Information Literacy?

What is information literacy?

-the ability to determine what information you need- knowing what you don't know
-being able to find out who has the information you need
-once you find the information - is it really what you need, is it correct
- then combining what you learned with what you know
- using that new pool of information to accomplish something

Being able to read words and getting the meaning from them is one form of literacy.
Being able to "read" the pictures used to tell a story on TV or in a commercial is another form of literacy.
Knowing what you don't know and how to fill that gap is Information Literacy!

Are you information literate?

Breaking ground!

Today is a big day in the life of North Metro Technical College. We are breaking ground for an Allied Health building! This is the first "real" building to be added to the campus since the school was built.

Ground breaking ceremonies will be held at 1:30. You can see the tent for the dignitaries (including Governor Perdue) from I-75 between exits 277 and 278!

What do I have?

And how do I go about finding some answers? If you have a health problem and wonder who can answer your questions....here is a site (on the web and linked in GALILEO ) where you get links to authoritative organizations:

The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Knowing where to go to get answers is half the battle!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

"Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s."

EBSCO is providing this database at no cost, as a gift to Librarians.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

First Day of the Quarter

The parking lot is filling up with eager students. The first days of the quarter are full of positive energy.

Who?

Literature Online (LION) is the place to go to find authoritative information about authors and their work:

"Welcome to Literature Online, a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 62 new and revised biographies; 10 new full-text journals; new releases of African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama; additional Shakespeare editions..."

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.