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Information Literacy: Skills You Should Have At Graduation.

Information Literacy

Information Literate Student:

Can Judge–

    The information literate student judges the type and amount  of information needed for a specific purpose.

Can Access–

    The information literate student designates the correct information retrieval tools (www or library databases) and designs effective and efficient search strategies for those tools.

Can Critically Evaluate–

    The information literate student peruses the amassed information for value and integrates this into his own knowledge base.

Can Create–

    The information literate student examines and consolidates his and other researchers  ideas in such a way that the end product is a new information entity.

Can Ethically & Legally Retrieve & Use Resources.–

    The information literate student ethically and legally makes use of collected information and technology. The student understands the economic, social and legal ramifications of not doing so.

 

 

 

See Standards & Guidelines

From: ALA & ACRL