Beyond Google

Published by Martin De Saulles | Filed under Announcements

Jackie Chelin (University of the West of England) and I have produced a short (10 minutes) video titled: “Beyond Google: Developing Training Skills for Library and Information Students in Their Work With the Google Generation” (see below). The video outlines, through interviews with academics, librarians and students, some of the issues surrounding how students use the Internet as a research tool. It offers suggestions for developing and delivering training sessions for end users to help them look beyond mainstream Internet search engines and to explore subscription-based databases. The production was funded by the Higher Education Academy and I will be talking about it at the HEA ICS Conference in Liverpool later this month.