1. Introduction to Information Literacy Joke Webbink Information Specialist Social Sciences October 2006

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

3. 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.

4. Information Literacy Information explosion –Written –Electronic (Internet) Information overload

5. Information Explosion –Written http://informationr.net/

6. Information Explosion –Electronic http://www.isc.org

7. Information overload http://www.uky.edu/libraries/FindIt

8. Information overload http://www.uky.edu/libraries/FindIt

9. The Web and The Library

10. The Library and The Web Library Selection Organized Permanent Access free Comprehensive Complicated WWW No selection Less organized Not permanent Access ??? Not comprehensive Easy

11. Desktop library Wageningen UR Digital Library http://library.wur.nl/desktop/

12. Overload in the desktop library? Where to start to find articles? Electronic journals? Catalogue? Bibliographies? Current research?

13. Bibliographies General versus subject oriented Level can be different: scientific/ professional Different search platforms: WebSpirs, CSA, WoS, Scopus…... Overlap and additional

14. Finding information What: Type of information, subject definition Where: Library & the Web How:Search strategy

15. Good search Finding the focus Limitation: period, language, region identifying key concepts finding search terms (keywords)

16. What will you learn? Information sources How to search efficiently effectively basic search strategies In different databases

17. What will you learn Evaluating Referring, citing, quoting –literature lists –plagiarism

18. Learning method Study the Blackboard modules Do the quizzes For questions: e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl

19. Working in BlackBoard How does it look like? What can you do? What must you do? –Modules –Learning units: quizzes Your own responsibility……

20. When you have already done (some of) the modules - Modules are updated -Quizzes - Information Literacy YES-60404 Academic Master Cluster (Environmental Sciences)

21. 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

22. Questions? Send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nljoke.webbink@wur.nl Joke Webbink, Leeuwenborch library, room 040

23. Finished?! - send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl and hester.moerbeek@wur.nljoke.webbink@wur.nl hester.moerbeek@wur.nl - after two weeks you can collect a signature from Hester Moerbeek, Leeuwenborch, room 2059

24. Where can you find me? Joke Webbink Room 040 Leeuwenborch library E-mail: joke.webbink@wur.nl

26. Before you leave… Sign the registration list !!

27. Physical and Virtual Library