Best Practice Example

Name: Nancy Steinhoff	Name: Stefan Smith
Title: Instruction Librarian	Title: Outreach Librarian
Institution: Murphy Library,UW-LaCrosse	Institution: Murphy Library, UW-LaCrosse
Street Address: 1631 Pine St.	Street Address: 1631 Pine St.
City/State/Zip: La Crosse, WI 54601	City/State/Zip: La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-785-8395	Phone: 608-785-8396
Email: stein_nc@mail.uwlax.edu	Email: smith_sa@mail.uwlax.edu
Fax: 608-785-8639	Fax: 608-785-8639

 

Title of practice or implementation method: Ethical Issues Addressed in a Web-Based Library Tutorial

Primary audience: Students in a Freshman Year Seminar
Secondary audience: Other beginning students

Describe the practice:

An interactive tutorial introduces students to basic ethical issues encountered when accessing information. Students proceed through a series of screens dealing with evaluation of information, plagiarism and the citing of sources, and copyright.

Competencies addressed through this practice:
6. Critically evaluate the information retrieved.
10. Understand public policy and the ethical issues affecting the access and use of information.

Supporting materials/resources used and their format:

Module 6, Information Success Tutorial http://perth.uwlax.edu/MurphyLibrary/tutorial/smart/start6.html

Special requirements to use these resources: A computer with internet access.

References consulted:
Inspiration for this in part came from Kathy Schmidt, who developed a handout titled Critical Evaluation of Web Pages, http://perth.uwlax.edu/MurphyLibrary/guides/guide453.html. She consulted Tate, Marsha, and Jan Alexander. "Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources." Computers in Libraries 16:10 (Nov/Dec 1996) 49-55 as well as other internet resources.

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