Information Literacy Statement
The Library faculty at Long Beach City College wish to be your partner in information literacy. We encourage LBCC faculty to participate in our endeavor to foster information literacy. Working together, we can achieve this goal using any or all of the following models:
- Basic library orientation: a one-hour orientation that includes a library tour, an introduction to the library resources, and a demonstration on searching the Library's online catalog and licensed subscription databases.
- Customized instruction sessions: designed for discipline-specific course assignments, we offer one or more sessions, flexibly scheduled at intervals for possible assessment.
- Integrated research assignments: Library faculty can collaborate with other faculty members to design instruction and assignments that incorporate information literacy.
- Library credit courses: a variety of courses designed to meet specific information need and to provide students with the opportunity to acquire vital information-gathering skills.
Libray instruction unveils the information world to students, enhances the quality of students' work, improves students' research ability, and empowers students with self-confidence to be lifelong learners.
LBCC faculty may schedule a library orientation using an online form, or call Monica White at (562) 938-4582.
LBCC Library's instruction courses follow the Model Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction and adheres to the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education established by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
LBCC Library's instruction course aims to equip students with vital information technology skills to become an information literate individual. The following ACRL's excerpt is from the above mentioned standards and defines an information literate individual as someone who is able to:
- Determine the extent of information needed
- Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
- Evaluate information and its sources critically
- Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base
- Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
- Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally
Websites Related to Information Literacy
Information Literacy
TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial:
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
How to Dertermine Your Information Needs
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/project/outline/list_files/02of10.html
Introduction to the Research Process
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill1.htm
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill20.html
Evaluation of Information
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/05_evaluate
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm
Citation of Sources
The MLA Bibliography composer
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/index.html
APA style:
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/apa.html
MLA style:
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.htm
Developing an Annotated Bibliography
http://www.lib.cmich.edu/ocls/annbib.htm
Internet
Introduction to the Internet:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
What is the Internet?
http://www.cpsr.org/onenet/whatis.html
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/
