Google and Beyond: Librarians' Expert Advice on Research
Information Literacy: The Road to Student Success
1. CYNTHIA ROBERTS KAREN QUINN-WISNIEWSKI Information Literacy: The Road to Student Success
2. What are some characteristics of an information literate student?
3. Official Definition … an intellectual framework for identifying, finding, understanding, evaluating and using information. It includes determining the nature and extent of needed information; accessing information effectively and efficiently; evaluating critically information and its sources ; incorporating selected information in the learner’s knowledge base and value system; using information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose… Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education: Eligibility Requirements and Standards for Accreditation, 2002
Recognize: a term paper? A speech? Statistics? How many resources, the kinds? What type of source will give them the best information?
EVEN MORE NECESSARY TODAY DUE TO HIGH VOLUME OF INFO SOURCES – skills like knowing which source for buying a car or voting
Accreditation: looking for evidence of information literacy activities NOT collection, etc in libraries
Wikis, yahoo ask, twitter, social sites all user content
Search engines SELL advertising. Google’s hierarchy of links: more linked to higher in search results., also wikipedia self-promoted to the top of a search result due to inter-linking
Our home page include search boxes to the ProQuest database
