How confident are you in your ability to do the following information and library-related tasks for this class?

In order to survive in the academic world-- and in fact, in order to thrive in the real world-- you need to hone your "information literacy."

What does "information literacy" mean? Well, it's knowing when you need to find information, having the skills to find the information you need, the tools to analyse and evaluate the information when you find it, and the ability to ethically (and legally) incorporate that information into your own work. 

Librarians have framed information literacy in six ways:

• Authority -- about trustability
• Process -- about creating and using information
• Value -- about purpose, value and results 
• Inquiry -- about developing questions
• Conversation -- about interactions between users, experts and sources
• Strategic Exploration - about ways of searching

To give an idea how information-literate you feel, please fill out the poll in the left column!

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