INFORMATIONAL LITERACY LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• ACRL Standards Toolkit: 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.
• 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.
• Information Literacy Resources Directory: The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.
• 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 Road To Research: An tutorial from UCLA library.
• 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: 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 Checklist: A single page checklist in PDF format from the University of Alberta.
• Web research, a Guide for Students: An outline of the research process, as conducted using the web.
• Web Search engines: A list of search engines compiled by Phil Bradley with blog updates.

Links last verified and updated 11/13/2008.

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