Teaching information literacy threshold concepts : lesson plans for librarians / edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, Gayle Schaub.

"Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students underst...

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Other Authors: Bravender, Patricia (Editor), McClure, Hazel (Editor), Schaub, Gayle (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, A division of the American Library Association, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scholarship as conversation. The conversational nature of sources of information / Andrea Baer ; Using information as a springboard to research / Emily Frigo & Jessalyn Richter ; Mapping scholarly conversation / Kathleen Anne Langan ; Crafting a credible message / Debbie Morrow ; Starting points : the role of blogs in scholarly conversation / Brandon West
  • Research as inquiry. Flawed questions : tools for inquiry / Dr. Smita Avasthi ; Crime scene investigation as an analogy for scholarly inquiry / Robert Farrell ; The research discussion / Charissa Jefferson ; Developing a research question : topic selection / Kevin Michael Klipfel ; The connection between personal and academic research / Sarah Naumann & Sami Lange
  • Authority is constructed and contextual. Evaluating information sources / Robert Farrell ; Determining the relevance and reliability of information sources / Nancy Fawley ; Establishing and applying evaluation criteria / Steven Hoover ; Non-scholarly formats as research tools / Rachel M. Minkin ; Scholarly/non-scholarly / Jo Angela Oehrli & Emily Hamstra
  • Information creation as a process. Using sources to support a claim / Dani Brecher ; Information life cycle / Toni M. Carter & Todd Aldridge ; Tracing information over time / Xan Goodman
  • Searching as strategic exploration. From nothing to something : transforming the "failed" search / Ika Datig ; Context through citation / Jenny Fielding ; What is a database? / Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, & Xan Goodman ; Who cares? : understanding the human production of information / Rebecca Kuglitsch ; Password : keyword edition / Melissa Langridge ; Approaching problems like a professional / Melissa Mallon ; Databases vs. search engines game / Elizabeth Martin & Rebecca Daly ; Keywording / Cate Calhoun Oravet ; Framing a topic for library research / Melissa Browne, Caitlin Plovnick, Cathy Palmer, & Richard Caldwell ; Systems of organization / Peter Ramsey & Stephen "Mike" Kiel
  • Information has value. Gray areas in plagiarism cases / Dr. Smita Avasthi ; The who, what, and why of the creative commons / Rebecca Bliquez & Jane Van Galen ; Plagiarism v. copyright infringement / Patricia Bravender ; Recognizing plagiarism / Patricia Bravender & Gayle Schaub ; Louder than words : using infographics to teach the value of information and authority / Hazel McClure & Christopher Toth ; Ethical use of information in presentations / Debbie Morrow
  • Lessons with overlapping information literacy threshold concepts
  • Appendix. Lesson handouts ; ACRL framework for information ; Literacy for higher education.