HSLG Virtual Journal Club, 18 July 2024, 11:00 – 11:45am
Our next journal club meeting will be hosted by Delia Foley, Library Learning Support, SETU Libraries.
View Delia’s presentation slides
Article:
Lacey, P. (2022). Google is goodish: An information literacy course designed to teach users why Google may not always be the best place to search for evidence. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 39, 91–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.
Discussion Questions
- How do you deal with Google/Google Scholar in your library training?
- Discuss the good side to Google. Does being able to search Google transfer to being able to search library databases?
- Does Google Scholar and its Library Links feature lead students/researchers/healthcare staff to researching with library resources?
- Discuss the importance and value of accepting what students are using and working with that resource to guide students to library resources.
- The article highlights the need for a library training course to be “informative, but light-hearted” (p. 92). Do you have any suggestions on how to do this? What has worked for you?
Great presentation and discussion, thanks very much Delia! Re is G getting worse – they all are! Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-56063-7_4 (Not open access but is discussed widely, including on Mashable https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research and many other sources )
Re searching, I know you all know this already!! – but the Google Web link is handy: rather than the main Google search that gives you ‘People also searched for’, ‘People also ask’ and ‘Places’ (with a map filling up the page) and ‘Videos for a query result, it just gives links to websites in the results.
There should be a link to Web along with the other filter options (Images, Products, Books etc) under the search box. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gs2htv3ezltezmkpleaktsq6/post/3kshxyvttlu2z
Personal preference: To make Google Web my default Google search, I run a search (for any text at all, doesn’t matter) in normal Google, click the Web filter option, and I’ll get the results of that search filtered by G Web. I’ll then bookmark that page to my search engines bookmarks and call it Google Web. I click on that link rather than main Google then, so I don’t have to remember to click the Web filter link (or I’ll make it one of my homepages if I want it always there). It will have the text of whatever search I bookmarked it on in the text box, but ignore it, I write over that for today’s new search. Doesn’t matter what text you use to run the initial G Web search to save that link (but you can use something nice – kittens, say, roses, cake!) Won’t suits everyone’s needs, just another option for us.