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Introduction to Information Literacy
Joke Webbink
Information Specialist Social Sciences
Information Literacy
• This introduction is meant for
• Graduate Seminar
• Maks Students
Information Literacy and Graduate Seminar (and MAKS)
• The Information Literacy course is a compulsory part of the Graduate Seminar (YSS 30803)
• Maks students are advised to do this course
What is Information Literacy?
• The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.
Information Literacy
• Information explosion– Written– Electronic (Internet)
• Information overload
Information Explosion– Written http://informationr.net/
Information Explosion– Electronic http://www.isc.org
Information overloadhttp://www.uky.edu/libraries/FindIt
Information overloadhttp://www.uky.edu/libraries/FindIt
The Web and The Library
The Library and The Web
Library• Selection• Organized• Permanent• Access free• Comprehensive• Complicated
WWW• No selection• Less organized• Not permanent• Access ???• Not comprehensive• Easy
Desktop library
Wageningen UR Desktop Library
http://library.wur.nl/desktop/
Overload in the desktop library?
• Where to start to find articles?• Electronic journals?• Catalogue?• Bibliographies?• Current research?
Bibliographies
• General versus subject oriented
• Level can be different:
scientific/ professional
• Different search platforms: WebSpirs, CSA, WoS, Scopus…...
• Overlap and additional
Finding information
What: Type of information,subject definition
Where: Library & the Web
How: Search strategy
Good search
• Finding the focus• Limitation: period, language, region• identifying key concepts • finding search terms (keywords)
What will you learn?
• Information sources
• How to search
• efficiently
• effectively
• basic search strategies
• In different databases
What will you learn
• Evaluating
• Referring, citing, quoting– literature lists– plagiarism
Learning method
• Study the Blackboard modules
• Do the quizzes
• For questions: e-mail to [email protected]
Working in BlackBoard
• How does it look like?• What can you do?• What must you do?
– Modules– Learning units: quizzes
• Your own responsibility……
When you have already done (some of) the modules
- Modules are updated
- Quizzes
- Information Literacy YES-60404 Academic Master Cluster
(Environmental Sciences)
How to get there?
• http://edu2.web.wur.nl– ECS52901_2006_2
OR
http://edu.web.wur.nl– Go to Eduweb– Your courses– ECS52901_2006_2
Graduate Seminar Students who have Finished?!
- send an e-mail to [email protected] and [email protected]
Important: subject of the e-mail: IL period 3
- after two weeks you can collect a signature from Hester Moerbeek, Leeuwenborch, room 2059
Maks Students who have Finished?!
- send an e-mail to [email protected] and to [email protected]
Important: subject of the e-mail: IL period 3
The library website is renewed
• And in January it will look like this:
Before you leave…
• Sign the registration list !!
Physical and Virtual Library
