by LIS101 | Jul 24, 2017 | Blogs, Pedagogy, Readings, Research Skills |
by Amanda Hovious of The Designer Librarian and Todd Heldt of LIS101 As a PhD student in Information Science, I have been chewing on one problem in particular: What are the missing components of information literacy instruction? What is not currently being addressed?...
by LIS101 | Jul 18, 2017 | Blogs, Research Skills |
Your research needs will most often be determined by your assignment. How many sources will you need? Do they need to be scholarly, primary, or secondary? Should you use a newspaper or government source? A research task may or may not come with stipulations about...
by LIS101 | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized |
By Brody Mullins and Jack Nicas July 11, 2017 Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from Harvard...
by LIS101 | Jun 15, 2017 | Assignments |
Guided Research Scavenger Hunt – Digging Deeper Into a Pop-Culture Phenomenon Use books, credible internet resources, and/or journal articles to answer the following questions about Cesar Millan. Cite your source(s) for each answer using both MLA and APA. The steps...
by LIS101 | May 2, 2017 | libguides, Research Skills |
When investigating your subject, books can provide in-depth coverage, overviews of topics, historical and/or social context, chronology, and lists of other sources to study. You needn’t necessarily read a book cover to cover to cite it in your research paper, but you...
by LIS101 | Mar 15, 2017 | Readings, Research Skills |
One example of how businesses use information is seen in the “environmental scan,” which is a concept that has existed since the 1960s. The idea is that organizations should keep an eye on the “environment” in order to make informed decisions about future challenges....
by LIS101 | Mar 7, 2017 | Articles, Readings, Uncategorized |
By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from...
by LIS101 | Feb 25, 2017 | Pedagogy, Readings |
The 21st Annual Illinois Community College Assessment Fair was excellent, and Norbert Elliot’s keynote questioning the traditional values of assessment, such as validity and reliability, and proposing more attention to fairness in design, was extremely...
by LIS101 | Feb 2, 2017 | libguides, Research Skills |
The Information Life Cycle Because of the information life cycle, where you look for information depends in large part on when it happened. For reasons of public interest, technology, and economics, information moves through society at a somewhat predictable pace....
by LIS101 | Jan 26, 2017 | libguides, Readings |
Definitions and Explanations A primary source is an original object or document from a specific time or event under study. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, interviews, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, survey data,...
by LIS101 | Jan 24, 2017 | Readings, Webpages |
AllSides claims to “expose bias and provides multiple angles on the same story,” so readers can better understand the full context of a story. The website hosts stories from across the political spectrum so that readers can make side-by-side comparisons. ...
by LIS101 | Jan 24, 2017 | Assignments, Lesson Plans |
From the CORA about page: CORA stands for Community of Online Research Assignments. It is an open access resource for faculty and librarians. It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments and sharing the success or...
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2017 | Pedagogy, Uncategorized |
In my past life when I was an adjunct English teacher, one of my most dreaded semesterly duties was to take my class to the library for instruction. One would expect the librarians at my arts college in Chicago to be creative and interesting, exposed as they...
by LIS101 | Dec 8, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
Fake news is in the headlines, and already a phalanx of tech-savvy students have come to our rescue by creating apps to root out verified and unverified stories. The effort is commendable, and the technology impressive. Unfortunately, the problem is harder to solve...
by LIS101 | Nov 19, 2016 | Research Skills |
A skilled writer may defy any of these ethical considerations without his audience being able to spot it. Below are listed additional caveats that may not necessarily mean that a source is inaccurate, irrelevant, or otherwise unusable, but which should definitely...
by LIS101 | Nov 17, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized |
MAY 9, 2011 BY KENNETH OLMSTEAD, AMY MITCHELL AND TOM ROSENSTIEL Where People Go, How They Get There and What Lures Them Away Overall, the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These...
by LIS101 | Nov 14, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Things to tell students to look for when they interact with information and information sources: Authority Source has a record of publishing credible information Source is a popular press journal that does not cover subjects in-depth Source has a record of...
by LIS101 | Nov 5, 2016 | Articles |
Fact-checkers and students approach websites differently By Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew November 1, 2016 Did Donald Trump support the Iraq War? Hillary Clinton says yes. He says no. Who’s right? In search of answers, many of us ask our kids to...
by LIS101 | Oct 8, 2016 | Boolean operators, libguides, Research Skills |
Because most research tasks are complex, they require more than one search strategy. Additionally, such tasks require students to organize and synthesize the results of those searches into one cohesive document. This handout intends to introduce students to that...
by LIS101 | Sep 28, 2016 | Boolean operators, Research Skills |
This handy .pdf will help you teach your students about Boolean operators and how to use them to create search strategies! Duck, Duck, Goose, Boolean Operator