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LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics
This text is written to help students gain the information literacy skills that enable them to find, retrieve, gather, analyze, and use information from a variety of print and electronic sources so they can prosper as students, citizens and life-long learners.
- Author
- Sara Klein
- Publisher
- City Colleges of Chicago
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 109 sections
- 01: What is Information Literacy
- 1.01: Readings
- 1.1.01: Information Literacy
- 1.1.02: Types of Resources
- 1.1.03: The library research process
- 1.1.04: The information lifecycle
- 1.02: Classroom Activity
- 1.03: Assignment
- 02: Organization of Information in Libraries
- 2.01: Readings
- 2.1.01: The Library of Congress classification system
- 2.1.02: In-text divisions
- 2.1.03: Finding books in the library
- 2.1.04: Library database organization
- 2.02: Classroom Activity
- 2.03: Assignment
- 03: Bias in Information
- 3.01: Readings
- 3.02: Classroom Activity
- 3.03: Assignment
- 04: Designing and Building a Search
- 4.01: Readings
- 4.1.01: Database searching
- 4.1.02: The Toolbox
- 4.1.03: Database searching pro-tips
- 4.02: Classroom Activity
- 4.03: Assignment
- 05: Citations and Plagiarism
- 5.01: Readings
- 5.1.01: Scholarship as a conversation
- 5.1.02: Plagiarism
- 5.1.03: Citation basics
- 5.1.04: Notes on quoting paraphrasing and summarizing
- 5.02: Classroom Activity
- 5.03: Assignment
- 06: Evaluating Sources
- 6.01: Readings
- 6.1.01: The SIFT Method
- 6.02: Classroom Activity
- 6.03: Assignment
- 07: Annotations
- 7.01: Readings
- 7.02: Classroom Activity
- 7.03: Assignment
- 08: Intellectual Property
- 8.01: Readings
- 8.1.01: Copyright
- 8.1.02: Fair use
- 8.1.03: Copyright and AI
- 8.1.04: Creative Commons
- 8.1.05: Public domain
- 8.02: Classroom Activity
- 8.03: Assignment
- 09: Information in Our Daily Lives
- 9.01: Readings
- 9.1.01: People as information sources
- 9.1.02: Social media
- 9.1.03: Big data
- 9.02: Classroom Activity
- 9.03: Assignment
- 10: Visual Literacy
- 10.01: Readings
- 10.1.01: Visual images
- 10.1.02: Visual analysis
- 10.1.03: Graphics and advertising
- 10.1.04: Data visualization and infographics
- 10.1.05: Emojis
- 10.1.06: Memes
- 10.1.07: Citing visual works
- 10.02: Classroom Activity
- 10.03: Assignment
- 11: Science Literacy
- 11.01: Readings
- 11.1.01: The scientific method
- 11.1.02: Science literature
- 11.1.03: Using science literacy
- 11.02: Classroom Activity
- 11.03: Assignment
- 12: Censorship
- 12.01: Readings
- 12.1.01: Soft censorship
- 12.1.02: Direct censorship
- 12.1.03: Censorship on the internet
- 12.02: Classroom Activity
- 12.03: Assignment
- 13: Truth and Disorder- Mis- Dis- and Malinformation
- 13.01: Readings
- 13.1.01: Fake news
- 13.1.02: Clickbait
- 13.1.03: Deepfakes
- 13.1.04: Conspiracy theories
- 13.1.05: Restoring order- Information hygiene and information environmentalism
- 13.02: Classroom Activity
- 13.03: Assignment
- 14: Artificial Intelligence
- 14.01: Readings
- 14.1.01: Generative AI
- 14.1.02: ChatGPT
- 14.1.03: AI and ethics
- 14.02: Classroom Activity
- 14.03: Assignment
- 15: Using Information for Good
- 15.01: Readings
- 15.1.01: Information ethics
- 15.1.02: Information equity
- 15.1.03: Sharing information online
- 15.1.04: Ways to make a difference
- 15.02: Classroom Activity
- 15.03: Assignment