Information Competency Information on the Web

Online Tutorials:

• Information Competency Tutorial (Santa Ana College's Neally Library) (http://ext.sac.edu/academic_progs/library/informationcompetency/) – An online information competency tutorial.
• OASIS (San Francisco State University) (http://oasis.sfsu.edu) – An online information competency tutorial.
• Bruin Success with Less Stress (UCLA) (http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/) – An online tutorial designed to help students learn about academic integrity, citing sources, and intellectual property.
• The Internet Detective: Wise Up to the Web (The Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, UK) (http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective) – An online tutorial designed to help students learn to evaluate the Web. Please note that this is a UK tutorial so you will notice spelling and grammar that is not commonly used in American English.

General Information:

• Implementing the Information Competency Requirement in the California Community Colleges: A Chronology of Selected Sources (http://www.topsy.org/PAICChronology-1.pdf) – (paper by Fred Brose, March 2002)
• Information Competency in the California Community Colleges (http://www.topsy.org/infocomp.html)
• Information Competency Resolution - Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges (http://www.topsy.org/resolution.html) – Resolution passed in April 2001.
• Information Competency Standards: Association of College and Research Libraries (http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html) – National Standards

 

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