Information Literacy: a selective annotated bibliography

Best Practices for Creating Effective Library Assignments

Information Literacy: a selective annotated webliography

Courses and Tutorials Library Assignments Info Competency Links Standards

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Courses & Tutorials

The Data Game: The most fun students will have learning about the library! Created by Colorado State University Library. Must have correct software downloaded to view Authorware files.

"Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation : A guide for library instruction": by Jim Kapoun, a reference and instruction librarian at Southwest State University.

INTERNET NAVIGATOR: Utah’s First On-line Multi-Institutional Internet Course.: This course requires a Flash enabled browser.

TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial: This is probably the best web-based interactive tutorial introducing research resources and skills.

UCLA College Library exercise on how to evaluate web sites.: This site is designed for undergraduates and provides information on web evaluation.

Library Assignment Pages

CSULB librarians by subject: Get to know your Subject Librarian! Schedule instruction sessions or get assistance with designing information literate library assignments!

Creating Effective Library Assignments (University of Maryland): This site provides a nice outline of why and how to design library assignments.

Effective library assignments (Bowling Green University): Another site with tips for designing library assignments. Also provides interesting alternatives to traditional term papers.

Tips for Library Assignments (UC Berkeley): This site provides detailed information regarding copyright issues and other useful tips that can be applied to any library and university course.

What you ask for is what you get: Some Do's and Don't for assigning library research projects (Carleton University, Canada): This site will give you a "Library Checklist" for designing library research assignments.

Information Competency Links

Information Competence Initiative: This site is the focal point for the California State University Information Competence Initiative as well as provides links to other information literacy resources.

"Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy": edited by Drew Smith and sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida.

Information Literacy Primer: Association of College & Research Libraries/ACRL’s Institute for Information Literacy primer on information literacy for faculty and academic administrators.

"Information Literacy Sites; Background and Ideas for Program Planning and Development": by Esther Grassian and Susan E. Clark. College & Research Libraries News, February 1999.
"Understanding Information Literacy": U.S. Department of Education publication by Barbara Humes from the Office of Educational Research, National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries and Lifelong Learning.