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"Google Reigns Triumphant"?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative, Situated Information Literacy Instruction
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Leibiger, Carol A. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Literacy, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Problem Based Learning