Blog 4

Well I know this is 2 days late, but hey I've been dealing with family issues, my great grandmother was admitted into the hospital this weekend and isn't doing so well, she's already gotten 2 strokes, and has alzheimers. Well so anyways here is my blog now...

Information Competency is the ability to effectively recognize and act on information needs, to locate, evaluate, and use appropriate information to make reasoned decisions. (www.library.ohiou.edu/inst/infocomp.html)

Well in answer to Dena's question yes I do think information competency is important, especially after reading the definition lol. I think all students should learn how to locate, evaluate and use appropriate information especially if they have to do a research project or paper. Like I said in my last blog, I will always have something negative to say, but I just can't help that, but in truth this class has taught me a thing or two so I highly recommend it, even if I didn't recommend it for myself. Does that make any sense? I know I'm weird right?? HA...

After completing this one class I wouldn't exactly call myself an information competent student. It's true I learned quite a few things such as accessing websites I never new existed, especially on the lbcc library page such as proquest, I also learned how to tell which websites are fake and which are real. Students who have taken the time out of their days to learn more from other library classes are information competent students, but me nah. As much as I love the library, I don't see myself going very far with this, especially if it means that I have to take another lib class. Don't get me wrong, Dena is a great teacher, I just realized this class isn't for me eventhough I stuck it out. It's better to stick something out than to quit right?

By the way that's not a rhetorical question...

After this course is over, to be honest I have no clue what I should do to improve my competency skills. I can see if I can go to the library more often and use what I have learned so far, but that's about it. I will always use what I learn in the near future from this class and from any other class I take except math because I hate that subject. I do have to admitt this, even though this class was quite boring to me, I'm going to miss it. There I go again for being difficult lol... it's the truth though, and as a matter of fact I have nothing more negative to say. There were only 2 assignments I disliked, but other than that everything was alright. :)