McGill

If we want our students to know and be able to apply the habits of effective writers, we need to explicitly teach them. The five minute mini lesson is the magic wand for helping students learn what good writers do.

Integrating Information Search into the Workflow Process
Typically information search is treated as a simple isolated event – insert some keywords into a box and examine an array of snippets, and the job is considered finished. But the search for information is more complex than that and remains unsupported by existing technologies that focus primarilyon tuning search algorithms.

My name is Amanda Halfpenny and I am the new president of the student chapter of the ABQLA at McGill for 2009-2010. Last week marked the beginning of a new school year and the Library and Information Studies program at McGill is teeming with new arrivals who all seem nervous but optimistic about this new stage in their lives.