This document outlines the agenda for a meeting that will discuss information literacy. It will cover how to evaluate the credibility of sources, both in academic and real world contexts. Specific topics will include how to identify credible information, structures that control information, clues within sources, cross-referencing multiple sources, and challenges determining credibility online. The academic world uses credentials, affiliations, prestige and peer review to judge credibility. A library orientation will also be provided.

1. September 5, 2013

2. Tonight’s Agenda
 Writing Center/MySkillsLab (guest)
 Information Literacy
 Validity in the academic world
 Validity in the outside world
 Library Orientation
 Plagiarism
 TurnItIn originality reports, similarity indexes
 How to do this week’s homework

3. Information Literacy
 How do you decide what information is credible?
 Credibility = believability
 Skills involved in judging credibility:
 Knowing how structures, procedures, and institutions
control information
 Staying aware of clues within sources that help you
judge their credibility
 Cross-referencing information among multiple sources

4. Information Literacy
 Real world examples of decision-making challenges
related to credibility
 http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
 http://martinlutherking.org/
 http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?ti
d=576074
 http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp

9. Information Literacy
 The academic world uses credentials, institutional
affiliation, prestige, and the peer review system as
guides to credibility.
 Peer review example:
 http://www.editorialmanager.com/ncteej/

10. Library Link
 ucl.broward.edu
 It’s also on the blog