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.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What is information literacy?
- The information cycle
- Books/ebooks
- Archives
- Periodical publications
- Databases
- Visual resources
- Alternative resources
- The Internet, blogs, and social media
- Wikipedia
- 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
- Beyond Google
- The web vs. databases
- Scholarly vs. popular publications
- Criteria for evaluating information
- Primary vs. secondary sources
- Copyright and fair use
- Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it
- Image appropriation
- What is citation and why cite?
- How to cite
- Citation for visual images and media
- Annotated bibliographies
- Why art/design students need to learn research and use libraries
- Next steps
Taught by
Elsa Loftis
