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Evaluating
Internet Information
Training
Librarians
know that accuracy, authenticity, objectivity and currency are key considerations
in the validation of information resources, especially the plethora of
new web sites which appears daily. LibraryNet offers links to the following
resources, designed to help librarians evaluate and select the very best
of Internet resources for their patrons and themselves.
- Evaluating
Web Resources
- A great
page prepared by two college librarians, with checklists, teaching tools,
a bibliography, and additional links to other evaluation resources.
- Evaluation
of Information Sources
- Alastair
Smith has collected a wide variety of links to various sets of criteria
for evaluating Internet resources. Aimed especially at librarians and
others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource
guide.
- Evaluating
Quality on the Net
- Librarian
Hope Tillman's excellent paper on how to exercise your evaluation skills
on the Internet. She covers the relevance of existing criteria for other
formats, the continuum of information on the net, and the current state
of Internet evaluation tools.
- Internet
Detective
- The Internet
Detective is a free and interactive web-based tutorial on evaluating
the quality of the information found on the Internet. The Internet Detective
teaches broad Internet and information evaulation skills, so it's adaptable
to a wide range of users, from high school students to library professionals.
- Library
Selection Criteria for WWW Resources
- One librarian's
(Carolyn Carwood, who writes for School Library Journal) suggested criteria
for assessing the value of a Web site to your library's users.
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