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Peer reviewedProfeta, Pat; Kendrick, Marta – Visions: The Journal of Applied Research for the Florida Association of Community Colleges, 2002
Argues that students need to be information literate in order to navigate the wealth of information available online. Offers results of a computer literacy assessment that showed students' skill in locating, evaluating, and using information via electronic resources needed a great deal of improvement. Recommends creating institutional standards…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Computer Literacy
Download full textByers, Anne – Rural Clearinghouse Digest, 1996
Rural areas lag behind urban areas in access to information technologies. Public institutions play a critical role in extending the benefits of information technologies to those who would not otherwise have access. The most successful rural telecommunications plans address barriers to use, such as unawareness of the benefits, technophobia, the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Information Services, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication
McCabe, Gerard B.; McCabe, Rebecca M. – 1994
As elementary and secondary schools increase computer training for their students, computer literacy is advancing to a higher level of proficiency for these students. As they make use of academic and public libraries, students will expect high performance computer service and have challenging requirements of that service. Libraries must develop…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
