• You know how to evaluate information.
• The Nature of the Database
• What do you need to ask to evaluate information on the Internet
• Where can you find the answers to evaluate information on the Internet
  • Authority,
  • Reliability
  • Timeliness
  • Security and Privacy
• Resources for further study.

• Activity 1. Evaluating Web sites (Practical Experience)
• Activity 2. Evaluating Subject Directories and Electronic Library Collections
• Activity 3. Evaluating World Wide Web Rating Services
• Activity 4. Exercises in Privacy and Security

(Readings are linked from Activities and Lecture pages)

Further Study:

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In this hands-on workshop Participants will learn strategies for evaluating information found on the  Internet that mirror the strategies used to evaluate information from other sources.

Evaluation strategies will include locating and evaluating tools which review and evaluate Internet information as well as strategies for individually evaluating Internet information resources.

Audience

This workshop is intended for people who want to learn about using the Internet to find high quality, authoritative information.

Participants should know how to use e-mail and a current standard Web Browser, e.g.,Mozilla/Firefox, Netscape 7.0 or IE 5.5 or higher is preferred.

Free Web-Based - No Registration Required. However, if you want instructor feedback please make sure you put your full name and email on your work.

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Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet  & Web Training. She has 15 years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. Diane has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA CE courses since 2001. She also designs and teaches Web-based courses for UIUC GSLIS LEEP, the ACRL, and other organizations.

by Kovacs, Diane K. Neal-Schuman Publishers (2007) published concurrently in the United Kingdom by Facet Publishers (2007) by Kovacs, Diane K. & Robinson, Kara L. was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Genealogical Research on Web was published in 2002 . How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online Tutorial for the Health Care Professional and Consumer (2000) (Library Solutions Press) and Building Electronic Library Collections: The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Collections (Neal-Schuman) were both published in 2000.

Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide , was published in 1995. The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was published in 1997. She has also co-authored with her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to Successful Internet Programs and Services  which was published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.

Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.   She was also the recipient  of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996. Since 1990 she has been the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and Professional  Electronic Conferences.

Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science   from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in  Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985.

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