“Chasing Our Long Tails”
Earlier this week Barbara Fister posted a really good essay on ACRLog, in which she uses a recent study about how the Internet has changed citation patterns as a jumping-off point for a discussion of undergraduate research habits. She has a number of thoughtful and provocative things to say about how students cope with information overload and how library tools could be improved to help them find the materials they need. I’d like to pull a quotation that sums up her argument, but the essay is really rich, so you should just go read it yourself!
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