Prepared By:
La Salle University
Connelly Library
Reference Department
August 7, 2000 www.lasalle.edu/library
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OBJECTIVE - Students will learn to select, search and evaluate information needed for their academic, professional and personal lives.
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 Task Definitions
 Information Seeking Strategies
 Location and Access
 Use of Information
 Synthesis
 Evaluation
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CHE
MSA
According to the ACRL Standards http://www.ala.org/acrl.html
and the Commission on Higher Education:
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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. 15-16)
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“All ideas, facts, and imaginative works of the mind which have been communicated, recorded, published and/or distributed formally or informally in any format.”
Heartsill Young, ed., The ALA Glossary of
Library and Information Science (Chicago:
American Library Association, 1983), 117.
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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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Computer literacy is not the same as information literacy
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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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The Information Literacy Process
Adaptation of the
“Big Six Guide To
Information
Problem-Solving” and “Blooms
Taxonomy”
Formulate
Ethics
Create
Strategy
Locate
Organize
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The Information Literacy Process
Formulate and state your research question
Define an information need
Formulate
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The Information Literacy Process
Develop a search strategy for the required information
Strategy
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The Information Literacy Process
Locate and retrieve information (decide what resources you are going to use) locate
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The Information Literacy Process
Organize Information
 Evaluate
 Analyze
 Judge the information found organize
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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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The Information Literacy Process
Understand the ethical, legal and sociopolitical issues connected with information use, i.e., plagiarism, copyright.
Ethics
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The Information Literacy Process
Valuable Asset To Lifelong Learning
Formulate
Ethics
Create
Strategy
Locate
Organize
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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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Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
Database Structure
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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
Database
Record
Fields
Keywords
Words
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Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
Database
Database Structure
Record
Fields
AUTHOR: Leavitt, Neal.
TITLE: Domain name solution causes new problems.
SOURCE: Computer v. 32 no10 (Oct. 1999) p. 11-15 il.
STANDARD NO: 0018-9162
Keywords
DATE: 1999
PLACE: United States
RECORD TYPE: art
CONTENTS: feature article
Words
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 domainname 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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Library Homepage
 Library catalog http://www.lasalle.edu/library
 Electronic databases, FirstSearch, Lexis-Nexis,
ProQuest, etc.
 Other connections, i.e, search other catalogs, government sites
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Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
Catalog
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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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Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
 Databases
 Lexis-Nexis
 ProQuest
 FirstSearch
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Library Homepage
Library Internet Resources
Database Selection
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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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Database Search Strategies
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State Search Questions
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Identify Keywords or Phrases
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Insert Boolean Operators and other search features, i.e., truncation, adjacency, etc.
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Execute the Search Strategy
Strategies are transferable from database to database.
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Boolean Operators
 Algebraic equations
applied to the search process
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is used more often than
and
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Boolean Operators eliminates
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Do a simple search on Lexis/Nexis:
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MP3
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Display a record from the search results.
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Logon ProQuest from library homepage.
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Is ProQuest
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A database
 A search engine
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A collection of databases
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What is the purpose of this database?
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What type of material does it cover?
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Who produces it?
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Do a simple search on ProQuest:
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Mp3
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Look at how the results list differs from
Lexis/Nexis.
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Display a record from the search results.
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Logon FirstSearch from Library Homepage.
 Is FirstSearch
 a database
 a search engine
 a collection of databases
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Locate Applied Science & Technology Abstracts.
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What is the purpose of this database?
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What type of material does it cover?
 Who produces it?
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 Do a simple search on ApplSciAbs:
 MP3
 Display a record from the search results.
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What is the purpose of the abstract field?
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What is the purpose of the descriptor field?
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How can you locate the correct descriptor terms for your topic?
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Database
Record
Fields
Keywords
Words
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Library Internet Resources
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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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 C redibility
 A ccuracy
 R elevancy
 D ates
 S ources
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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
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Best for finding images or a specific piece of information
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Boolean Operators not consistently effective from Search Engine to search engine – in comparison to DBs
 Make frequent changes without prior notification
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Not always current or up-to-date
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Library Homepage
Web Search Engines and Directories:
Google,
WebTop, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot
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Little quality control
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No control on the number of sites retrieved
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Minimum human input
 Default search is generally more information
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Semi functional advanced search features
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Sometimes leads to dead sites
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Library Homepage
Web Search Engines and Directories
Exercise 1
Use Google to search for the word brothers
Compare results and different uses of word
Exercise 2
Right half of room search Yahoo
Left half of room search HotBot
Search for information literacy
Look at records and evaluate using CARDS
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Library Homepage
Web Search Engines and Directories
Exercise 3
Each person will use a different search to search for electronic commerce.
Compare results.
Exercise 4
Use a metasearch to locate information on the ethical issues related to mapping the human genome.
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 Not free vs free
 Supersites
 Content sites (primary or secondary)
 Bibliographic sites
 Full text sites
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Plagiarism
Copyright (Fair Use)
Intellectual Freedom
Privacy
Security Issues
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