Information Competency

Standards and Guidelines

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: from ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries)

Information Competency: a comprehensive website.

Tutorials

Research Blueprint : an interactive tutorials from the University of Dayton Research Library, providing easy to understand research process with multi-media presentation.

California State University Information Competence: the nine online tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on Information Competence.

Basic Information Competence Requirement: at SFSU with a tutorial

Tilt : the University of Texas System Digital Library tutorial prepares users to explore and research in the online world.

Evaluating Resources

A Student's Guide to Research with the World Wide Web: Learn to evaluate different types of websites for relevance, authority, and accuracy.

Web Resource Evaluation Techniques: a PowerPoint Presentation on Web Resource Evaluation Techniques and suggestions for teaching.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:uses some fictitious examples to prove that evaluating a web site requires good critical thinking skills.

ICYouSee: a guide to critical thinking about what you see on the Web.