Statista -- Module 8

Module 8	Statista
S STRATEGY	Simple
REFINEMENT SS	Initial search with the term information literacy yielded 197 results. Many of the results were from Australia, UK, and other countries.  It also included information on reading literacy.  I narrowed it by country and yielded 12 results.
BEST HIT SS	I found two really good hits.  One was statistics on “Service priorities of academic libraries U.S. 2016,” which offered interesting chart on where information literacy falls in the service priority list of academic libraries. The other was a more interesting report by what seems to be the UK version of the FCC.  The report I found on Statista offered detailed statistics on the subject of media literacy a subset of information literacy as it relates to social media and Internet use.
1 CONTENT THNG YOU LEARNED	Adults Media Use and Attitudes report 2018 by Ofcom a British communications company – examines adult media literacy in Britain for people ages 16 and older.  The report defines media literacy as, “Media literacy is the ability to use, understand and create media and communications in a variety of contexts.” This report could be very useful in researching information literacy research and it is published annually.  They had detailed breakdowns of statistics based on research that measured a variety of thought processes and circumstances.  Some of the questions researched were, amount of time used on devices, types of devices used, opinions on search engine accuracy, and whether users believed the information they retrieved online and if they took the next step to check the information
1 SEARCHING THING YOU LEARNED	I liked that you could sort by Country.  This helped to narrow the search for statistics in the geographic location that you were interested in.
REFLECT ON HOW THE SEARCH WENT	I found Statista easy to use as well and it offered a lot of information. I liked the breakdown of the search results on the side that showed the number of items found under their different categories of statistics, studies and reports, expert tools, infographics, etc.  I also liked that you could sort by country.

Lexis Nexis -- Module 7

Module 7	Lexis Nexis
S STRATEGY	Building block: Initial search was for information literacy which yielded 997 results
REFINEMENT SS	I did two types of refinements. The first was geographical and narrowed it to the United States.  That yielded 257 results. I wasn’t successful searching within those geographically refined results for “media literacy and “digital literacy.” I then tried the search with in results on my main search results and was able to yield 5 results using the key words “digital literacy” AND “media literacy”
BEST HIT SS	Two articles seemed relevant: “What is digital literacy?” and “Common Core gives nod to digital skills.”
1 CONTENT THNG YOU LEARNED	I learned from the “what is digital literacy”article that I may have better results using the term digital literacy versus information literacy.  The term is more specific to Internet and social media and cites the ALA definition of, “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.”
1 SEARCHING THING YOU LEARNED	This database allows you to search within your results by using categories but the lists to help you narrow your search  were long.  You also have the option of searching within results in a box on the top right but I would say you need to have some skill with using Boolean operators.  I did not find that appealing.
REFLECT ON HOW THE SEARCH WENT	I did not prefer this database. I think it is probably a good source if you want to search newspapers but I didn’t necessarily find it the easiest of the databases that we’ve used to find information.

WorldCat -- Module 6

Module 6	WorldCat
S STRATEGY	Specific facet: I did an advance search using the terms information literacy and “fake news”
REFINEMENT SS	Yielded 85 results: on the first page there were 3 articles that used the terms information literacy and fake news .
BEST HIT SS	Alternative facts, digital literacy,  and news literacy were terms that came out of the search.  I refined the search by adding quotes around “information literacy” as well as “fake news”.  That yielded 51 results.
1 CONTENT THNG YOU LEARNED
1 SEARCHING THING YOU LEARNED	A book title “Information literacy and libraries in the age of fake news.” The book covers how libraries are combating misinformation on the Internet.  I think this would be a great source.  Another book that would be a great resource is “Fake news and alternative facts: Information literacy in a post-truth era
REFLECT ON HOW THE SEARCH WENT	I think WorldCat is a good resource if you want to see a broad picture of resources available on a topic and where they are located.  Overall WorldCat is not one of my favorite databases.

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