Integrating Information Literacy - Discipline Specific Resources

Anthropology

Objectives

for teaching information literacy competencies

Syllabi

that incorporate information literacy

Assignments

useful for teaching information literacy

Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Information Literacy, University of Nevada, Anthropology 601 Assignment.

Presents underlying problems of use of the web to find worthwhile resources and provides a framework for discovery of resources relating to the topic that incorporate scope, breadth, accuracy, timeliness and other means to determine site validity.

Bibliography

of useful publications and resource materials

Jussim, Estelle. "The Research Uses of Visual Information." Library Trends. April 1977: 763-778. Source: LISA

Discusses research development based on nonverbal documents as it impacts on library materials and the scientific community.

Links

to useful websites

Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara. May 23, 2001.

This excellent site has over 600 links to Anthropology departments at various universities, online syllabi, field schools, journals, organizations, and anthropology sources for specific geographic areas.

Projects

funded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon grant

Tutorials

that teach information literacy competencies

Information Literacy, Module I: Understanding the World of Information.

This tutorial gives defines various types of reference materials that might be useful to anthropologists and places to locate those sources.

Last Modified:
Modified from work by Cheryl Youse,
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, June 2001