In fact, some faculty members may exclude most print resources in favor of Web pages. If you are an instructional librarian, you know that the Web, in its ever-changing formats, is seemingly here to stay. However, some of the students and faculty members who attend my instruction classes take on a different view, especially the traditional aged undergraduate college student. The assumption is not true, of course, but it is an almost impossible task to refute.
Students seem to gravitate to the Web first and grudgingly consult paper materials after.
Five criteria for Web evaluation When teaching the Web to students, I include a section on evaluation. I pattern my Web evaluation lecture like a librarian who evaluates print items for inclusion into a library collection. To develop this model I had to first acknowledge that most students today tend to conduct research with speed rather than accuracy and rarely evaluate resources. So the criteria I present must be digestible and almost transparent to the student. In other words, the student must be trained to evaluate a Web document like second nature.