Welcome to the Information Skills Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to help you develop information literacy, the ability to:

• recognize when information is needed
• locate, evaluate, and use the needed information effectively.

Information literacy prepares you for:

• resource-based learning
• class reports and research assignments
• your future work environment, where continuous learning will be the norm
• lifelong learning.

This tutorial helps you to:

• formulate research questions
• develop effective research strategies
• identify appropriate information sources
• search electronic databases
• evaluate the information you find
• use information responsibly and ethically.

This tutorial consists of five units. You can work through all units in one session, do them one at a time, or in any order you choose. If you do them all in a row it generally takes around two and a half hours to complete all the units. At the end of each unit or at the end of the entire tutorial you can click on the "Self Test" link in the upper right corner to take a quiz on that unit.

To begin, click on any of the five units at the left, or start here.

If you need help, contact the KYVL Help Desk (Kentucky Virtual Library) or consult your local librarian.