Library 3 Reflection 4

What is information competency and why is it important? After taking this class in conjunction with my computer competency class, information competency has taken on a whole new meaning for me. I used to feel that in this age of information, access was just immediately at my fingertips with the Internet and the World Wide Web (which I learned in my computer class was NOT the same thing). And in many ways, information is at my fingertips but then again, misinformation is also at my fingertips. After taking the information competency course thusfar, I'm learning that information competency means more than just finding "something" about a subject. It means finding information that is current and accurate from reliable resources. It means being able to look at resources and to have to skills to evaluate how this information came to being. Having been a college student in the early 1990s and being a college student now is vastly different. Finding information has never been easier but there are still skills that need to be developed in order to narrow down searches and make one's findings relevant and meaningful. And as the amount of accessible information continues to increase, it seems to be more important than ever to be able to distinguish the good information from the bad.