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2009
Hoffman, Cameron, Polkinghorne, Sarah
How are information literacy practitioners discussing Wikipedia? Just as important is this question: what do these discussions say about us as teachers? This article will consider these questions and reflect on their implications for our work.
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The “user turn” in practice: information behaviour researchers’ constructions of information users
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Julien, Heidi, McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.), Polkinghorne, Sarah, Chabot, Roger
Introduction. This study examines how "users" (i.e., research participants) are constructed in the empirical research reported at the ISIC [Information Seeking in Context] conference between 1996 and 2016 (n=194). Method. The study uses content analysis to examine variables relating to...
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2015-09-09
Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with effective entertaining. This way of thinking can be referred to as a “discourse of edutainment.” It underpins some of the publications and conversations that encourage librarians to make their...