LibGuides: Spartan Savvy: Integrative Model for Information Literacy: Searching as Strategic Exploration (Topic)

Searching as Strategic Exploration (Topic)

(Definition of Topic with links to activities that cover this topic)

With a goal of framing searching for information as a process of strategically exploring a variety of information resources, this topic covers the inquiries:

How do we find information?
How can we adapt our research strategies to different environments and research questions?

Activities:

Discovery Tools Are Like Shopping For Jeans
An analogy and demonstration to help students feel more comfortable using library databases by showing how they are like shopping.
Hashtags and Headings: Mind Your Metadata
Discussion of hashtags and subject headings as metadata to help locate information.
Search Techniques
In small groups, students explore a search technique and then demonstrate it to the class.
Standing on Shoulders
Students will discuss and search for examples of scholarship refuting previous knowledge.
Which Search Worked Best?
Students will practice using Boolean operators.

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