February 4, 2005

Librarians' Role in Helping Students Sift Through Information

To the Editor:

Stanley Wilder's assumptions are wrong and harmful to the education of students ("Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions," The Chronicle Review, January 7).

Students do have difficulty finding, evaluating, and using information appropriately and ethically, and we have the data to prove it from multiyear, quantitative, and qualitative studies undertaken in the California State University System. ...

That is why members of the CSU library