Information Literacy @ UWW

This book for instructional librarians assumes that classroom-based assessment does not have to take away from instruction time, or overwhelming complicated tasks. This book explores the adaptation of formative assessment theory into something that works for the library one-shot and more advanced instructor-librarian collaborations.

This book contains successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers from experts in the fields of library science, communication, composition, and education

Provides the information a media specialist needs to teach information literacy skills in a meaningful, useful, and strategic manner.

Provides the information a media specialist needs to teach information literacy skills in a meaningful, useful, and strategic manner.

Cardiff University Library’s Handbook for Information Literacy (4th edition) provides practical guidance and tips for librarians teaching information literacy.

In this book the authors present a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory through the concepts of metaliteracy. The concept of metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills (determine, access, locate, understand, produce, and use information) to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments (collaborate, produce, and share) prevalent in today's world.

The authors draw on their experience designing the BiblioBouts information literacy game, deploying it in college classrooms, and evaluating its effectiveness for teaching students how to conduct library research. The multi-modal evaluation of BiblioBouts involved qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analyses. Drawing on the evaluation, the authors describe how students played this particular information literacy game and make recommendations for the design of future information literacy games.

But what exactly is plagiarism? How has the meaning of this notoriously ambiguous term changed over time as a consequence of historical and cultural transformations? Is the practice on the rise, or just more easily detectable by technological advances? Is there really such a thing as “cryptomeria,” the unconscious, unintentional appropriation of another’s work? What are the mysterious motives and curious excuses of plagiarists? What forms of punishment and absolution does this “sin” elicit? What is the good in certain types of plagiarism?

Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. Alongside sample lesson plans, presentations, brochures, worksheets, handouts, and evaluation forms, the contributors offer proven approaches to teaching students in the most popular programs of study on college campuses.