Government Information For Economics Students

Government Information for Economics Students

Meghan EcclestoneFIS 2110: Information LiteracyWednesday, November 26, 2008

First: An aside...

Government Information for your Research: ECON 3124

Meghan EcclestoneInformation Literacy LibrarianRobarts Library, University of Toronto

Agenda

Government statistical information: Applications for your research

Specific Resource: OECD

Activity: Using the OECDStats database

Conclusions and questions

Question:

What is government information?

Any documents, publications or electronic information created or distributed by any governmental body

Question:

Why use government information?

Primary source of information

Relatively unbiased

Highly credible

OECD

What is the OECD?

What does the OECD do?

What sorts of topics do they cover?

Library Website:

www.library.utoronto.ca

Question:

Find the most recent expenditure figures for Canadian spending on health care. How does it compare to the United States?

Another aside...

Agenda

Government statistical information: Applications for your research

Specific resource: OECD

Activity: Using the OECDStats database

Conclusions and questions

Contact Information:

Meghan Ecclestone: meghan.ecclestone@robarts.ca

Government Information Centre: 5th floor, Robarts Library

Research Guides for government information: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/library_guides.cfm

Evaluation

Name: Meghan Ecclestone

Presentation: Government Information for Upper-year Economics Students

Question:

Find the most recent expenditure figures for Canadian spending on health care. How does it compare to the United States?

Another aside...

Agenda

Government statistical information: Applications for your research

Specific resource: OECD

Activity: Using the OECDStats database

Conclusions and questions

Contact Information:

Meghan Ecclestone: meghan.ecclestone@robarts.ca

Government Information Centre: 5th floor, Robarts Library

Research Guides for government information: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/library_guides.cfm

Evaluation

Name: Meghan Ecclestone

Presentation: Government Information for Upper-year Economics Students