Here\’s A Chronicle of Higher Education story on A report released Wednesday shows that students in a course at Cornell University have generally used fewer and fewer scholarly materials in their library research in the past six years. But the professor who teaches the course reversed the trend by providing a few clear guidelines in term-paper assignments.
You can read it Online, assuming you have access to Project Muse.
\”Now here comes a study that points directly to an effective outcome achieved through librarian-faculty cooperation,\” Steven J. Bell says, with minimal changes to the professor\’s assignments. \”This is a great opportunity for librarians to take it to their faculty and say, Look at this.\”
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