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How Do I Know If I've Found Good Information on the Web?

Quality Information Checklist. Use these eight questions to help you decide which information is best.

After you find information you need to decide if it is clear and helpful.
Here are some clues to help you.

 

1. Can you tell where the information came from? The web page should have the author's name, occupation, mail address, or e-mail address.
 

 

 

 
 
2. Is the web page easy to use? Or did you spend a lot of time trying to figure out where to get your information?
 

 

 

 
 
3. Can you tell when the web page was written? Every web page should have the date it was published and the date it was most recently changed.
 

 

 

 
 
4. Are there links to information on other web pages? Are there lists of books or magazine articles where you may find more information?
 

 

 

 

 
 
5. Is there any way to communicate with people at the site if you need more information from them?
 

 

 

 

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Please report suggestions, additions, and notice of obsolete links to the Library Media Center Staff. Date Last Modified: 9/25/00.

Copyright Notice: This text, all Internet site annotations, and library logo copyright 1997 by the Department of Libraries and Information Technologies, Lexington Public Schools, Lexington, Massachusetts. Permission granted to print this page for non-commercial purposes only in its entirety.
This page was developed during the summer of 1997 and 1998, supported by a Lexington Education Foundation grant to the Lexington Public School's Department of Libraries and Information Technologies. Authors and developers were Linda Corbett, Library Media Specialist, Fiske Elementary School; Margaret Donovan, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High School and Web Manager; Susan Lum, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High School; Martha Stanton, Coordinator, Libraries and Information Technologies; Arden Veley, Library Media Specialist, Clarke Middle School; and Caryn Werlin, Library Media Specialist, Bridge Elementary School.