Welcome to the Instruction Toolkit

ACRL Standards

• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards - Abridged

• ACRL Information Literacy Standards - Complete with Learning Outcomes

How is Information Created?

• The Publication Cycle  (from "Evolution of Scientific Information." From Allen Kent and Harold Lancour, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (New York, 1979), s.v. "Scientific Literature," by K. Subramanyam, 394.)

Where Can Scholarly Information Be Found?

• How to Search for Books and other Library Materials
• How to Search for Scholarly Journal Articles

         Journals vs Magazines--recognize scholarly information quickly

• Using Metadata--quickly find information you can trust 

Search Techniques

• Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)--a graphic simulator to visualize this technique (by Rockwell Schrock)
• More Boolean!
• Advanced search combining Boolean with (parentheses) (by CSU Libraries)
• Truncation (by CSU Libraries) 
• Phrase
   
• Constructing a complex search starting with common terminology (MPG4 Video) (PDF)
   

Evaluating Web Sites
 

• QUAIL method PPT
• Web site evaluation Worksheet
• Alexa method of Web evaluation online tutorial  (from the Library Information Online Network: LION)
   

Information Management...Keeping Track of Everything
 

It's difficult to keep track of large amounts of electronic information gathered from databases and the web. This process is made much simpler with online tools as well as software programs that run on your computer.

• ZOTERO, Delicious and bibme

Bibliographies

What are they, what do they do, and how would I create one?

• Annotated Bibliography -- MLA 
• Annotated Bibliography -- APA
• Creating Citations Using Word 2007  (from the Library Information Online Network: LION)
• APA Examples and Assessment (from the University of Arizona)
   

Interested in RSS?
 

Instead of looking for specific types of information, let the most current information find you.

• How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed

• An RSS Table of Contents (TOC) From a Publisher

Open Access Information Literacy Tutorials

A popular and highly interactive tutorial with assessments  http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/index.html

A directory of over 200 tutorials  http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search1.cfm