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=Welcome to Finding and Evaluating Electronic Information!=

Description
Participants will learn basic and advanced searching techniques for databases and the Internet. They also will be introduced to various techniques for evaluating information. Ultimately, they will learn how incorporate these techniques into the classroom to help students become better searchers and evaluators of information.

**__Evidence of need__** We had 556 incoming freshman and 155 juniors complete the IMC's information literacy survey in 2009-2010. Less than 50% of students answered the Boolean search question correctly. In 2011, two freshman classes completed source evaluations through annotated bibliographies. Below are a few student quotations about finding credible sources:
 * I find this source reliable. Because when I did research on the site I found that it was done by Google, which is a somewhat reliable source.
 * I am not sure if is the best site I could have found. But I know I could use it easily.
 * Also, when I saw an ad from Stanford University on the site, I thought, "Stanford is a very good school and wouldn't put their name on something that wasn't legit."
 * About a source a student decided to use for his research assignment: "There was a bunch of information about everything but not much of what I needed."
 * About a source a student decided to use for his research assignment: "I would have to rate this 5 out of 10 because it's not really detailed and it's not well written. It's also opinionated which I don't like because I thought those were facts."