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Pilot Online Information Literacy Tutorial
Researching with electronic tools

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Pre-exercise
Overview of Databases
Overview of the Web
Search strategies
Evaluating/ Interpreting search results
Capturing electronic information
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The web contains a multitude of electronic documents residing on computers (servers) around the world. It is unique because of its multimedia capabilities and because it provides hypertext links.

After completing this section of the module, you will:

  • Have an understanding of the structure and attributes of the web
  • Be able to use web search tools
  • Be able to identify different types of web sites