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Library Information Literacy

Library Resource Guide detailing information literacy, digital literacy, critical thinking skills and resource evaluation.

Computer Skills

Computer Skills

Below are links to websites that have integrated computer skill assessments and tutorials.

Software Skills

Software Skills

As technology changes constantly, we are always working on learning new skills, software and programs.  Here are links to a few new & popular software programs.

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy

The American Library Association (ALA) defines digital literacy as "the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

Algorithms

Algorithms

Algorithms are a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. 

Google Algorithms

How Google Search Works
Beyond the Search: The Biases Inside Google’s Algorithms - PBS NOVA

"Beyond the Search" tells the story of two leading information researchers who made shocking discoveries about hidden biases in the search technology we rely on every day. It begins when Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble set out to find activities to entertain her young nieces and entered the term “Black girls’’ into her search bar: pages of pornography appeared as the top results. Subsequent searches of “Latina girls” and “Asian girls” led to similarly sexualizing and racist results. Concerned about the effect of such dangerous stereotypes, Noble embarked on research that would lead to her groundbreaking book, ‘Algorithms of Oppression.’