I work at an academic/special library which offers students, instructors, and staff access to a selection of online databases — Ebscohost, Lexis-Nexis, Proquest, Hoover’s, among others. It’s interesting that although these resources are promoted, not only by library staff, but instructors as well, students continue to “google,” “yahoo,” and “MSN” their way to information that they have to work (evaluating and assessing) through to find what they need. This seems to also be true at the public library. Library research instruction is available, and provided as often as possible; however, acceptance of these credible and authoritative resources is slow to come. Well, there has to be a better way to promote these resources. At this point this is one way to have job security.
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