Teaching Student Searchers

摘要

Much has changed in my 30 years of teaching library and information science (LIS) students about online searching. Certainly the specific systems and hardware have evolved but so has the role of the librarian; access, which is now 24/7; the sources, which are now often questionable; and users' expectations, which are that practically everything can be found online. At the annual meeting of the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in January, several sessions touched on the way we teach searching.