During my time at UNCG, I created two reference guides: one a
published LibGuide, and one
a review of Ukrainian reference resources for class. I also
developed a mini-collection, complete with selection criteria.
For my mini-collection development project for collections management, I had a maximum number of total resources, and I had to be able to defend why I chose
this resource over
that resource. Therefore, I made it so that only the authorized materials would be used, and gave a reason (albeit a personal opinion) for not including
Time Magazine. I thought this was rather good for a first attempt at developing the rational behind why I choosing to include (or not include) resources. (
Edit: on 09 March 2017, Amal Clooney gave a speech at the UN about how the US is allowing ISIS to get away with genocide.
Time Magazine published a story about how she "showed off her baby bump." It seems I am not the only person to have this opinion of
Time Magazine. See
this Washington Post and
this Columbia Journalism Review story for more information.)
My LibGuide was from the following semester, and, though I chose the same subject, I focused more on the musical aspects, creating a LibGuide with embedded YouTube videos. Again, no unauthorized biographies.
The principles of information literacy seen in these examples would be the identifying of factual information, and the accuracy of information. In the Collection Management Policy and the LibGuide, I decided that the unauthorized biographies would be inaccurate and non-factual. I also decided that
Time Magazine was becoming too much of a tabloid, and therefore the information contained would more than likely be inaccurate and non-factual. In the guide to resources about Ukraine, I used UNCG's journals databases to find articles about Ukraine, and used information literacy principles to decide if the articles found were what I was looking for.
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