MVMS Seventh Grade Information Literacy Survey
This survey will help Ms. Palmer decide which research skills to teach this year. Please be as honest as you can be. If you don’t know the answer, leave it blank instead of guessing. Thank you!
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What is a bibliography?
What order should a bibliography be in?
It should be in numerical order (numbered).
It should be in alphabetical order by the title of the book.
It should be in alphabetical order by the first word of each entry.
It should be in order of the date published.
Where can you find the name of the author in the World Book
On the cover.
On the title page.
At the end of the article.
There are no authors for World Book information.
Why should you write down a list of your sources when doing research?
What is the easiest way to find information about a country in the almanac?
Use the tabs on the back of the book.
Use the table of contents.
Use the index.
Almanacs are like encyclopedias – you look up topics in alphabetical order.
What kinds of information or documents do our databases, SIRS and EBSCO, offer? How are they different from using web sites?
You can only access our databases, SIRS and EBSCO, from the library computers.
True
False
Mark all of the ways you can tell if a web site has reliable information.
The web site address ends in .gov
The web site is one of the top three hits on a Google search.
The web site author is a professor in that subject area.
The web site is from a well-known, trustworthy organization such as the Red Cross.
When using Google to find web sites about the environmental harm caused by making plastic, which of the following would be good keywords to use?
plastic AND pollution
“how does plastic hurt the environment”
Plastic
Environment web sites
Which web site should you be especially cautious about using because just about anyone can edit the information on it?
If you want to find information about William Shakespeare in the World Book encyclopedia, what would you do first?
Look in the index at the back of the “S” volume.
Look for “William” in the “W-X-Y-Z” volume.
Look for “Shakespeare” in the “So-Sz” volume.
Look for “Shakespeare” in the “S-Sn” volume.
Is there anything you would you like to know more about when you come to the library for research? (Finding good web sites, using databases, finding photos, writing a bibliography?)
Name (Optional)
Social Studies Teacher
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