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October is National Information Literacy Awareness Month
Introduction
Information
Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed,
understand how the information is organized, identify the best
sources of information for a given need, locate those sources,
evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is
the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.
It is
critically important to be information literate because we are
surrounded by an insurmountable amount of information in all
formats. Not all information is created equal: some is reliable but
most is biased, out of date, misleading or even false. The amount
of information available is going to increase along with the
technology used to access and manipulate it.
Information
Literacy skills are not only used in the academic settings. They’re
used every day in work environments as an employee finding,
evaluating and presenting job-related information; as a consumer
making decisions about which car or product to purchase; and a
citizen participating fully in society understanding issues and
voting.
The Gill
Library faculty at The College of New Rochelle is committed to
promoting these skills most especially through workshops,
course-specific library instruction and Hands-On-Help sessions. We
hope that the information below is helpful and encourage our
students, faculty and staff to contact us if they have any questions
about the services and resources we use to promote Information
literacy.
Selected Internet
Resources
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PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ALA ACRL Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education
National Forum on Information Literacy
S.O.S. for Information Literacy
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