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LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics

This guide accompanies LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics at Truman College.

Weeks 11-12: Course Wrap-up

Use the final two class meetings to make sure all of your assignments have been handed in. This is especially important for the final reflection assignment because you will need to comment on other students' work to complete the assignment. Your classmates will be counting on you!

NOTE: Coursework will not be accepted after 12:00 pm (noon) on the last day of class (12/12/23) without official documentation of an emergency. 

We've covered a lot of material in this course, from the basic definition of information literacy, to current and future trends in the field. Here is a visualization of the course content: 

“Landscape of information literacy & library resarch” by Sara Klein is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Take some time to think about what you've learned in this class, and to acknowledge how far you have come since the first day. Look over these questions from the beginning of the course and think about how you engage with and use information in your daily life now:  

  • Define “information” in your own words.
  • What does your daily engagement with/consumption of information look like? When do you look for info? How often? 
  • Where do you look for info? How does it change, depending on what type of info you’re looking for? 
  • How do you search for info? How do your search strategies change depending on your information needs or the evolving nature of your search topic?
  • How does your information searching or use change on different devices (phone, computer, tablet, etc.)?
  • How do you evaluate info? What makes information valuable to you? What do you look for in information resources; who or what do you trust for good (reliable, credible, not-fake, etc.) information?
  • What do you do when you find info you’re looking for? What do you do if you can’t find the info you’re looking for?
  • How closely do you read information you find? 
  • When do you search for additional or comparative info? How and where do you go about this?
  • Do you save the resources you find? Where/how do you save them?
  • What do you do with the information you find: how do you apply or use it?
  • Do you interact with the information you find? (For example, do you comment or reply to comments?)
  • How confident do you feel about your research skills? Where do you think you excel, and where do you think you could improve?