Posts Tagged ‘Informaiton Literacy’

Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual and Textual Cues to Assess Credibility on Health Websites

One of the most important literacy skills in today’s information society is the ability to determine the credibility of online information. Users sort through a staggering number of websites while discerning which will provide satisfactory information. In this study, 70 college students assessed the credibility of health websites with a low and high design quality, […]

Rethinking Information Literacy in a Globalized World

As a profession, librarians have an important and unique role to play in higher education in producing information literate students equipped to be successful in a complex, twenty-first century global society. It is our contention that our guiding professional information literacy definitions and standards need to be reconsidered in order to remain relevant within the […]

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