Information Literacy

Name: Information Literacy | Search Strategies, Tools & Resources for High School Students and College Freshmen
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Search Strategies, Tools & Resources for High School Students and College Freshmen

Zorana Ercegovac(Autor*in)

Linworth Publishing

2. Auflage

Erschienen am 1. Mai 2008

186 Seiten

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Exercises
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1: Introduction to Basic Research Skills
Location of informal information sources (unpublished material)
Location of formal information sources (published material)
Location of information via "filters": Finding a needle in a haystack
How people look up information: From hunter-gatherer to sophisticated user
Search strategy roadmap
Types of questions
Characteristics of reference sources
Types of reference sources: factual, bibliographic
Time of sources
Format of sources
Same content--different media
Level of detail
Asking a good question or shaping a topic for your term paper
What you have learned
Think Guide #1: Topic Narrowing Exercise
Chapter 2: Finding Search Words
How do we access publications?
Getting started: How to be in a driver's seat throughout your research journey
Last word
Other ways of searching by subject
Classification system
The power of call numbers
What you have learned
Think Guide #2: Finding Search Words
Chapter 3: Search Strategies
Basic operators: AND
Basic operators: OR
Basic operators: NOT
Search strategy
Known-item search
Building block search
Modification: Broadening and narrowing down your search
Broadening your search strategy
Narrowing your search strategy
What you have learned
Think Guide #3: Search Strategies
Chapter 4: Fact Finding: Words, Concepts, Events, Places
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Dictionaries defined
Characteristics of dictionaries
Encyclopedias defined
Main types of encyclopedias
How to use encyclopedias
Other factual sources
Almanacs, yearbooks, handbooks, and directories defined
Locating geographic sources
What you have learned
Chapter 5: Fact Finding: People, Reviews, Criticism
Biographical sources
Characteristics of biographical sources
Organization of biographical sources
Living people
Deceased people
General remarks
Why would you look for a review?
Literary criticism
What you have learned
Chapter 6: Finding Works in Library Collections
What are library catalogs?
Main objectives of library catalogs
Search tips--How to avoid "zero results
Beyond your local library catalog
Putting library objectives into practice: Examples form Melvyl[sup(® )] and beyond
What you have learned
Chapter 7: Searching & Evaluating Internet Sources
Introduction to the Internet: A brief look
How to think critically about Web contents
URLs of governmental information sources
URLs of education-related sources
Internet as a world wide digital collection
Search engines
Subject directories and meta-search engines
Invisible Web search tools
What you have learned
Think Guide #4: Evaluation of Web Sources
Chapter 8: Finding Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Introduction to online databases
Examples of searching from ProQuest
Examples from SIRS
Examples of searching from EBSCOhost
Examples from JSTOR
Examples from ARTstor
Indexes to collections of poems, short stories, and songs
Indexes to historical newspapers online
Putting it all together (especially important for instructors)
What you have learned
Think Guide #5: Thinking Critically about Articles
Chapter 9: Citing in Style and Summarizing
Why is citing important?
Bibliographic style manuals
Case 1- Question #1: how to cite a book?
Case 2- Question #2: how to cite an encyclopedia article (printed version)
Case 3- Question #3: how to cite an encyclopedia article (Web version)
Case 4- Question #4: how to cite a story in a collected work
Case 5- Question #5: how to cite an article
Case 6- Question #6: Footnotes, endnotes
Case 7- Cybercitation templates
How to write summaries
How to critically summarize (annotate) a book: an example
How to critically summarize (annotate) an article: an example
What you have learned
Think Guide #6: Honor Principle Discussed and Applied
Bibliography
Appendices
A: Alignment Between Information Literacy and Technology Standards
B: Goals and Means to Achieve Them
C: College Libraries Are Not Just Larger School Libraries
D: Getting Started with Primary Sources
E: Science Projects in Context
F: Collaborative Sample Project in Arts
G: Sample Projects in Social Sciences
H1: The Dewey Decimal Classification
H2: Mapping Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) to Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
I: Pre-Test: A Baseline for Information Literacy Skills
J: Scoring Rubrics: Examples for Information Literacy Projects
K: Post-Test: An Example for Take Home Final Quiz
L: Online Databases: A Checklist for Evaluating Online Services
M: Self-Reflection: Getting Insight into Students' Level of Awareness
N: Summarizing Sources
O: Cited Reference Printed Sources
P: Evaluation of Sources
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