Information Literacy
Information literacy refers to the portable skills and awareness of scholarly conventions needed for successful and ethical academic work. While these skills and conventions need to be taught, few courses have this as their focus, instead focusing on discipline-specific content areas. As the increasing rate of plagiarism among students (and faculty) makes clear, we must all make it our responsibility to teach these skills.
Librarians, sometimes in collaboration with faculty, have taken on the task of instructing students in information literacy. The links below emerge from these information literacy initiatives.
For Faculty - Sample Assignments and Syllabi
- 01.21.2004 - Improving undergraduate research skills
- Creating Successful Research Skills Assignments
- Effective Assignments Using Library and Internet Resources
- HBLL: Faculty Guide - Instruction
- Information Literacy Resources for Faculty
- Lesson Plans at LibraryInstruction.com
- Lessons Learned: Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation
- Suggestions for Assignments
- Tips for Effective Library Research Assignments
About Information Literacy
- ALA | Conference Circuit: Integrating information literacy into the curriculum
- ALA | Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
- Bibliography of Print Resources on Library Instruction
- Christine Bruce: Seven Faces of Information Literacy in Higher Education
- Core information competencies: Ask Us: MIT Libraries
- Course Integrated Library Instruction
- Developing Competencies in Information Literacy
- Dowling College Library - Course Guides - LIB 101 Information Literacy
- Educom Review
- http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/excellenceaward/annearundelapplication.htm
- InfolitCSUH
- Information
- Information Literacy Articles at LibraryInstruction.Com.
- Information Literacy Definitions
- Information Literacy Resource Centre - For Faculty
- Information Literacy Standards (pdf)
- Information Navigator: MIT Libraries
- Library
- MLA Forum
Media Literacy
- Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
- Evaluating Free Web Info
- http://www.headsonfire.org/hof/index.html
- Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i )))
