- "Information Literacy" is best described as:
Your answer:
the ability to read complex documents
The ability to locate, evaluate and use information effectively
the ability to search the "free web" for information
the ability to summarize informatioon you read
- To locate a book on the shelf in the library you need:
Your answer:
The title of the book eliminating the initial article (a, an, or the)
Call number
Author's Name
ISBN number
- When searching the Internet, each underlined word or phrase is
Your answer:
a keyword search
a standard command
a subject search
a link to another web site or web page
- The broadest search available in an electronic database (online catalog, subscription database) is:
Your answer:
Keyword search
Author search
Subject search
Title search
- Information you find on the Internet
Your answer:
comes from many varied sources such as business, the government, or private citizens
is far more reliable than books and magazines
is required by law to be accurate, timely, and appropriate
is factual because the Internet is constantly monitored by world educational organizations
- An example of a biased Web site would be
Your answer:
an airline listing future flights for advance reservations
a drug company promoting a drug they produced
a national news site giving weather reports
a college library allowing access to its reference material
- To broaden a search, you would use the Boolean operator:
Your answer:
and not
or
not
and
- To narrow a search without eliminating a term, you would use the Boolean operator:
Your answer:
and
or
not
and not
- When searching a periodical index, you may wish to see the abstract of an article. AN ABSTRACT is defined as
Your answer:
a short, objective summary of an article
a printout containing critical reviews of the article
a list of information needed to locate a magazine, such as publication date, volume, and author
a complete, full-text reading of an article
- A magazine CITATION will usually show you:
Your answer:
summaries of current non-fiction books
choice of subject or keyword search
author, title, date, number of pages
full-text listing of a magazine article
- A ~(tilde) in the URL (address of a web page) indicates that the page is:
Your answer:
a page from a college or university
a govenment page
a personal page
a page evaluated for accuracy
- If you are unable to locate information on your topic, you may be using the wrong keyword/subject heading. A good way to proceed would be to
Your answer:
try another computer
stick with very broad terms and ideas
try to use a synonym in place of the keyword/subject word you were searching
give up and change your whole topic, then try again
- If you don't know anything about your topic, the best way to get started is to find background information in
Your answer:
any current biography
a print or electronic encyclopedia article
the vertical file
the fiction book section
- When searching a database, a truncation symbol can be placed at the end of a word stem in order to:
Your answer:
Retrieve records with alternative endings (i.e. teen, teens, teenager)
Ensure uniformity in the search
Abbreviate the search
Execute the search
- Which is potentially the most current or up-to-date source of information on any topic?
Your answer:
an article from a CD-ROM database
a reference book
an article or information from a World Wide Web site
a hard copy of a magazine
- When using the Internet as an information source, it is important to remember:
Your answer:
Sites on the "free web" are all checked for accuracy
All web sites are archived in the Invisible Web
"Authority" is the most important criteria for judging a web site
Sites on the 'free web' are better to use so you don't have to remember a login or password
- Criteria you should use to evaluate an information web site include all of the following EXCEPT
Your answer:
currency
brevity
authority
accuracy
- If you decide to use information from a website for your research project:
Your answer:
You can assume that all of the data or text is copyrighted
You do not have to give credit to your souces since information on the web is not copyright protected
You only have to cite text sources
You may use the text or graphics freely unless they are specifically labeled as being copyrighted
- Plagiarism is:
Your answer:
Failing to use the correct format when citing your sources
Using the ideas of another person in your work instead of using only your own ideas
Improperly interpreting the authors in your sources
Including the ideas of another person in your writing and failing to cite them properly
- What is the BEST way for you to get help with your research if you cannot find materials on your topic?
Your answer:
change your topic
go to another library
ask another student for help
ask the librarian for help