CRD Election Results

The results of the PaLA CRD elections are in. Linda Neyer was elected Vice Chair/Chair elect and Mary Lou Patrick was elected Secretary. Their terms begin in January 2011. Congratulations to both of you!

CRD officers for 2011:

Chair: Bonnie Oldham, Information Literacy Coordinator, The University of Scranton
Vice Chair: Linda Neyer, Health Sciences/Science Librarian, Bloomsburg University
Treasurer: Erin Dorney, Outreach Librarian, Millersville University
Secretary: Mary Lou Patrick, Reference Librarian, Altoona Campus, The Pennsylvania State University

Students: Web Savvy?

clipped from www.northwestern.edu

Not as Web Savvy as You Think

Young people give Google, other top brand search results too much credibility

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Google it. That's what many college students do when asked to read an excerpt of a play for class, write a resume or find the e-mail address of a politician.

They trust Google so much that a Northwestern University study has found many students only click on websites that turn up at the top of Google searches to complete assigned tasks. If they don't use Google, researchers found that students trust other brand-name search engines and brand-name websites to lead them to information.

The study was published by the International Journal of Communication.

Read the article.