Information Literacy and Technology

Information Literacy And Technology

Mission Statement: To help students become wise information consumers and lifelong learners, by developing in them the abilities to effectively find, evaluate and apply information.

General Information Literacy Goals:

Framing the research question
Accessing sources Evaluating sources
Analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating content
Using information for specific purpose
Understanding issues affecting the use of information (observing laws, regulations and institutional policies)
Assess the information seeking process and product

Specific Information Literacy Goals/Outcomes:
See Florida International University
YCP (York College of Pennsylvania)

Courses that Promote information literacy include:

Classroom activities on finding, evaluating, citing, and using information in print and electronic sources from the Swedenborg Library, Internet, and other sources. Courses should address question concerning the ethical use of information, copyright, plagiarism, and other related issues.
Assignments, course work, or tutorials that make extensive use of the Swedenborg Library, Internet, and other informational sources. Assignments should include finding, evaluating, and citing information sources.
At least one research project that requires students to find, evaluate, cite, and use information presented in diverse formats from multiple sources and to integrate this information within a single project, paper, or report.

Information Literacy ACRL Standards

Tutotrials/Library Instructions
WebCat Interactive Tutorial
WebCat Tutorial
TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial that is recommended by SEPCHE librarians. A teaching tool for IL skills.
SERCHE The SouthEastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education (SEPCHE)
BEDFORD/ST.MARTIN's Research and Documentation
RDN Virtual Training Suite: - a set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE
NET.TUTOR
Project Sails project for the standardized assessment of information literacy skills
Information Literacy self-paced Tutorial
SatchLCall - Library of Congress Call Number System Tutorial

Citing Sources/Style Manuals
APA-Style Documentation
Chicago Style
MLA Style
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
Citation Machine
U.S. Copyright Office

Information Literacy Assessments & Tests:
Information Literacy Assessment

Articles, Books, And Materials
I-Link The Swedenborg Library electronic catalog. The Catalog provides an access to the Library's collection and also to the collections of the SecondarySchoolsMediaCenter, the TheologicalSchool, and GlencairnMuseum.
Infotrack
World News Digest
Ingenta Select Providing access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers, the Ingenta Select service provides fast and reliable access from a global network of servers to users' desktops around the world.
The WWW virtual Library