Librarians can help you find stuff, but who helps you organize it?
Lately I’ve been contemplating how much academic libraries should be involved in helping students learn to organize their research. Sure, we do information literacy, which apparently includes “information management strategies,” but from my experience that goes no further than how to use a citation manager to create a bibliography. I work mostly with graduate students, and as a graduate student myself, I’ve struggled with getting a handle on my sources. I started out as a “print everything” person, and fantasized about keeping a massive file cabinet with a single file for each reading (I know, I’m a dinosaur). I used a legal pad during classRead More →