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Volume X, Number 2 |
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Volume X, Number 2 |
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Surfing the Cyber Library: A Great New ResourceA major academic challenge facing students across all disciplines is how to best utilize the over whelming amount of information available via the World Wide Web. This issue is addressed in Surfing the Cyber Library, a Web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) Web Pages. Produced and designed by CIDDE in collaboration with ULS, this fully interactive, creatively designed Web site with embedded video clips provides a dynamic, upgradeable source of information. Its four chapters consist of a series of Web pages devoted to teaching the fundamentals of Web research: Chapter 1 “Using Search Engines”; Chapter 2 “Scanning URLs and Web Pages”; Chapter 3 “Evaluating Web Information Using the Five W’s; and Chapter 4 “Citing Web Information in Research.” The site originated with an Innovation in Education project, “Becoming an Information Critic: A Video Providing Students with the Fundamentals of Information Evaluation.” It was renamed and evolved into a new form as Project Director Marian C. Hampton, School of Information Sciences (SIS) and ULS, worked with video producer Len Jendrey, graphic designer Alec Sarkas, and other CIDDE staff to crate a tool to facilitate the evaluation of online resource materials. Surfing the Cyber Library can be found at: www.library.pitt.edu/guides/eval/.
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