Introduction to Information Literacy

Joke Webbink

Information Specialist Social Sciences

October 2006

Information Literacy and Graduate Seminar

• The Information Literacy course is a compulsory part of the Graduate Seminar (YSS 30803)

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 Digital 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 joke.webbink@wur.nl

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

Questions?

• Send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl

• Joke Webbink, Leeuwenborch library,

room 040

Finished?!

- send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl and hester.moerbeek@wur.nl

- after two weeks you can collect a signature from Hester Moerbeek, Leeuwenborch, room 2059

Where can you find me?

• Joke Webbink

• Room 040 Leeuwenborch library

• E-mail: joke.webbink@wur.nl

Before you leave…

• Sign the registration list !!

Physical and Virtual Library