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Information Literacy Toolkit

The Information Literacy Toolkit is a collection of resources that faculty and instructors can use to help plan or implement assignments in classes. These resources can help you scaffold research skills into your classes.

Concepts I Have Experience Teaching

  • Creating a Search Strategy
  • Citation and Plagiarism
  • Creating a Literature Review
  • The Research Process
  • The Information Timeline
  • Google Searching Best Practices
  • Evaluating Information
  • The Dark Web
  • How to Read a Peer-Reviewed Article

Collaboration Ideas

  • For credit research methods course
  • Embed librarian in your canvas course as an additional instructor
  • Librarian teaches your class one day a semester
  • Librarian teaches your class two days a semester
  • Librarian runs a discussion board and/or gives and grades an information literacy assignment 
  • Create videos on various concepts to support the instructor's own lessons
  • Create a libguide for an assignment or on a specific topic: Example