Library Resources

Library resources courses introduce students to the organization, collections, and services of an academic library and enables them to become more competent in finding, evaluating, and using electronic and traditional print resources in the social sciences.

Instructor: McGuire

Lecturer: Syler

Library Resources Courses

LIBR 101     Information Science and Society  (2)

This course delves into the foundations of information science and its cultural, social, and political connections to our society. Participants will understand and reflect on information cycles, types of information sources, how we evaluate and consider sources of information for inclusion in research, personal beliefs, and our understanding of our society. Students will reflect on information behaviors, build foundational research skills, and create a project that addresses an information need or barrier on campus, use academic research to contextualize, and then propose a potential solution. Additional topics include academic scholarship and publishing, artificial intelligence and algorithms, data privacy, and more.