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- About the authors
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is suitable for all types of academic libraries, high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.
Editors' Preface………………………………………………………………………..
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………
Chapter 1 Scholarship as Conversation.....................................................................
The Conversational Nature of Sources……………………………………….. Andrea Baer
Using Information as a Springboard to Research……………………………..
Emily Frigo and Jessalyn Richter
Mapping Scholarly Conversation……………………………………………..
Kathleen Anne Langan
Crafting a Credible Message………………………………………………….
Debbie Morrow
Starting Points: The Role of Blogs in Scholarly Conversation………………
Brandon West
Chapter 2 Research as Inquiry……………………………………………………...
Flawed Questions: Tools for Inquiry…………………………………………
Smita Avasthi
Crime Scene Investigation as an Analogy for Scholarly Inquiry…………….
Robert Farrell
The Research Discussion…………………………………………………….
Charissa Jefferson
Developing a Research Question: Topic Selection Lesson Plan…………….
Kevin Michael Klipfel
The Connection between Personal and Academic Research………………..
Sarah Naumann & Sami Lange
Chapter 3 Authority is Constructed and Contextual…………………………….
Evaluating Information Sources…………………………………………….
Robert Farrell
Determining the Relevance and Reliability of Information Sources……….
Nancy Fawley
Establishing Evaluation Criteria……………………………………………
Steven Hoover
Non-Scholarly Formats as Research Tools…………………………………
Rachel M. Minkin
Scholarly/Non-Scholarly…………………………………………………...
Jo Angela Oehrli and Emily Hamstra
Chapter 4 Information Creation as a Process…………………………………..
Using Sources to Support a Claim…………………………………………
Dani Brecher
Information Life Cycle…………………………………………………….
Toni M. Carter and Todd Aldridge
Tracing Information over Time……………………………………………
Xan Goodman
Chapter 5 Searching as Strategic Exploration………………………………….
From Nothing to Something: Transforming the "Failed" Search…………
Ika Datig
Context through Citation………………………………………………….
Jenny Fielding
What is a Database?....................................................................................
Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott and Xan Goodman
Who Cares? Understanding the Human Production of Information…….
Rebecca Kuglitsch
Password: Keyword Edition……………………………………………...
Melissa Langridge
Approaching Problems Like a Professional……………………………...
Melissa Mallon
Databases vs. Search Engines Game……………………………………..
Elizabeth Martin and Rebecca Daly
Keywording………………………………………………………………
Cate Calhoun Oravet
Framing a Topic for Library Research…………………………………..
Melissa Browne, Caitlin Plovnick, Cathy Palmer, and Richard Caldwell
Systems of Organization………………………………………………..
Pete Ramsey and Stephen "Mike" Kiel
Chapter 6 Information Has Value…………………………………………….
Gray Areas in Plagiarism Cases…………………………………………
Smita Avasthi
The Who, What, and Why of the Creative Commons…………………..
Rebecca Bliquez and Jane Van Galen
Recognizing Plagiarism…………………………………………………
Patricia Bravender and Gayle Schaub
Plagiarism v. Copyright Infringement………………………………….
Patricia Bravender
Louder than Words: Using Infographics to Teach the Value of
Information And Authority……………………………………..
Hazel McClure and Christopher Toth
Ethical Use of Information in Presentations……………………………..
Debbie Morrow
Lessons with Overlapping Information Literacy Threshold Concepts………
Appendix………………………………………………………………………….
Lesson Handouts………………………………………………………….
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education………
About the Editors…………………………………………………………………
Contributors……………………………………………………………………………
Recommended Reading………………………………………………………