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Concepts & PracticeInformation Literacy Instructional Program
Information Literacy Learning Guides
Organizing and Synthesizing Information
Learning to organize and synthesis information is the first key to understanding and using information effectively. Organizing information into categories or similar information is the first step to understanding the information gathered.
Synthesizing information requires a student to process information rather than simply copying and memorizing information. We must take the information and interact with this information by categorizing, analyzing, and comparing for bias, inadequacies, omissions, errors and value judgments. The final step is to take the information and relate it to our own knowledge and experience.
Books
Books are organized by call numbers. This is a straight forward process which groups books and other materials together by subject. At Estrella Mountain Community College, we use the Library of Congress Classification System. For more information : Finding Books
Magazines & Newspapers
Newspapers and magazine are organized by title of publication and by date. They can be found in print or digitally on an online database. For more information :Finding Magazines and Newspaper Articles
The World Wide Web
The Internet has been compared to the largest library in the world - with all the books thrown up in the air and landing randomly on the floor. It is not quite as bad as that. Bookmarking Web pages into folders to organize information is the key to Search engines are tools that allow us to search millions of documents at the same time and locate information. For more information : Finding Web Resources