1. Introduction to the Graduate Seminar Hester Moerbeek Coordinator Graduate Seminar hester.moerbeek@wur.nl

2. Introduction to Information Literacy Joke Webbink Information Specialist Social Sciences Joke.webbink@wur.nl

3. Information Literacy This introduction is meant for Graduate Seminar Maks Students

4. 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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. The Web and The Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. 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

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

25. Graduate Seminar Students who have Finished?! - send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl and hester.moerbeek@wur.nljoke.webbink@wur.nl hester.moerbeek@wur.nl Important: subject of the e-mail: IL period 3 - after two weeks you can collect a signature from Hester Moerbeek, Leeuwenborch, room 2059

26. Maks Students who have Finished?! - send an e-mail to joke.webbink@wur.nl and to martha.bloemberg@wur.nljoke.webbink@wur.nlmartha.bloemberg@wur.nl Important: subject of the e-mail: IL period 3

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

28. The library website is renewed And in January it will look like this:

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

31. Physical and Virtual Library