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With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital for the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as for 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 college students' need to develop 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 efficient problem solving
Maintain 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 in formation.
Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction: The Information Horizon 1
2 The Complex World of Information 5
3 Finding Factual Information 17
4 Selecting and Navigating Electronic Information Systems 39
5 Practices of Information Organization and Access 57
6 Channels of Communication 67
7 Researching for Writing 83
8 Counting on Our Numeric Literacy 99
9 Putting Our Information Skills to Use 113
10 Maintaining Information Literacy Levels in a Changing World 123
11 It's a Wrap! Some Final Thoughts on Finding and Using Information 133
Sources for Further Exploration 137
Index 141
About the Author 145
Overview
With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital for the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as for 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 college students' need to develop basic knowledge of the complex matrix of core resources for the retrieval, management, and exploitation of ...