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LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics

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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
  1. 01: What is Information Literacy
  2. 1.01: Readings
  3. 1.1.01: Information Literacy
  4. 1.1.02: Types of Resources
  5. 1.1.03: The library research process
  6. 1.1.04: The information lifecycle
  7. 1.02: Classroom Activity
  8. 1.03: Assignment
  9. 02: Organization of Information in Libraries
  10. 2.01: Readings
  11. 2.1.01: The Library of Congress classification system
  12. 2.1.02: In-text divisions
  13. 2.1.03: Finding books in the library
  14. 2.1.04: Library database organization
  15. 2.02: Classroom Activity
  16. 2.03: Assignment
  17. 03: Bias in Information
  18. 3.01: Readings
  19. 3.02: Classroom Activity
  20. 3.03: Assignment
  21. 04: Designing and Building a Search
  22. 4.01: Readings
  23. 4.1.01: Database searching
  24. 4.1.02: The Toolbox
  25. 4.1.03: Database searching pro-tips
  26. 4.02: Classroom Activity
  27. 4.03: Assignment
  28. 05: Citations and Plagiarism
  29. 5.01: Readings
  30. 5.1.01: Scholarship as a conversation
  31. 5.1.02: Plagiarism
  32. 5.1.03: Citation basics
  33. 5.1.04: Notes on quoting paraphrasing and summarizing
  34. 5.02: Classroom Activity
  35. 5.03: Assignment
  36. 06: Evaluating Sources
  37. 6.01: Readings
  38. 6.1.01: The SIFT Method
  39. 6.02: Classroom Activity
  40. 6.03: Assignment
  41. 07: Annotations
  42. 7.01: Readings
  43. 7.02: Classroom Activity
  44. 7.03: Assignment
  45. 08: Intellectual Property
  46. 8.01: Readings
  47. 8.1.01: Copyright
  48. 8.1.02: Fair use
  49. 8.1.03: Copyright and AI
  50. 8.1.04: Creative Commons
  51. 8.1.05: Public domain
  52. 8.02: Classroom Activity
  53. 8.03: Assignment
  54. 09: Information in Our Daily Lives
  55. 9.01: Readings
  56. 9.1.01: People as information sources
  57. 9.1.02: Social media
  58. 9.1.03: Big data
  59. 9.02: Classroom Activity
  60. 9.03: Assignment
  61. 10: Visual Literacy
  62. 10.01: Readings
  63. 10.1.01: Visual images
  64. 10.1.02: Visual analysis
  65. 10.1.03: Graphics and advertising
  66. 10.1.04: Data visualization and infographics
  67. 10.1.05: Emojis
  68. 10.1.06: Memes
  69. 10.1.07: Citing visual works
  70. 10.02: Classroom Activity
  71. 10.03: Assignment
  72. 11: Science Literacy
  73. 11.01: Readings
  74. 11.1.01: The scientific method
  75. 11.1.02: Science literature
  76. 11.1.03: Using science literacy
  77. 11.02: Classroom Activity
  78. 11.03: Assignment
  79. 12: Censorship
  80. 12.01: Readings
  81. 12.1.01: Soft censorship
  82. 12.1.02: Direct censorship
  83. 12.1.03: Censorship on the internet
  84. 12.02: Classroom Activity
  85. 12.03: Assignment
  86. 13: Truth and Disorder- Mis- Dis- and Malinformation
  87. 13.01: Readings
  88. 13.1.01: Fake news
  89. 13.1.02: Clickbait
  90. 13.1.03: Deepfakes
  91. 13.1.04: Conspiracy theories
  92. 13.1.05: Restoring order- Information hygiene and information environmentalism
  93. 13.02: Classroom Activity
  94. 13.03: Assignment
  95. 14: Artificial Intelligence
  96. 14.01: Readings
  97. 14.1.01: Generative AI
  98. 14.1.02: ChatGPT
  99. 14.1.03: AI and ethics
  100. 14.02: Classroom Activity
  101. 14.03: Assignment
  102. 15: Using Information for Good
  103. 15.01: Readings
  104. 15.1.01: Information ethics
  105. 15.1.02: Information equity
  106. 15.1.03: Sharing information online
  107. 15.1.04: Ways to make a difference
  108. 15.02: Classroom Activity
  109. 15.03: Assignment