An Appetizing Welcome: Refreshments and Workshop Introduction

Sylvia Curtis, Co-Coordinator, Ethnic, Gender, & Area Studies Collection Group

The Meat of the Matter: Information Literacy and the Research Process

Lorna Lueck, Head, Curriculum Laboratory
Janet Martorana, Reference and Instruction Librarian

• Information literacy standards K-12 and higher education
• Strategies for teaching research, critical thinking and evaluation skills

Lunch Break

A Piece of the Pie: Database Searching as Part of the Research Process

Sherry DeDecker, Head, Government Information Center
Teddi Morris, Librarian, Hueneme High School
Sylvelin Edgerton, Coordinator, Humanities Collection Group
Carol Gibbens, Coordinator, Information Services

• Constructing searches
• Selecting different databases
• Hands-on database searching
• Evaluation skills
• Requesting articles from the UCSB Library

Satisfaction or Indigestion: Searching and Evaluating the Internet

Sylvia Curtis and Janet Martorana

• How Can I Search the Web by Topic?: Using "search engines" and "web guides"
• How Do I Know What's Good on the Web?: Evaluating sites
• Citing the Web

Feedback, follow-up and evaluation