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Information Literacy Skills Development (ILSD)

This guide introduces faculty to definitions, issues, resources, and librarian-supported workshops and instructional sessions.

About Library Instruction Sessions

 

http://studietips.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/files/2012/10/workshop1.jpgGroup and individual library and information literacy support is offered throughout the year on a range of topics such as, but not limited to:

  • APA, MLA, CSE, and Chicago Citation and Referencing
  • Research skills
  • Website evaluation
  • Using various database interfaces and limiters
  • Identifying and critically evaluating sources
  • Avoiding plagiarism
  • Maintaining academic integrity
  • Identifying appropriate database (EBSCO is NOT a database)

Work with your Librarian to arrange workshops and tailored sessions for your courses.  Workshops are:

  • collaborative
  • engaging
  • active-learning
  • topic or course specific

What Your Librarian Can Do!

 

Librarians are experts in information retrieval and literacy at all levels of education.  We spend dozens of hour researching and navigating a host of information sources and resources.  Librarians can:

  • deliver workshops that meet course and assignment learning objectives
  • build tutorials and learning objects
  • design course specific and customized Research Guides
  • help identify relevant, appropriate, and accessible resources for assignments and courses 

What more can we do?

Create Better Research Assignments Create Tiered Research Assignments Embed Smaller Research Components
  • Process over product; tiered paper approach
  • Thesis/topic meeting
  • Explain citations
  • Suggest alternatives to the 5-7 pages
  • Research log/journal
  • Explain source types

 

  • Annotated bibliography
  • Preliminary bibliography
  • Suggest disciplinary sources
  • Literature review
  • Mid-point check (citation and sources)
  • Explain terminology (primary vs. secondary)
  • Bibliographic essay

  • Explain information cycle
     
     

Workshop Topics

Workshop length for each topic varies.

Basic Intermediate Advanced
  • Orientation to library resources
  • Efficient searching with licensed databases
  • Database searching (controlled vocabularies, subject, date, evidence based, research conversation)
  • Select and refine topic
  • Citing sources (APA, MLA, CSE, Chicago)
  • Government documents
  • Keyword development and searching
  • Searching with Goggle Scholar
  • Grey literature
  • Search All exploration
  • Understanding the peer-review process
  
  • Information sources (scholarly/popular primary/secondary, information creation cycle)
  • Locating statistics and data
  
  • Locating background information (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks)
  • Evaluating sources (print and online)
  
  • Academic Integrity and Avoiding Plagiarism
  
  • Understanding a citation