College Students Can't Search Effectively
Submitted by Blake on November 17, 2006 - 7:52am
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shoe writes "Via Slashdot comes an article confirming something we as librarians see every day on the front lines... People (in this case, college students) are unable to evaluate web resources for things like objectivity, timeliness or audience. And (don't scream) they can't narrow down a search. Who'd a thunk it?"
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Shocking
Taser them until they learn proper search technique. If they can't use Dialog commands such as w/5 then zap them:)