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Information Literacy

This guide offers information literacy resources that faculty can use in the classroom.

Information Literacy Skills That Can Be Taught By Librarians

Browse through the menu below of information literacy skills that can be taught by a librarian then fill out the information literacy request form to request an instruction session.  This list is not exhaustive.  Please feel free to talk to your liaison about other instructional possibilities.

INFORMATION LITERACY SKILL

EXAMPLES

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AS A RESEARCH TOOL
  • AI - Literature review tools
  • AI - Writing Chat GPT prompts for research
  • AI - How to cite
RESEARCH BASICS
  • Developing a research question
  • Different resources (ex: scholarly/peer reviewed articles/journals, popular journals, trade journals, government documents etc...
HOW TO USE THE LIBRARY DATABASES
  • Picking the right database for your assignment
  • Differences in the Gale databases
HOW TO WRITE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Structure of an annotated bibliography
  • What is actually included in each annotation
HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE REVIEW
  • Picking your topic
  • Locating articles
  • Organizing the literature review
USING INFORMATION ETHICALLY AND WRITING CITATIONS
  • What is intellectual property?
  • Why do we cite sources?
  • APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, Other?
EVALUATING RESOURCES
  • Online resources (ex: social media, fact checking online sources etc...)
  • Academic resources (ex: scholarly/peer reviewed articles/journals)
ENDNOTE
  • How to set up an EndNote account
  • How to use EndNote to organize your research
SUGGEST SOMETHING! The possibilities are endless!