New Full Text Report: “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age”

From the Abstract: A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college in six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information...

New: FTC Website Educates Kids about Privacy and Fraud

From the Announcement: Today, the Federal Trade Commission opened new areas of a “virtual mall” with content that will help kids learn to protect their privacy, spot frauds and scams, and avoid...

Study: 80% of Brits are not ‘information savvy citizens’

From the Article: From the Article: While Brits are savvy with digital information services such as social web, catch up video services and price comparison websites, they are not making the most of...

An Interactive Information Literacy Tutorial

Note: If information literacy is an area that you keep a close watch on this blog is one you should be monitoring (if you aren’t already). You’ll see what I mean with the resource listed...

A Look at Cyberchondria

Did you know that cyberchondria is an actual term? From the Article: Cyberchondria, loosely defined as the baseless fueling of fears and anxiety about common health symptoms due to Internet research,...