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Information Literacy

means that you are skilled in your abilities to:

  1. determine the extent of information needed

  2. access the needed information effectively and efficiently

  3. evaluate information and its sources critically

  4. incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base

  5. use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

  6. understand ethical, legal, economic, and social issues of
    accessing and using information.

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Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). |Top |
http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html#ildef

Basic Internet searching. |Top|
http://marylaine.com/basic.html

A high-power tutorial on information literacy from Queensland University of Technology library. |Top|
http://pilot.library.qut.edu.au/

Finding information on the Internet: a tutorial from UC Berkley |Top|
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

A primer for those new to searching the Internet or those using only one search source. An 11 page pdf white paper (692KB) as well as audio and video.  |Top|
http://www.searchingtheinternet.info/ 

NoodleTools is a free suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with online research. (search engines, finding relevant sources, citing sources in MLA style) Try the link NoodleBib Express to compare individual citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian format. |Top|
http://www.noodletools.com/

 

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