Information Literacy Roundup 2020

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Information Literacy, Information Literacy Month, National Information Literacy Awareness Month

December is here and that ends National Information Literacy Awareness Month, but information literacy and tech literacy are things to work on for everyone all year. Please revisit our posts.

What is Information Literacy?

• Introduction to the Month
• What is Information Literacy?
• Iowa Official Proclamation of National Information Literacy Awareness Month
• President of United States proclaims NILAM
• New Books Related to Information Literacy
• New Books Related to Information Literacy 2018

Things to Think and Know About

• Asking Good Questions
• Check Your Photos
• Copyright
• Have a Plan for an Online Afterlife
• Millennial Spokesman, NOT!
• Online Activities and Job Hunting
• Passwords
• Privacy
• Private Browsing Online
• Satire and the News
• Social Media
• Spotting Trolls
• Tracking Down a Study
• Twitter Bad History Feeds
• What Weight Is In a Name
• What You Put Online Stays Online
• Your Website Is Watching You

Keep calm, think it through and we’ll be back with more helpful tips next year!

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Information Literacy Your Website Is Watching You

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Information Literacy, Information Literacy Month, National Information Literacy Awareness Month, Online Privacy

Have you ever gotten the feeling as you were working online that someone was watching you? Turns out you probably weren’t wrong.

According to Ars Technica: “A new study finds hundreds of sites—including microsoft.com, adobe.com, and godaddy.com—employ scripts that record visitors’ keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior in real time, even before the input is submitted or is later deleted.”

So private information is inputted into these sites. The recording information may start before you submit anything. These records are made and analyzed by third party organizations, with even less oversight often without giving you any notification. Information like medical conditions or credit card numbers are multiplied across sites around the web.

As it stands today there isn’t a lot a user can do in response. Be careful and selective in where you put your true information online. Using ad-blockers and the “Do Not Track” option built into browsers stopped some, but not all such tracking. So for the most part be restrictive about where you put your personal data online.

Take Helen Parr’s advice from The Incredibles: “Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it. ”

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Information Literacy Social Media

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Information Literacy, Information Literacy Month, National Information Literacy Awareness Month, Pew Research Center, Social Media

 It’s Information Literacy Month and Pew Research Center has taken a look at Social Media.

The Pew Research Center is a bipartisan research center that conducts studies to provide useful knowledge to the public. A recent study looked at how people engage in news through social media. They examined most of the big social media sites. Most people don’t turn to them for news. The biggest number who do are on Facebook, mostly because they have the highest number of users, but the news looked at is mostly having to do with entertainment. Twitter users were the most engaged. However, news, especially engaged at all with politics or political correctness, has very little actual discussion online (even on Twitter which is all about discussion) because people are unlikely to engage with those with differing opionions and are reluctant to post something that contradicts the views of their friends. In other words, if you only see one point of view in your various timelines, it doesn’t really mean that’s what everybody thinks or that it’s the one correct way to view it.

Read more here:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/24/how-social-media-is-reshaping-news

And be sure to find Kirkwood Libraries at Facebook and YouTube.

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

National Information Literacy Awareness Month 2012

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Information Literacy, Information Literacy Month, Kirkwood Library Services, National Information Literacy Awareness Month

Information Literacy, making sure people can find, evaluate for quality and use the information that they need, is a big part of any library. Here at Kirkwood Library Services we help students and faculty with Information Literacy every day, but we’re glad that this official month focuses attention on the importance of being able to deal with information well.

This is fairly new event.  This is only the second year we’ve celebrated it here at Kirkwood. We hope to do more to celebrate it next year to bring more attention to Information Literacy.  We’re looking for ideas and suggestions on what we could do next year and stories about how getting the right information or not being fooled by the wrong information has made a difference to you.

In the meantime, please put up the badge of the event for support on all your social media. Find the directions and badges here:
http://www.librariesthriving.org/partnerships/2012-information-literacy-campaign

What exactly is Information Literacy? Here is the long definition from the Association of College and Research Libraries:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency#ildef

So why should Information Literacy be important to you? Take a look at this article talking about the need for Information Literacy in the Workplace:
http://infolit.org/workplace-information-literacy

Find more general information about National Information Literacy Awareness Month, here:
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/information-literacy-awareness