Herding the Walking Dead: Infecting Freshman Biology Majors with Information Literacy Skills
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Type of Presentation
Panel (1 hour and 15 minutes presentation total for two or more presenters)
Conference Strand
Ethics in Information
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Verelst
Abstract
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Presentation Description
In order to “infect” first year students in the introductory Biology course at a small, private University, Instruction Librarians and Freshman Biology Instructors collaborated to refine a bibliographic instruction session designed to introduce the components of academic resources and information literacy. Come hear how Librarians and Instructors cooperate to “animate” student skill sets in basic search techniques including: limiters, Boolean operations, database organization, navigation, and result manipulation techniques. This partnership equips students with a strong foundation of information literacy and transferable skill sets that will be built upon throughout the course of their academic careers.
Keywords
College freshman, Biology majors, Introductory biology, Bibliographic instruction, Academic resources, Infromation literacy, Library-faculty collaboration, Limiters, Boolean operations, Database organization, Database navigation, Result manipulation techniques
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Odom, Amee; Shealy, Ashley; and Odom, Brian, "Herding the Walking Dead: Infecting Freshman Biology Majors with Information Literacy Skills" (2013). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 42.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2013/2013/42
Herding the Walking Dead: Infecting Freshman Biology Majors with Information Literacy Skills
Verelst
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