Information Disorder Disease (IDD)
False information that is not intended to cause harm may be spread by individuals who unknowingly share it on social media, thinking they are being helpful.
What is misinformation?
The system that the librarians at the Lyons Memorial Library use to organize books.
Example: 230.24 C253w
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
This is an example of what?
English, M. M., Viana, L., & McSweeney, M. B. (2019). Effects of Soaking on the Functional Properties of Yellow‐Eyed Bean Flour and the Acceptability of Chocolate Brownies. Journal of Food Science (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 84(3), 623–628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-3841.14485
What is a citation?
The author of the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Researched media as epistemology -- how we acquire information changes what we think counts as real truth.
Who is Neil Postman?
A type of research question that uses open-ended questions.
What is qualitative?
True-or-false information is spread to persuade an audience, often with a political connotation and frequently linked to government-produced information.
What is propaganda?
You are looking for the book The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip. The book is cataloged GN J F B. The letters GN and J indicate the following.
What is a graphic novel and juvenile?
Allows you to narrow the focus of your search – examples: date, publication type, language, etc.
What is a filter?
Information Literacy class is considered (by me) as a ___________ concept class. ________ concepts are skills that, when mastered, represent a transformed understanding of a discipline, without which the learner cannot progress.
What is a threshold concept?
The section of a research journal article where you discuss how you did your research.
What is the method section?
False information deliberately created or spread to cause harm. Producers of __________ typically have political, financial, psychological, or social motivations
What is disinformation?
The term used for a library's bibliographic database of books.
What is a catalog?
A publication that is issued weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
What are periodicals or journals?
The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has six components. The 5th frame discusses when scholars, researchers, and professionals engage in sustained discourse over time through writing.
What is the Scholarship as Conversation?
A research approach that combines both quantitative (numbers and statistics) and qualitative (words and meanings) data within a single project.
What is a mixed-methods study?
Writing that uses literary devices like ridicule and irony to criticize aspects of society.
What is satire?
The letter used to catalog oversized books.
What is the letter Q?
When writing a research query in a library database, you may use a ___________ opeator: And, Or, Not.
What is Boolean?
Research is __________. It is repetitive. As you learn more and more, you begin to ask new questions. You go back and revise. Research is not intended to be linear.
This is the tendency to use only information that agrees with your opinion.
What is confirmation bias?
Genuine information that is shared to cause harm.16 This includes private or revealing information that is spread to harm a person or reputation.
What is malinformation?
Used to read/view old newspapers. Found in the basement of the Lyons Memorial Library.
What is a microfiche or microfilm machine?
When a journal article has been vetted by individuals in the same field of study.
What is peer-review?
"Our world has more and more information, but less and less wisdom. More data; less clarity…more pontificating; less pondering. More opinion; less research…We're living in an _________ crisis. It's hard to know if anything can be reliably known.”
Brett McCracken – The Wisdom Pyramid
What is epistemological?
Is a list of source citations (such as books, articles, and documents) where each citation is followed by a short explanatory and evaluative paragraph called an annotation.
What is an annotated bibliography?