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KELLAN ALEXANDRA BRADLEY CAMPUS LIFESTYLE EDITOR KBRADLEY.ROUNDUPNEWS@GMAIL.COM

During the spring and fall semester, the Academic Success Center along with the library, will offer workshops to focus on teaching students what they need to learn in order to succeed.

One of the many workshops being offered this month is TMI: How to successfully use information from the web.

Pierce College librarian, Mario Macias, will be teaching the workshop. Macias has worked at the library for over six years. Librarians that submit a proposal for a specific workshop get a chance to teach their own class.

“This is a way that we can focus on a specific subject like searching the web and bring it to the students in a more one-on-one form,” said Macias.

In this worskhop students will learn how to use the information they find on the internet in the correct way. It’s important for students to learn how to search the web effectively in college because it can be critical in the grades you receive on your assignments.

Mario will also be teaching students how to indicate if a website is credible or not. Sometimes the way a website is designed can be a way to really trick a student into think it is a credible source.

“We can sometimes be attracted by a way a