Sandbox Search
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This usability study explores whether patrons prefer and are well-served by specialized, format-based searches or simpler, single-box searches, and the implications of these practices and preferences for information literacy. Qualitative data…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Rachel Scott
Resource Type(s): Publication
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An update from a previous version.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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The infographic was originally developed for a management class. It is updated and revised to be applicable to other disciplines as well. The university logo was deleted for use by other campus.A video was made to explain the 4-step source…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Research Guide
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Prepared for a marketing research class which requires to find literature review and create citations.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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editable PPT on general research process and different types of information sources. Prepared for Writing 200 class.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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The presentation covers two sessions presentation of a business consulting session, including editable graphs for research process.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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Help students develop strategies to find quality articles.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Learning Object
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This is a lesson plan for FYE business IL session. The plan incorporated a role play active learning activity and framework concept information has value.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Outcomes List, Lesson Plan, Other
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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The goal of this in-class activity is to help students relate database searching to something they already have familiarity with. This is interdisciplinary and could be adapted for any subject or database. Students will explore a timely topic on…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Bria Sinnott
Resource Type(s): Activity, Worksheet
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The presentation is for first-year experience class, in which students need to do their due deligence and find best practices from other University in the areas of diversity & inclusion, student success, sustainability, and wellness.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
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Privacy Literacy Toolkit for K-20 librarians and educators to facilitate creation of learning experiences on privacy related topics. Toolkit includes teaching materials, how-tos, case studies, current awareness resources, along with…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Bibliography, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Professional Development Material, Other
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future. The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value
Contributor: Alexandria Chisholm
Resource Type(s): Activity, Instruction Program Material, Learning Object, Lesson Plan, Research Guide, Slide Deck, Worksheet
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An open access MOOC in French to bonify the information literacy skills of university students (with Moodle).
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Pascal Martinolli
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Learning Object, Tutorial
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This lesson is designed to orient teacher education students to the library spaces and resources that support the development of multiple literacies by using a gamified tour through a series of stations throughout the library. Exploration stations…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Framework as a Whole
Contributor: Wendy Traas
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan
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Deciding who to vote for can be hard. On top of that, finding information about local elections can sometimes be difficult, as can be figuring out if you agree with a candidate on an issue that you don’t know too much about. This activity engages…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Faith Rusk
Resource Type(s): Activity, Worksheet
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A list of criteria to help students check if they followed all steps to create an optimized search strategy. We used it for searches in engineering database, but it can be used in all fields. For certain fields, it might need small modifications.…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Christine Brodeur
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Worksheet
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Grille de vérification que les étudiants peuvent remplir après avoir développé une stratégie pour s'assurer d'avoir réfléchi à toutes les facettes de leur stratégie. En français (English version also available in the Sandbox)
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Christine Brodeur
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Worksheet
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In this activity, students work in groups to craft a response to a presidential tweet from an assigned perspective (e.g. right or left leaning news source). In doing so, they are required to find, evaluate, and effectively use information to make a…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Faith Rusk
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assignment Prompt
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This is a recorded webcast presentation featuring tips on using the MLA International Bibliography to teach scholarly research concepts and analytical skills.
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Angela Ecklund
Resource Type(s): Conference Presentation
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The MLA provides short tutorial videos that help users make the most of the bibliography’s rich metadata and its advanced searching and filtering features. New and updated tutorials are released throughout the year.If you have a suggestion for a…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Angela Ecklund
Resource Type(s): Tutorial
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The MLA has developed an online course to teach students how to use the MLA International Bibliography for college-level research. Each of the five units in the course presents a lesson, followed by progression questions to reinforce the…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Angela Ecklund
Resource Type(s): Learning Object
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This lesson plan uses Kevin Seeber's process cards and our newly created set of process cards that focus on news sources. In the activities using the process cards, our students were able to define and contextualize different types of…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process
Contributor: Susan Miller
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Lesson Plan
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If there were a list of things I absolutely required all my students to understand before leaving my class, the relationship between mass media, politics, and science would be close to the top of the list. But there are a lot of moving parts in…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Contributor: Todd Heldt
Resource Type(s): Blog Post, Learning Object, Research Guide
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The Critical Information Literacy Lesson Plan includes a lesson plan with a bibliography of assigned readings and discussion questions for students as well as presentation slides with main points from the lesson: definition of critical information…
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Contributor: Latia Ward
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Bibliography, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck