An interesting post for academic librarians on the ACRL blog (with thoughtful comments on it too): Don't make it easy for them. Andy Burkhardt addresses the perennial talking point of when you stop actually doing the work for the student and start telling/teaching them how to do it for themselves http://acrlog.org/2011/01/04/dont-make-it-easy-for-them/Photo by Sheila Webber: winter tree (photoshopped)
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I wrote a follow up to this blog post which also generated some interested comments - see http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/2011/01/05/should-we-make-it-easy-for-them/
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