Module 1.
How to Solve an Information Problem
1. Define Problem
2. Strategize
3. Seek & Evaluate
4. Use & Evaluate
5. Synthesize
Where to Start Research

Contents:
Introduction
Module 2: Search Techniques
Module 3: SD Library Network
Module 4: Proquest
Module 5: Infotrac
Module 6: Lexis-Nexis
Module 7: OCLC Firstsearch
Module 8: 
Module 9: 
Module 10: 
Module 11: Internet Searching
Module 12: Evaluating Internet sources
Module 13: Scholarly vs. Popular
Module 14: Citing sources
Module 15: How to Get Material Not Available Online

Step 4: Use & Evaluate

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Step 4. Use & Evaluate = Evaluate and extract what you want to use from the information

• Use: Engage (read, hear, or view) the information and extract what you want to use (take notes, copy, cite)
• Evaluate: Does the material answer your question(s)? If not, return to earlier steps and continue.
• Evaluate: Is the material appropriate? -- right content? right quality? If not, return to earlier steps and continue. Module 6 explains how to evaluate information found on the Internet.

[The five steps are based on the "big six skills" for solving information problems described by Michael B.Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz in Information Problem-Solving: the Big Six Skills Approach to Library & Information Skills Instruction (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990)].

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