Welcome to Week 3 of Spring Quarter! I greatly enjoy surprising you, my patrons, with cool tips to support and enhance your research and information discovery. While I delight in your delight, I don’t want to keep these things a secret! Here are 10 things I want you to know about: I’m never too busy Read More…
Tag: evaluating information
Study on College Students’ use of News
Project Information Literacy (a nonprofit research institute that I work with) just released a large-scale study of how college students seek, interact with, and understand news. For this study, we surveyed just under 6,000 college students about how they encounter, evaluate, process, and share news in their daily lives. One of the major findings is Read More…
Evaluating Information
A recent New York Times article caught my attention: “Hoaxers Slip Brestaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals”, the title reads. What struck me, however, was not the provocative title, but rather the hoax itself. By getting a fake article published in a peer-reviewed journal, the hoaxters were purposefully showing that the cycle of fact-checking Read More…