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An article appeared in yesterday's New York Times offering an interesting
perspective on the need for information literacy training.

Jimmie

Course Correction: Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea (Measuring
information literacy has begun with the announcement by the Educational
Testing Service announced that it has developed a test to measure students'
ability to evaluate online material.  The trusting nature of Internet users
in websites nature is partly a legacy of the print age which filtered
information through a publisher who decided they were worth printing and a
librarian who acquired them, or a professor who requested their purchase. 87
percent of search-engine users said they found what they were looking for
all or most of the time. 38 percent of search-engine users were aware of the
difference between unpaid and sponsored search results, and only 18 percent
could tell which was which. There are no such filters on the web. It is
suggested that instruction in information literacy will have to pervade
every level of education and every course in the curriculum)

New York Times. Feb. 13, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/weekinreview/13numb.html
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/weekinreview/13numb.html> 

Jimmie Epling, Regional Librarian

FIVCO/Big Sandy Regional Office

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

P.O. Box 370, 122 South Main Cross St. 

Louisa, KY 41230-0370

V: 606.638.4797  F:606.638.0586

jimmie.epling@ky.gov <mailto:jimmie.epling@ky.gov> 

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>An article appeared in yesterday's New York Times
offering an interesting perspective on the need for information literacy
training.</span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jimmie</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></font></b></p>

Course Correction: Teaching Students to
Swim in the Online Sea (Measuring information literacy has
begun with the announcement by the Educational Testing Service announced that
it has developed a test to measure students' ability to evaluate online
material.&nbsp; The trusting nature of Internet users in websites nature is
partly a legacy of the print age which filtered information through a publisher
who decided they were worth printing and a librarian who acquired them, or a
professor who requested their purchase. 87 percent of search-engine users said
they found what they were looking for all or most of the time. 38 percent of
search-engine users were aware of the difference between unpaid and sponsored
search results, and only 18 percent could tell which was which. There are no
such filters on the web. It is suggested that instruction in information
literacy will have to pervade every level of education and every course in the
curriculum)

New York Times. Feb. 13, 2005

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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/weekinreview/13numb.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/weekinreview/13numb.html</a></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 font-family:Arial'>Jimmie Epling</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, Regional Librarian</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FIVCO/Big Sandy Regional Office</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kentucky Department&nbsp;for Libraries and Archives</span></font></p>

P.O. Box 370, 122 South Main Cross St.&nbsp;

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial'>Louisa</span></font><font face=Arial><span
 style='font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><font face=Arial><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>KY</span></font><font face=Arial><span
 style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>41230-0370</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>V: 606.638.4797&nbsp; F:606.638.0586</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:jimmie.epling@ky.gov">jimmie.epling@ky.gov</a></span></font></p>

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