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Dave's Law

May 11th, 2012
by Dave Pattern.

I'd love to have a law named after me, so here goes:

Dave's Law

users should not have to become mini-librarians in order to use the library

If you ever find yourself needing to invoke Dave's Law, please let me know :-)

Posted in: Library Stuff.

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3 Comments

  1. Paul S. says:
    May 11, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    But Dave! But Dave! What about "information literacy"!? Hmmmmmmm?

  2. Dave Pattern says:
    May 11, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    Isn't Info Lit about evaluating the information you find, rather than just learning how to search a dozen different database interfaces using Boolean or learning what all the library terminology means?

  3. Roddy MacLeod says:
    August 9, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Information literacy, I suggest, should be about awareness of information tools and their coverage etc, plus, as you say, evaluating information. It shouldn't be about learning how to use tools, click by click. Yuck – I used to hate it when I was supposed to teach that sort of thing to students. Totally pointless in most cases anyway, as the interfaces would regularly change.