information literacy (IL) activities

Library tour and discussion:
  • Organization of materials
  • Visuals in print resources
  • "New" formats (microforms, folios, digital, government documents)
  • Academic freedom, censorship
  • Free vs. fee-based information
Scavenger hunt to practice/assess IL outcomes related to finding information
libraries tour
online image searchingOnline searching
  • clues about images in online records
  • limiters, field searching
  • changing keywords for improved results
  • visual searches (Grokker, Kartoo)
  • commercial image search engines
  • digital photograph/image collections
Issues using images/information
  • copyright/plagiarism 
  • image quality
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