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Library Information Literacy Tutorial

What is Information?

What is Information?


Anything you want or need to know. Information exists in all conceivable formats, from personal conversations with friends to scholarly research reports published in journals.

How do I find it?

The first step to finding information is to think about what information you need and decide where the best place to find it might be. This tutorial will get you started along some of the basic information-finding paths.

You are going to learn how and when to use the following:

  • reference sources
  • books
  • journal, newspaper, and magazine articles
  • web sites

    Let's start with reference sources...