1. Information Literacy CSC 152*
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Information Literacy CSC 152
Prepared By:
La Salle University
Connelly Library
Reference Department
August 7, 2000
Shortened by
Michael Redmond
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2. Information Literacy CSC 136/151/152*
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Information Literacy CSC 136/151/152
OBJECTIVE - Students will learn to select, search and evaluate information needed for their academic, professional and personal lives.
Welcome the audience to the presentation.
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3. What Students Will Learn
Information Seeking Strategies
Location and Access
Evaluation
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4. Why Teach Information Literacy?
CHE
MSA
According to the ACRL Standards
and the Commission on Higher Education:
“Each institution should foster optimal use of its learning resources through strategies and initiatives designed to help students develop information literacy….”
Commission Higher Education
Middle States Association (1994 pp )
Plus – information explosion must be dealt with
information is power
too much information is overwhelming
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5. *
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Information Cycle
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6. Information Cycle Ideas that have been generated*
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Information Cycle
Ideas that have been generated
Primary and secondary materials
Presentations of the research results
Conference papers
Journal articles
Monographs
Periodical indexes
Facts standardized in reference sources such as encyclopedias, handbooks, textbooks, etc
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7. Association of College and Research Libraries*
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Information Literacy
A set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.”
Association of College and Research Libraries
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8. Information Literacy Components
Know when information is needed.
Select the appropriate resources.
Search for the information.
Evaluate the information found.
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9. The Information Literacy Process
Formulate and state your research question
Define an information need
Formulate
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10. The Information Literacy Process
Develop a search strategy for the required information
Strategy
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11. The Information Literacy Process
Locate and retrieve information (decide what resources you are going to use)
locate
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12. The Information Literacy Process
Organize Information
Evaluate
Analyze
Judge the information found
organize
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13. The Information Literacy Process
Create and Communicate Information
Use facts and other data to synthesize your findings to produce some kind of document i.e., research paper, chart, graph, etc.
create
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14. The Information Literacy Process
Understand the ethical, legal and sociopolitical issues connected with information use, i.e., plagiarism, copyright.
Ethics
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15. The Information Literacy Process
Valuable Asset To Lifelong Learning
Formulate
Strategy
Locate
Organize
Create
Ethics
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16. CARDS Credibility Accuracy Relevancy Dates Sources
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17. Electronic Resources What is a database?*
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Electronic Resources
What is a database?
What are the electronic resources available through the campus network?
What is the internet?, WWW?, Netscape?.
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18. Library Homepage Database Library Internet Resources Record
Fields
Keywords
Words
Library Internet Resources
Database Structure
Hierarchical organization
Arranged by subject categories/subject headings
Focused
Information peer reviewed
Identifies scholarly publications
Authoritative
Professional indexing and abstracting
Consistent search terminology
Boolean operators are fully supported
Quality control
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19. Library Homepage Database Library Internet Resources Record
Fields
Keywords
Words
Library Internet Resources
Database Structure
AUTHOR: Leavitt, Neal.
TITLE: Domain name solution causes new problems.
SOURCE: Computer v. 32 no10 (Oct. 1999) p il.
STANDARD NO:
DATE: 1999
PLACE: United States
RECORD TYPE: art
CONTENTS: feature article
ABSTRACT: The ongoing controversies besetting the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are discussed. ICANN
was set up by the Department of Commerce in an attempt to
solve the continuing controversy over the Internet's domain-
name registration system. It is a nongovernmental, nonprofit
agency that manages a newly privatized and competitive system
for registering, coordinating, and maintaining Internet domain
names. Unfortunately, ICANN has been unable to resolve some
of its disputes with Network Solutions, the company that used
to be the sole registrar of domain names, and is operating at
a deficit.
SUBJECT: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Internet addresses.
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20. Library Homepage Library catalog http://www.lasalle.edu/library
Electronic databases – see two slides forward
Other connections, i.e, search other catalogs, government sites
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21. Library Internet Resources
Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
Catalog
You may search for library materials using the following indexes:
Author
Author/Title
Title
Periodical title
Keywords
Subject headings
Call numbers
Other standard numbers
Reserve materials
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22. Library Homepage Library Internet Resources Databases Lexis-Nexis
ProQuest
FirstSearch
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23. Library Homepage Library Internet Resources Database Selection
Subject area covered
Dates of coverage
Frequency of updates
Accuracy/credibility of citations
Sources of database records
Availability of source documents
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24. Database Search Strategies
State Search Questions
Identify Keywords or Phrases
Insert Boolean Operators and other search features, i.e., truncation, adjacency, etc.
Execute the Search Strategy
Strategies are transferable from database to database.
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25. Boolean Operators AND is used more often than OR and NOT
Algebraic equations AND, OR, NOT applied to the search process
AND is used more often than OR and NOT
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26. Boolean Operators AND OR NOT eliminates Narrows Broadens Eliminates
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27. Database vs. Internet internet Database Record Fields Keywords Words
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28. Library Homepage Library Internet Resources Web Sites & Search Tools
Connect to Other Libraries
Internet Subject Guides Search Engines & Popular Directories
Web Tutorials
Quick Reference Sites
Government Sites
How to Cite Online & Print Resources
More Resources for Evaluating Internet Information
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29. Library Homepage
Web Search Engines and Directories: Google, WebTop, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot
Large file of Web sites/links
Searchable by every word in a document
Best for finding images or a specific piece of information
Boolean Operators not consistently effective from Search Engine to search engine – in comparison to DBs
Make frequent changes without prior notification
Not always current or up-to-date
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30. Library Homepage
Web Search Engines and Directories: Google, WebTop, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot
Little quality control
No control on the number of sites retrieved
Minimum human input
Default search is generally more information
Semi functional advanced search features
Sometimes leads to dead sites
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31. Evaluation of Resources
Not free vs free
Supersites
Content sites (primary or secondary)
Bibliographic sites
Full text sites
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32. Ethical Issues Associated with Electronic Searching
Plagiarism
Copyright (Fair Use)
Intellectual Freedom
Privacy
Security Issues
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