Reading Assignment # 4
The Infodiet

I mostly agree with this article, I believe our generation of students has become lazy when it comes to researching. I am a Google searcher myself, but that’s only when I am not given the challenge by my professors. When my art history teacher gave us our syllabus last semester, I saw that our final project was a research paper/ presentation. What put me into panic mode was that we had to get our sources strictly from the library, no internet citing. This seemed like the most awful thing to me at first, but when the time came to start researching, I found myself not only reading up on my subject, but so many others, and fully enjoying it. Now when I’m assigned any research paper, I try to find actual books to get my information from. There’s no doubt its not credible, and I always end up actually learning and enjoying the assignments. I liked in this particular article how librarians were the original search engines. That is so true. I couldn’t believe to hear that students actually responded to a question with “our campus has a library?” and “can you Google-ize that for me?” This is embarrassing for our generation. I have never really used the library database, only because like he says in the article, it is quite confusing. I use it to look up a book I need, but never have messed around with search databases, or catalogs. So I do agree that that could be made a lot simpler, then more students would rely on databases instead of always counting on google.