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Library Database Trials

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

Library Chat will return in September.

During the Spring Term and Summer months, librarians remain available to answer questions and provide research assistance in person, by email and by phone.

Please visit the Ask a Librarian page for details.

 

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: