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Try out these new library databases, available for a limited time only.

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If you would like to talk further about any aspect of information literacy, please contact your subject librarian.


Library Chat

You may ask a question and chat with a librarian at the Research Help Desk whenever the Research Help Desk is open.

Service hours are posted on the Library Hours page.

 

Information Literacy Teaching Activities:

The following is a list of fairly quick-and-easy teaching activities that librarians and faculty can use to help students develop specific information literacy skills.

Human Boolean Logic
Human Citation Styles
Scholarly vs. Popular Sources
Web Site Evaluation
Evaluating Sources - Introduction
Evaluating Sources - Real World Practice
Understanding Disciplinary Approaches

Other lists of activities are available, including:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Activities cover: selecting appropriate sources, narrowing a topic, popular magazines vs. scholarly journals, generating keywords, basic keyword searching, understanding citations, evaluating web sites, and considering intellectual freedom and censorship.


Information Literacy at Mount Allison: