October 21, 2005

Purdue U. Creates Endowed Chair in Information Literacy

By SCOTT CARLSON

It's a common complaint among librarians and scholars: When sent out to research almost any topic, students run first to Google and take what the search engine has to offer, whether or not it is the best information available.

"What we were finding is that because there is such a deluge of information out there, ... kids are not using information effectively," says Alexius S. Macklin, an associate professor of library science at Purdue University who studies information-literacy