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Instructor's Guide for Information Literacy Instruction

Welcome!

This guide is intended to provide assistance to those wishing to accomplish information literacy objectives in their classes. Please do not share this guide with students, it contains sample quizzes!

The Association for College and Research Libraries defines information literacy as "the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use information."1 This guide is divided into each of those three areas, with videos and assessments provided to teach corresponding skills.

Our Recommendations

What we recommend:  –  flipped classroom style

Out-of-class: 45 minutes of homework (31 minutes of videos, 14 minutes of assessments)

  • Critical Thinking about Information video (3 minutes)
  • Evaluating Information for its Reliability (3 minutes)
  • Popular & Scholarly Sources (3.5 minutes)
  • Keywords and Synonyms video (3 minutes)
  • Boolean & Truncation video (3 minutes)
  • Finding Full Text Resources (3 minutes)
  • Subject Searching video (3 minutes)
  • Interlibrary Loan video (3 minutes)
  • Understanding Plagiarism video (3.5 minutes)
  • Avoiding Plagiarism video (3 minutes)
  • Understanding Citation video (3 minutes)
  • Getting Started with Citation video (3 minutes)
  • Students complete a short assessment for each video

Workshop with a Librarian: 50 minute session on campus or online

Note: if you would like a course-related worksheet, please let us know a week in advance and we’ll create one, staff time permitting.

Use the tutorials to help teach critical thinking skills as listed in ASU's Core Curriculum Matrix.

 

Enroll Your Class

Use the following link to enroll your class for access to our Information Literacy Tutorials with Quizzes. Select the class you’d like to be enrolled and click “enroll selected classes.” Your course will be enrolled within the next business day. Access remains throughout the semester unless you enter a deadline date.

When you’d like to check your students’ grades, please log on to the Blackboard program.

Schedule a Session

To request an information literacy session with a librarian, use the Library Instruction Request Form.

Or contact us directly:

Kimberly Wirth, Coordinator of Information Literacy/Research Librarian: kimberly.wirth@angelo.edu or (325) 486-6527

Mark Allan, Assistant Director for Research & Instructional Services: mark.allan@angelo.edu or (325) 486-6535