Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and your roommate. Google, Google Scholar, news feeds, and your uncle at the holiday dinner table. In our lives today, we are bombarded with information, all vying for our attention, in every moment of the 24-hour day. How do we make decisions about what’s true and reliable? How do we know when we have enough or the “right” kind of information to make informed decisions whether in life or for a class assignment?
In LIBR 110: Information & Your Life, we will explore how to find, access, evaluate, and use information, and how the information systems we use are influenced by a variety of forces that shape the creation of information and our use of it. Relying on our curiosity to develop researchable questions, we will explore and discover how information works, and learn strategies to harness the power of information to the benefit of our world and our own lives.
The University Libraries is offering this pass/no pass 1-credit course via web conferencing. No textbook is required for purchase. We will use articles, videos, and case studies that students will have access to in Canvas.
This course supports the development of critical information literacy skills and abilities that are vitally needed in today’s world. The course focuses on ideas about how information and information systems work that should transfer to a variety of disciplines and be accessible to students in all majors.
The course is listed in the catalog as LIBR 110: Information & Your Life. Please direct any questions about the course to: Janel Simons, jcayer2@unl.edu, or Catherine Fraser Riehle, catherine.riehle@unl.edu.