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INFORMATION LITERACY MISSION STATEMENT

As an integral part of their education, all Smith College students shall learn how to find, evaluate, and make ethical use of information needed for their current and future intellectual endeavors.

"The net is like a huge vandalized library. Someone has destroyed the catalog and removed the front matter, indexes, etc. from hundreds of thousands of books and torn and scattered what remains..."Surfing" is the process of sifting through this disorganized mess in the hope of coming across some useful fragments of text and images that can be related to other fragments. The net is even worse than a vandalized library because thousands of additional unorganized fragments are added daily by the myriad of cranks, sages, and persons with time on their hands who launch their unfiltered messages into cyberspace."

Michael Gorman, "The Corruption of Cataloging"
Library Journal 120 (15 September, 1995):34.

Thanks to Gail Gradowski, Orradre Library, Santa Clara University; Marsha Forys, University of Iowa Libraries; Sarah Burns, Pace University Library; Margaret Fain, Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University; and Anna Bomback, University of Alberta Library for permission to use materials from their Information Literacy web pages.

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