Consider how a school library program collection provides access information at each stage of the academic information cycle. What are the implications if people have access to information from only one stage of the cycle?

Each stage of the information cycle News, Scholarly and Books may be accessed electronically or hard book copies within a school library (KLA referencing). As each stage of the information cycle is as important as the previous stage, if access to information from only one of these stages of the cycle occurred implications may occur. Access to news only, will provide students with facts and fables. Without access to Scholarly articles students will not have the resources to distinguish between fact and fiction. With access to books only, students may not identify the relevance or significance of all the specific information compiled into the one source of information. Access to only one stage of the information cycle may create significant gaps in students learning and understanding of information provided to them.