---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [DDN] A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21stCentury From: "David P. Dillard" Date: Sun, June 18, 2006 6:21 pm This recently released report is featured in a post on Net-Gold in which I also discuss the importance of teaching end users and in particular students regarding bibliographic database use resources and skills. LIBRARY: ISSUES: REPORT: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/13336

From my comments:

"One critical problem in American education and in our understanding of the digital divide is the almost complete failure in K-12 and undergraduate college programs is the lack of in depth training in the use of bibliographic databases now provided by many public and most academic libraries with the result that Americans who use the internet rely on search engines like Google, but not even Google Books or Google Scholar, to do research or learn or self educate themselves. " http://snipurl.com/rxlw Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne@temple.edu Net-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html General Internet & Print Resources http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp http://www.learningis4everyone.org/ http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne Educator-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request@mailman.edc.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.