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Information Literacy and Research Instruction

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Our librarians partner with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍøÖ±²¥ faculty and instructors to help students find, use and interpret information.

Through our library instruction, we help students use critical thinking to strengthen their information literacy core competencies by:

  • Exploring topics and creating research plans.
  • Using search techniques to locate information for research.
  • Synthesizing and interpreting information.
  • Considering ethical and legal issues when using information.

Information literacy in your course

We can help you incorporate information literacy into your course curriculum in several ways:

Resources for your students

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Student consultations

Our librarians can provide one-on-one research instruction for your students. This is often most effective for students in upper-level courses in which research is individualized (e.g., senior thesis research or baccalaureate-level writing papers). For research projects assigned to an entire class, it is much more effective for a librarian to provide course-related research instruction to the whole class at once.
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Created by °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍøÖ±²¥ librarians, our subject and course guides can assist students with course work and research projects. These guides feature recommended resources and tools tailored to a specific academic topic or a specific course.