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Information Literacy Resources

Philosophical Shift: Teach the Faculty to Teach Information Literacy (an ACRL paper)
Grafstein, Ann. " A discipline-based approach to information literacy." The Journal of Academic Librarianship v.28 no4 (July 2002) p. 197-204.
Shapiro, Jeremy J. & Shelley K. Hughes. " Information Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum." Educom Review v.31, no2 (March/April 1996).
Grassian, Esther & Susan E. Clark. " Information Literacy Sites." College & Research Libraries News v.60 no2 (Feb. 1999).
Integrating Information Literacy into the Liberal Arts Curriculum - Projects funded to Date: Five Colleges of Ohio, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant. This is a list of numerous assignments and departmental plans for a wide variety of disciplines.
University of Vermont Libraries has a list is organized by semester; a great resource for examples from a large number of courses across the curriculum. Click on a semester link and you will get a list by course name. Some of these are resource lists and some include assignment elements.

Tips for Effectively Incorporating Library Research Skills into Class Assignments from the University of Connecticut Libraries
Designing Research Assignments from Queens University Library (Kingston Ontario)
"IL in Classrooms" from the Association of College and Research Libraries
"Creating Effective Library Assignments" from University of Maryland Libraries.
"Alternatives to Term Papers" from Lawrence University Library
"Term Paper Alternatives" from University of California at Berkeley Libraries

Information Competence for Black Studies (California State University, Long Beach). This is not one specific assignment, but connections to resources, articles and websites.
Information Competence for Black Studies - Tutorial (California State University, Long Beach) This is an online tutorial for the student, including pre- and post- test options.
Black Studies 235 - Introduction to Black Studies (Denison University)
BLST 131 - Introduction to African Studies (The College of Wooster)
Africana 240 - Classicism, Racism & Sexism (SUNY at Albany) This is the web page for a course at Albany that was designated as an Information Literacy intensive course.

Internet Mathematician (Virtual Training Site, University of Bristol) This is a tutorial to teach students about mathematics information resources.
Math 100 (Lewis & Clark College)

Brown, Cecelia. "Integrating Information Literacy into the Science Curriculum." College and Research Libraries v.63 no2 (2002) p.111.

Hispanic Studies 306 - Colloquium: Literary Commentary of Hispanic Texts (Oberlin College)
Literature and Culture: Critical Use of the Visible and Invisible Web (Hamline University) A proposal for integrating IL into a series of modern languages courses, including Spanish.
Spanish 390 - Casa Hispanica (Iowa State University) Once the document is open, search for "Spanish" to get to the segment that deals with this course as an example.
Spanish 365 - Cervantes (Ohio Wesleyan University) Syllabus for a course that integrates information literacy.

Rhetoric and Composition 100 Level (Oberlin College)
Eng 101 (The University of Louisville)
Clark, Irene. "Information Literacy and the Writing Center." Computers and Composition. 12 (1995): 203-9.
AEGL 101 - College Composition (University of South Carolina, Aiken) A blog for a course that integrates information literacy with links to assignments and information literacy pre/post test.
ENG 600 - Fundamentals of Research in Composition (Humboldt State Unviersity) This A page for a graduate level course for students getting Masters/PHDs in composition, but it includes good ideas and resources.