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8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Tuesday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Wednesday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Thursday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Friday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
September 2, 2024-Labor Day
October 11, 2024-Fall Break
November 5, 2024-Federal Election Day
November 27, 2024, 12:00 pm-Thanksgiving
November 28-29, 2024-Thanksgiving
December 23, 2024-January 3, 2025-Winter Break
*Hours are subject to change
Fall 2024 Hours |
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Monday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Tuesday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Wednesday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Thursday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
Friday |
8:30 am-5:00 pm |
September 2, 2024-Labor Day
October 11, 2024-Fall Break
November 5, 2024-Federal Election Day
November 27, 2024, 12:00 pm-Thanksgiving
November 28-29, 2024-Thanksgiving
December 23, 2024-January 3, 2025-Winter Break
*Hours are subject to change
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The world is changing fast. Many of the skills necessary to succeed academically and professionally involve navigating a landscape of digital media. The ability to find, evaluate, and effectively utilize information found online is more necessary now than ever.
We all now live in the information age and the amount of information available to each of us to help make decisions is expanding at an astounding rate. According to Computer Sciences Corporation, data production will be forty four times greater in 2020 than it was in 2009. Understanding how to use this data effectively is part of information literacy.
The good news is that each time you undertake a research paper in college you already are developing your information literacy skills. You are learning how to recognize an information need, formulate questions, locate relevant sources, and ultimately evaluate and communicate the information effectively and responsibly.
Today's employers expect recent graduates to possess deep critical thinking and problem-solving skills and information literacy is the foundation for these abilities. The failure to employ these skills can be very serious.
Let's look at three real-world examples that each illustrate the consequences of failing to use information effectively.
In summary, information and critical thinking abilities are essential keys to your personal academic and professional success. Start by looking at the world around you with this new mindset, aware that you possess more information in this moment than you did just a few minutes ago and know that you hold the power to open yourself up to new opportunities.