[Web4lib] No library resources on list of top 100 learning tools

Karen Harker Karen.Harker at UTSouthwestern.edu
Wed Aug 8 16:12:22 EDT 2007


As I responded to this story, this is a list of "tools", not "resources"
(Wikipedia and Google Scholar, aside), as noted by Mr. Ball.  Libraries
have traditionally provided access to primary and secondary resources,
and the key tools we provide are not so much learning tools, but finding
tools.  Now, that should not exclude libraries from developing and
providing learning tools, but exclusion from this list does not
necessarily indicate we have bad tools, just tools for different
purposes.  
 
 
 
Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/ 

>>> On 8/8/07 at 2:37 PM, in message
<259869.14370.qm at web57101.mail.re3.yahoo.com>, "B.G. Sloan"
<bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

  Interesting blurb from Brock Read at the Chronicle of Higher
Education:
   
  http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2288 
   
  Basically there are no library resources on The Centre for Learning &
Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning. 
   
  Steven Bell suggests at ACRLog (http://tinyurl.com/2rxvmk) that it
may be "a case of our failing to create awareness about these resources
to the faculty and researchers who should identify them as valuable
e-learning resources."
   
  But Read (referring to comments by Stephen Downes, a senior
researcher for Canada’s National Research Council) suggests that perhaps
"the lack of library services on the list could be evidence of bad
tools, not a lack of publicity."
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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