Reading Report #4

This is another article about how my generation is not information literate. The article tells of how this generation is seen as better with technology except when it comes to doing scholarly research. College students tend to not use the resources that are given to them and use the more convient form of Google to do all their research. Colleges are making a push to get students more "Information Literate". They are hiring librarians for the sole purpose of being able to educate the students on their campus to use the research resources that are available to them. These resources primary involve databases that contain scholarly journals that have articles that students can use for their research. The article says that the more students learn of these sources the more "Information Literate" that they will become. This will help the current generation to educate future generations to actually know how to properly research a paper. The article goes on to tell of how this is not a new concept even though some librarians are acting like it is. The term of being information literate has been around since the 1980's for sure.
I guess since i have read like three articles about my generation not being about to do proper research then I should really start to believe it. I feel like many students would make more use of these databases if they had more education about them. If it wasn't for me taking this class then I would have never known of the datbases or how to use them. Maybe if part of freshmen seminar was used to educate about proper research and the use of these resources then more students would use them. If you get to a student early then that are alot more likely to make use of the information and the technology that they can use. If they get in to a pattern of using Google to research then their not going to be likely to change by the time their a junior or a senior. There is definately a problem with students not being able to do proper research but, it is partly the universities responsiblity to education the student so that they can use the resources that their money pays for.