Finding Statistics - About the Finding Statistics Tutorial

Partial funding for this tutorial was provided by a Teaching-Learning Development Program grant from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Illinois State University. Lisa Hinchliffe, Coordinator of Information Literacy Services and Instruction - University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, and Lynda Duke, MS candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, were responsible for the design and development of the tutorial. We would like to thank the following individuals for their assistance with the tutorial: Angela Bonnell Michael Brun Gary Klass Becky Ladd Diane Mather Sharon Naylor Mary Rotsch Resources used to create the content of the tutorial include: Paula Berinstein, Finding Statistics Online: How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need, (Medford, NJ : Information Today, 1998). Carol A. Hert and Gary Marchionini, "Information Seeking Behavior on Statistical Websites: Theoretical and Design Implications," (ASIS 1998 Contributed Papers - Electronic Scholarship Part 1). Jean L. Sears and Marilyn K. Moody, Using Government Publications, Volume 1: Searching by Subjects and Agencies, (Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1985). Jean L. Sears and Marilyn K. Moody, Using Government Publications, Volume 2: Finding Statistics and Using Special Techniques, (Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1986).