Reading Assignment #2

Kathryn Smith
LIB 103

“Information Navigation 101” by Andrea L. Foster Chronicle of Higher Education


With the rapid increase of technology and resources available with just a click of your finger, the article reflects on how too often, many college students rely on Google or Wikipedia sources to receive information when they need to find something. But, what many students do not realize, is how much information is truly out there, and how universities are maintaining their resources by encouraging students to use scholarly materials by informing and teaching how to navigate through College University’s online catalog of databases, scholarly books, and journals to do research in a particular discipline.

With the help and availability of librarians, professors will sends students to a computer lab, where Liberians can help navigate them through the university’s online catalog of numerous resources that libraries do not have and borrow from other libraries. This kind of instruction is called “information literacy”. The importance of information literacy is growing throughout colleges, where several colleges have developed their own tests to measure students’ information-literacy skills which many colleges and accrediting agencies say college graduates must be information literate.

So, although information is increasingly more and more readily available to students through internet information websites, universities are continuing to increase the importance of our libraries and what resources are available to students, which they may not necessarily be aware of. The near future is to bring a new kind of literacy available to college students. The article mentions how The Educational Testing Service is promoting its test to measure how well students’ use technology to find, organize, and communicate information. Regardless, libraries will continue to hold a strong importance to universities and students for the future.