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The Institute's Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills initiative underscores the critical role that museums and libraries play in helping citizens build such 21st century skills as information, communications and technology literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, civic literacy, and global awareness.

Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes. Information Literacy shares a fundamental set of core thinking- and problem-solving meta-skills with other disciplines. Authentic cross-disciplinary problems which include observation and inference, analysis of symbols and models, comparison of perspectives, and assessment of the rhetorical context, engage students in developing mastery information literacy over time.

This flash-based slide show covers the main points how external evidence is critical to establishing credibility, where to find it and how to use it. An interactive tutorial accompanies the presentation. This material is part of our 8-part Web Site Investigator (WSI) series that may be used directly by students for training in evaluation skills