Evaluation (Information Literacy)

Hey friends, this week has considered to be the last week. We really learnt alot of things from our respected lecturers, They were really extra ordinary lecturer.They  taught us much about Information Literacy.We will surely miss her a lot. I personally like her way of teaching. We also studied EVALUATION OF INTERNET SOURCES. She told us Criteria for evaluating Internet sources:

• Purpose
• Scope/Coverage/Comprehensiveness
• Authority
• Audience
• Information content
• Design and layout
• Access/Workability

Why we actually Evaluate?

• Because when we use a research or academic library, the books, journals and other resources have already been evaluated by a librarian or by a mechanism set up by a librarian.
• There are no filters in between us and the Internet

 She also highlighted about Audience and Authority which was a bit difficult.
In Information Content she taught us about following :

• Accuracy
• Currency
• Uniqueness

 Further she taught us about:

• Quality of writing
• Design and layout
• Organization
• Navigability 
• Style and functionality
• Colour 
• Multimedia
• Acess
• Ease of Use
• Searchability
• Browse ability
• Software Reliability
• Connectivity
• Cost
• Copy right
• Language 
• User Support and Criteria

In Conclusion She highlighted that on useful criteria for evaluating internet information sources:

Librarians and others working with Internet information resources should create and use lists of criteria appropriate to their users and subject areas and make these explicit in the resource guides that they create.

Establishing and learning criteria to filter information you find on the Internet is a good beginning for becoming a critical consumer of information in all forms.