Information Matters – Library and Information Studies at the University of Brighton

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.

We recently set up a YouTube channel to provide a central place for our video content. So far there are several videos posted to the channel showing teaching staff talking about their research and students talking about our courses. We will add more over the coming months. Visit the channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/infostudies
– you can also comment on the videos.