E-Literacy Workshop Series

by Prof. Jane Devine

The Library presented a series of three E-Literacy workshops during the Spring I semester. The workshops provided demonstrations of Questia, an e-book collection marketed directly to students and netLibrary, an e-book collection already available to CUNY students through the library. The third workshop, 		New Media for the Millennium, presented instructional equipment available for classroom use through the Library's Media Services division. The E-Literacy workshops started in 1999 to help introduce LaGuardia's faculty and staff to the changing world of electronic resources and the digital library. Past workshops have introduced LEXIS-NEXIS, Infotrac, CUNY+Web and other services. Future workshops will feature the new Library Web catalog, e-journals and new electronic research projects. If you have any suggestions for electronic databases that you would like to see featured, please contact Jane Devine(x5415).

Check your GroupWise e-mail for upcoming announcements about our E-Literacy workshop series.


Web Site Evaluation

by Prof. Louise Fluk

Searching the “free” Web is navigating an information minefield. Bias, spoofs, hoaxes, myths, confusion, marketing, advocacy and useless “facts” mix happily with serious studies, scholarly research, honest reporting 		and critical analysis. How can we help our students discern the difference? The library has developed a short presentation on the evaluation of Web sites, including dramatic examples of sophisticated sites created to mislead the unwary. If you are interested in such a presentation for your department faculty, please contact Louise Fluk by phone (x5476) or on Groupwise (fluk@lagcc.cuny.edu). Evaluation of Web sites should be an integral part of our students information literacy skills.


Searching the “free” Web is navigating an information minefield.


Pro-Cite available to Faculty

By Martin Zimerman

Pro-Cite, a software program that creates bibliographies from library databases, manages references and citations, and formats citations is now available in the library.

Pro-Cite is a powerful tool because it allows researchers

to search Internet databases, Web-based library catalogs and Internet resource lists for specific subjects and generate lists of titles according to prescribed citation style (MLA, APA, etc.). This is especially helpful for departments undergoing accreditation review processes.

Pro-Cite is available in the library classroom. Please call x5435 (Martin Zimerman) or x5428 (Clementine Lewis) for details, to schedule a demo, or to set up an appointment to use Pro-Cite.






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