INFORMATIONAL LITERACY LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• ACRLStandards: ACRL's informational literacy standards for higher education.
• Conducting Research on the Internet: A Tutorial from the University of Albany.
• Easysearcher: Internet search aid with drop down menus to search tools with a beginner and advanced version. Advanced version drop downs suggest tools for topics.
• Evaluate Web Pages: material is intended to help students evaluate information found on the Wold Wide Web by Jan Alexander and Marsha Tate.
• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and links, with sample pages for student evaluation.
• Evaluation Bibliography: Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources.
• Finding Data on the Internet: Popular sources of free (and reputable) datasets on the Internet created by Robert Niles of the Rocky Mountain News.
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial by Joe Barker at Berkeley.
• FIU: Florida International University Library's informational literacy portal.
• IIL: The ACRL Institute for Information Literacy.
• ILAG: Information Literacy Assessment Group.
• ILI: SUNY Council of Library Directors Information Literacy Initiative.
• Infolit Tools: From the Maine Association of School Libraries.
• Information Literacy: Descriptive guide to select tutorials from IEP.
• Internet 101: An Internet tutorial of basic nature.
• Internet Detective: Welcome to Internet Detective - a free online tutorial that will help you develop Internet research skills for your university and college work.
• Internet Glossary: A glossary from the Keene Public Library.
• IS: Instruction Section of ACRL.
• Learn the Net: A commercial web tutorial at About
• Lessons Learned: Teaching Website evaluation.
• Library Instruction: From McHenry Library Instructional Services University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Library Instruction Tutorials: LIRT Research Committee's list of web based library instruction tutorials.
• Library Research: A seven step tutorial on conducting library use from Cornell University, also includes definitions of library terminology.
• Nettrail: A tutorial on conducting researchrom UCSC libraries.
• Library Tutorials: From Old Dominion University.
• Mousercise: Tutorial on using a mouse for beginners.
• net.Tutor: From the Ohio Gateway.
• New User Tutorial: Tutorial for new computer users.
• NFIL: The National Forum on Information Literacy homepage.
• Online Study Guide: Guide to conducting research and to library resources created by John Henderson of Ithaca College.
• Pandia Tutorials: A web search tutorial.
• PRIMO: ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project at Case Western Reserve University.
• Research101: Interactive tutorial about conducting research.
• Research Strategies: Online textbook by William Badke.
• The Scout Report: Weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, text only version.
• Searchenginecolossus: Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines and directories from 198 countries and 59 territories around the world.
• Search Engine Showdown: Greg Notess's site.
• Search Engine Watch: Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch, some pages on site have subscription only access.
• SKIL: Stanford's Key to Informational Literacy interactive tutorial.
• Supersearchers: Some search aids that supplement Information Todays's series of books.
• T is for Thinking: A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web.
• TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial, interactive online.
• Tutorials and Guides: From Cornell University.
• Web Evaluation Bibliography: From the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
• Web Evaluation Checklist: A single page checklist in PDF format from the University of Alberta.
• Web research: An outline of the research process, as conducted using the web.
• Web Search engines: A list of 138 general search engines compiled by Phil Bradley.
• Website Evaluation: An aid to developing critical thinking from UCLA.

Links last verified and updated 3/22/2007.

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