Information Pathways
A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy
2nd Edition
Published on 23. March 2010
154 pages
978-0-8108-7427-5 (ISBN)
Description
With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy is designed to serve as a textbook for courses that address the need of college students to develop a basic knowledge of the complex matrix of core resources for the retrieval, management, and exploitation of information. This book shows students how to:
.Build effective search strategies for solving information problems
.Evaluate and use information and information sources
.Apply information skills to the writing process
.Be at ease with numeric information
.Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving
.Maintain their new fluency with information
Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.
.Build effective search strategies for solving information problems
.Evaluate and use information and information sources
.Apply information skills to the writing process
.Be at ease with numeric information
.Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving
.Maintain their new fluency with information
Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-7427-5 (9780810874275)
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Book
03/2010
Scarecrow Press
€86.80
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Person
Crystal Fulton is a faculty member at the School of Information & Library Studies, University College Dublin, where she teaches information finding and evaluating skills to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Information Horizon
- CHAPTER 2. The Complex World of Information
- CHAPTER 3. Finding Factual Information
- CHAPTER 4. Selecting and Navigating Electronic Information Systems
- CHAPTER 5. Practices of Information Organization and Access
- CHAPTER 6. Channels of Communication
- CHAPTER 7. Researching for Writing
- CHAPTER 8. Counting on Our Numeric Literacy
- CHAPTER 9. Putting Our Information Skills to Use
- CHAPTER 10. Maintaining Information Literacy Levels in a Changing World
- CHAPTER 11. It's a Wrap! Some Final Thoughts on Finding and Using Information
- Sources for Further Exploration
- Index
- About the Author
