Research Like A Librarian: Accessing Information in the 21st Century

Many people think of literacy to be about the ability to read, however today there are many types of literacies. You might have heard people talk about Health Literacy, Mathematical Literacy, or Media Literacy. This book is about Information Literacy. This is the ability to find and use information.

There is so much information available today. We see an exponential increase of information thanks to the ease of adding information to the internet and publishing both print and electronic materials via the web. With so much information it becomes easy to find something, but increasingly more difficult to find exactly the right piece of information.