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Students And Documents: Mindsets And Outcomes, Terry Dwain Robertson
Students And Documents: Mindsets And Outcomes, Terry Dwain Robertson
Seminary Scholarship Symposium
The library contains documents in a variety of formats. As a matter of course, students access these documents as a normal feature of “getting” an education. This poster illustrates three mindsets students adopt as they engage with library documents.
1. Learning -- readers absorb the content into their knowledge base trusting the reliability and authority of the creator of the work. The mindset of the reader is passive. 2. Information Seeking -- readers have a question for which they are seeking an answer, and are assuming that someone who knows the answer has documented it where they can find it. …