Suggested Readings
ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000). Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education [Online]. Chicago: The Association of College and Research
Libraries.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm [Accessed 31 August
2005].
ALA: American Library Association. (1989). Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. Final
Report [Online]. Chicago: American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm
[Accessed 31 August 2005].
Bergart, Robin. (2002). “An Exploration of the Impact of Electronic Resources on Undergraduate
Research” Feliciter Vol. 48, no.4, 181-4.
Burton, Vicki T. and Scott A. Chadwick. (2000). "Investigating the Practices of Student
Researchers: Patterns of Use and Criteria for Use of Internet and Library Sources," Computers
and Composition Vol. 17, no. 3, 309-28.
Crawford, Walt. (2004). “Meta, Federated, Distributed: Search Solutions,” American Libraries,
Vol. 35, no. 7, 80.
D'Esposito Joann E. and Rachel M. Gardner. (1999). "University Students' Perceptions of the
Internet: An Exploratory Study," Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 25, no. 6, 456-61.
Dorner, Daniel G. and AnneMarie Curtis. (2003). “A Comparative Review of Common User
Interface Software Products for Libraries,” Wellington, New Zealand: School of Information
Management, Victoria University of Wellington, June 2003.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/CUI_Report_Final.pdf
[Accessed 31 August 2005].
Elliott, Susan A. (2004). “Metasearch and Usability: Toward a Seamless Interface to Library
Resources,” Anchorage, AK: University of Alaska, August 2004.
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/tundra/msuse1.pdf
[Accessed 31 August 2005].
Frost, WJ (2004). “Do We Want or Need Metasearching?” Library Journal Vol. 129, no. 6, 68.
Gibbons, Susan. (2005). “Digital Libraries: Defining the Challenge in Library Course Management
Systems an Overview,” Library Reports, Volume 41, no.3.
Gordon, M (1986). “Article Access--Too Easy?” Serials Librarian Vol. 10, no. 1-2, 169-171.
Grassian, E.S. & Kaplowitz, J.R. (2001). Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice.
New York: Neal-Schuman.
Helfer, Doris and Wakimoto, J. C. (2005). "Metasearching: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of
Making it Work in Your Library,” Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, Vol. 13, no.
2, 40-41.
Lewis, N. (2002). “Talking About a Revolution? First Impressions of Ex Libris’s Metalib,” Ariande
[Online], 32. http://www.adriane.ac.uk [Accessed 31 August 2005].
Luther, Judy. (2003). “Trumping Google? Metasearching’s promise,” Library Journal [Online],
(16). http://www.libraryjournal.com [Accessed 31 August 2005].
McCaskie, Lucy. (2004). “What are the Implication for Information Literacy Training in Higher
Education with the Introduction of Federated Search Tools?” (paper)
http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dissertations/2003-04/External/McCaskie_Lucy_MALib.pdf
[Accessed 31 August 2005].
Mischo, William H. (2005). “Challenges and Influential Work” D-Lib Magazine Vol. 11, no. 7/8.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html
[Accessed 31 August 2005].
NISO: National Information Standards Organization. (2003). Metasearch Initiative [Online].
Bethesda, Maryland” National Information Standards Organization.
http://www.niso.org/committees/MS_initiative.html [Accessed 31 August 2005].
Pace, Andrew K. (2004). "Much Ado About Metasearch," American Libraries Vol. 35, no. 4, 92.
Sadeh, T. (2004). “The Challenge of Metasearching,” New Library World, Vol. 105,
no. 1198/1199, 104-112.
Tallent, E. (2004). “Metasearching in Boston College Libraries: a case study of user reactions,”
New library World Vol. 105, No. 1/2, 69-75.
Terrell, J. (2004). “Cross database searching: information literacy for the ‘real world’?”. In:
Lifelong Learning Conference 2004, 13-16 June 2004, Yeppoon, Australia. Yeppoon: Central
Queensland University.
http://lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2004/papers/terrell-133-paper.pdf [Accessed 31 August 2005].
Thompson, C. (2003). “Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for
Research,” Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 3, no 2, 259-68.
Webster, P. (2004). “Metasearching in an Academic Environment,” Online, Vol. 28, no. 2, 20-33.
Zimmerman, Devin. (2004). “Metasearching’s Teaching Moments”. Library Journal, Vol. 129, 54.