College & Research Libraries News
Letter to the editor
It was so refreshing to read Jennifer W. Kimball’s “Remember when you were information illiterate?” in the July/August 1999 issue of C&RL News.
All too often we overestimate the level of awareness that students and faculty have about doing research, especially with the technological enhancements that have impacted our delivery of information resources.
At our community college, the percentage of students who do not use a computer regularly and are not connected to the Internet is higher than those who do. Staff and faculty who may use a computer daily to process student enrollments or prepare purchase requisitions may not be at all familiar or comfortable with “surfing on the Web.”
Kimball’s article was especially useful to me as I developed the course I am teaching this fall for faculty and staff: Information Literacy in an Information-Overloaded World.—Charlet Key, Black Hawk College, e-mail: keyc@Bhcl.bhc.edu
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