Faculty Instruction
Information Literacy Modules
- Basics
- Basic understanding of the Internet
- Distinguish scholarly from popular communication
- Distinguish primary from secondary information sources
- Information Cycles
- Acquire a basic understanding of information production and distribution
- Identify differences among information source types
- Topics
- Select an appropriate topic for research
- Generate questions from a topic
- Broaden and narrow a question
- Identify key concepts and vocabularies related to a topic
- Broaden and narrow concepts and vocabularies related to a topic
- Searching
- Distinguish a database from other types of information collections
- Identify the coverage of a database
- Understand the concept of field, or advanced searching in a database
- Construct effective search queries using logical operators and related strategies
- Finding
- Determine the nature of a source from a citation
- Use citations to find physical sources
- Locate sources using classification systems
- Basic understanding of library collections and services
- Evaluating
- Develop a basic set of criteria for evaluating your search strategy
- Develop a basic set of criteria for evaluating information sources