Integrating Information Literacy - Discipline Specific Resources

Political Science

Objectives

for teaching information literacy competencies

Syllabi

that incorporate information literacy

Cheney, Debora and Sheehy, Helen. "LST 297: Library Research Methods in Political Science." Penn State University.

Syllabi of a course taught at Penn State relating Political Science and library research.
Gerner, Deborah. "Political Science 670: US Foreign Policy." University of Kansas.

Syllabi of a course taught at the University of Kansas, with the opportunity to: "increase your 'information literacy' by becoming familiar with key library resources relevant to the study of foreign policy."

Assignments

useful for teaching information literacy

Research Strategy Assignments, Stauffer Library, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario).

Assignment of survey conducted on IL at Queen's University.

Bibliography

of useful publications and resource materials

Boenau, B. A. "Introducing students to reference sources in comparative politics." Political science teacher. 3 (Summer 1990): 12-14.
Cudiner, Shelley, and Oskar R. Harmon. "An Active Learning Approach to Teaching Effective Online Search Strategies." T.H.E. Journal. 28. 5 (December 2000).

Discusses active student learning exercises designed by a librarian in collaboration a faculty member for an econonics course. Practical illustrations throughout with a useful bibliography at the end of the article.
Davidson, N. "Government documents: An integrated part of BI programs in colleges." South Carolina librarian. 28 (Spring 1984): 19, 20.
Kuzma, Lynn M. "The World Wide Web and active learning in the international relations classroom." PS: Political Science & Politics. (Sept 1998) (accessed from www.findarticles.com, June 2001).

Text of an article from the American Political Science Association discussing research, the WWW and active learning. References at the bottom of the page.
Stebelman, Scott. "Information Literacy Belongs In Every Classroom", Connect. Gelman Library, George Washington University.

Text from the Newsletter of the Gelman Library at GWU discussing Information Literacy, how research papers could be conducted using IL, and some of the standards of information literate students.
Tuckett, H. and Pryor, J. "Research strategies for political science." Research strategies. 1 (Summer 1983): 128-30.

Links

to useful websites

The Teaching Library - Information Literacy Survey, UC Berkeley.

This is text on a survey conducted at Berkeley on Political Science students on the library skills acquired through the course of their studies there.
Bibliography of Print Resources on Library Instruction, Michael Lorenzen, Michigan State University.

Projects

funded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon grant

Tutorials

that teach information literacy competencies

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