Integrating Information Literacy - Discipline Specific Resources - Asian Studies

Integrating Information Literacy :: Discipline Specific Resources :: Asian Studies

Asian Studies

Objectives
Syllabi
Assignments
Bibliography
Links
Projects
Tutorials

Objectives

for teaching information literacy competencies

Syllabi

that incorporate information literacy

Assignments

useful for teaching information literacy

Bibliography

of useful publications and resource materials

Patel, J. "South Asian Heritage Bibliographic Instruction." Herald of Library Science. 28.1-2 (1989): 56-64.

Discusses the need for library use instruction with special attention paid to problems of foreign students in Asian countries, and discusses differences in cataloguing and classification systems as well as in philosophies of library service.
Rader, H.B. "User Education and Information Literacy for the Next Decade: an International Perspective." Reference Services Review. 24.2 (1996): 71-76.

Defines information literacy and isolates information skills that need to be acquired in a user education program. Discusses the state of information literacy in foreign countries, including China and Japan.

Links

to useful websites

Projects

funded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon grant

Tutorials

that teach information literacy competencies

The University of Melbourne: East Asian Collection -Library Literacy Programme.

Special library literacy programs and tutorials designed for students of East Asian studies.
University of Massachussetts: W.E.B. DuBois Library -East Asian Collection.

Includes introduction to the collection; making the best use of the Internet for East Asian studies; FAQs; and pathfinders to specific research topics.

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