Valencia College Leverages Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center to Empower Students in Their New Student Experience Course: Q&A
Valencia College, a public college with campuses in Orlando and other parts of central Florida, is a subscriber of Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center. We recently had the pleasure to speak with Lianna McGowan, Faculty, New Student Experience, and librarians Courtney Moore and Chris Wettstein about how they use Ferguson’s—specifically in their New Student Experience (NSE) […]
Celebrating 95 Years of The Great Gatsby: Why We’ve Added the Full Text of Gatsby to Bloom’s Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is not only one of the greatest of all American novels but also far and away the most popular in high school literature classes. Over the past few years, users of the Bloom’s Literature database have searched for The Great Gatsby almost three times as often as they’ve searched […]
How to Improve Teacher-Student Communication in Virtual Classrooms
With home working and remote learning on the rise, it’s an important time to consider whether you are optimizing teacher-student communication. Learning institutions, teachers, and students have all had to adapt to a changing landscape. What’s great, however, is that teleconferencing, video apps, and call center solutions have enabled learning centers to provide a virtual […]
Library Journal Names Credo Reference to Its “Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries for 2020”
Infobase is honored to announce that Library Journal has named Credo Reference one of its Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries for 2020, in the General Reference category. Per Library Journal, each database included on that list features “a user-friendly design, reliable scholarship, and relevance for patrons with a wide range of research skills.” […]
Supporting Information Literacy in the Social Sciences: An Interview with Librarian Melissa Cardenas-Dow
With more emphasis on data and numbers, the fields in social sciences are becoming more interdisciplinary-based with focuses on research methods and data collection plans. But what does that mean for instruction librarians supporting these research areas? Social sciences can include history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, women’s studies, geography, political science, economics, and more. […]
6 Tips to Build and Manage a Digital School Library
As students transition further away from physical learning resources and deeper into the online educational realm, digital libraries represent the future of learning for coming generations. There are several reasons for this change, which range from better access to a greater spectrum of choice. But before we dive into why and how digital libraries can […]
How to Plan a Comprehensive Professional Development Strategy
If you’re struggling to motivate yourself and you feel as though you’re stuck in a career rut, then it’s time for you to take action. Some of the most inspirational figures of this generation swear by planning for a brighter future. They don’t necessarily believe in luck. Instead, they work on their skills, plans, and […]
Supreme Court Term Limits: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Supreme Court Term Limits: Should U.S. Supreme Court Justices Have Term Limits? SUPPORTERS ARGUE U.S. Supreme Court justices have become too powerful and too divorced from the will of the American people. Term limits would depoliticize the confirmation process, ensure a diversity of viewpoints among justices, and make the Court […]
How to Incorporate News Literacy into Any Curriculum and Be Confident in Evaluating News Content from Any Source
Though media and information literacy have been taught in various pedagogical settings in the past, the task had mostly fallen to those whose training was directly related to it, such as librarians and professors of media literacy or mass communications. However, today, the proliferation of misinformation has forced educators in totally different fields to address […]
Teaching About Conspiracy Theories and Memes: The Internet’s Most Outlandish and Compelling Content
In this blog series, I have referred several times to the concept of “modern challenges” to teaching news literacy, and at the risk of sounding repetitive, I will refer again to this blog’s topic as a “modern challenge.” There are many modern challenges because so many aspects of our information environment are new. Two particular […]
Facing Polarization Head-On: Strategies for Discussing Difficult Political Topics When Teaching News Literacy
There are a number of challenges to teaching news literacy today, not least of which is that news literacy inherently involves reading, well, the news. As we all know, our current news environment is highly polarizing, which is one of the very reasons it is important to teach news literacy. Consequently, teaching about bias and […]
You Say Fake News, I Say Misinformation: What’s in a Term
Why Is the Term “Fake News” Problematic? You may have heard the term “fake news” in recent years used to describe misrepresented or falsified information. The problem of inaccurate and unreliable information spreading, particularly online over social media, is indeed significant. However, the term “fake news” is problematic for several reasons. While some users may […]
