stone age. I clearly, and rather fondly remember the times the whole class got to go down to the library to research. We gravitated first to the encyclopedias (there were several copies back in those days) and took notes on our loose leaf. From there we headed to the card stacks to hunt for books on the topic of our research. And since inevitably every student was learning the same thing, we shared books, shared notes, and were not allowed to remove anything from the library. The computer lab was for learning typing (the internet was not a thing yet), so our projects were hand written, over and over again until we made no mistakes. Photo by James L.W on Unsplash I’m only 43. That really wasn’t that long ago. Times have changed around the library these days, and the biggest catalyst to change is this Age of Information (or age of misinformation) that we are living in. Students ...