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Information Literacy

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Improve your information literacy. Learn about strategies for finding information—from a library, archive, database, or the Internet—and the ethics of using what you find.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What is information literacy?
1. Types of Resources
  • The information cycle
  • Books/ebooks
  • Archives
  • Periodical publications
  • Databases
  • Visual resources
  • Alternative resources
  • The Internet, blogs, and social media
  • Wikipedia
2. Search Strategies
  • Identifying your information needs
  • How to clarify your topic
  • Search terms and methods: Keyword vs. controlled vocabulary
  • Search terms and methods: Boolean searching
  • Using a research database
3. Resource Evaluation
  • Beyond Google
  • The web vs. databases
  • Scholarly vs. popular publications
  • Criteria for evaluating information
  • Primary vs. secondary sources
4. Ethical Use of Information
  • Copyright and fair use
  • Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it
  • Image appropriation
5. Citation
  • What is citation and why cite?
  • How to cite
  • Citation for visual images and media
  • Annotated bibliographies
6. Information Literacy for Art and Design
  • Why art/design students need to learn research and use libraries
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Elsa Loftis

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