DISCOVERY – the art of gathering and finding information

TOOLS – knowledge of:

• - Databases, catalogs
• - Collections: print and other
• - Depositories, open source information
• - GIS, visualization tools, informatics, data sets
• - Technologies, like RSS, Wikis, Alerting services, and other new technologies as they develop

TECHNIQUES –

• - Searching methods, be effective and efficient
• - Controlled vocabulary vs. natural language
• - Ability to find information in other fields, what principles can be used in any field
• - Records - find a citation, read the article, track forward and backward in time, what a reference is

• - Review articles to learn about your topic, get a good list of references to start with

SERVICES –

• - Library services, such as circulation, Interlibrary Borrowing, etc.
• - Subject Specialists

The INFORMATION UNIVERSE/ BIG PICTURE – Understand:

• - Content of an academic library, what's there and how to get what isn't there.
• - Different forms of science and technology publications - materials types such as technical reports,           conference articles vs journal articles vs preprints

• - How information sources work within their discipline
• - Multidisciplinary influences on the information in a field

• - Primary, secondary, tertiary sources
• - Information timeline - when to use articles, when to use books
• - How to formulate a meaningful question, awareness of the real information need
• - How to keep current in a field and up to date in information tools for a subject

EVALUATION

• - Identify authoritative sources
• - Peer reviewed journals vs magazines, why peer review is important

• - What constitutes authority?
• - Choosing the appropriate database for your information need

MANAGEMENT

• - Citing and acknowledgement of work – building the reputation of authors
• - Citing properly, quoting properly, plagiarism

COMMUNICATION

- Intellectual property, copyright

• - How to make information and research accessible to others, i.e. choosing where to publish: highly cited/impact, timeliness, reputation among peers, networking opportunities (conferences), open access journals
• - Implications of licensing. How to manage or find information when you leave college
• - How fast the information world is changing, knowing how to keep up – ways to survey the literature to generate ideas and assure your idea is original

Method of delivery

Characteristics and impact

Curriculum integration

Designing courses that integrate information skills throughout the curriculum.

Training Faculty or Instructors

Faculty teach their students the skills necessary for their course or research.

Course integrated instruction

Librarian collaborating with a faculty member on a specific course.

Special workshop

Demonstrating how to master a specific skill.

Independent seminars

User aids in print and online

Course web pages, database cheat sheets, subject guides.

Tutorials

In print and online

Other technologies as yet to be explored

Blogs, course management systems

Freshmen Orientation

Types of information and appropriate resource for finding it (Journal article, conference proceeding, technical report and standard), subject specific sources (Compendex), Patent searching (USPTO)

http://www.unl.edu/vbaldwin/me100/me100.html

Senior Engineering Design

Literature searching with a topic in hand 

http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engdesign/

Engineering Ethics

Concepts of emerging professional, social responsibility and ethics

http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2004-773_Final.pdf

Applied Sciences and  Business

Cross-disciplinary information literacy instruction with focus on researching innovative product ideas and industry and market research

http://www.istl.org/03-spring/article4.html