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Information Competency

Mission Statement of the William T. Boyce Library

Our mission is to assist students, faculty, and staff attain their educational and informational goals in a supportive library environment.  

 Goals of the Library:

To provide a collection of materials which supports the curriculum and the information needs of the campus community and which reflects the diversity of the population we serve.

To provide complete and accurate access to the collection as well as access to materials beyond the library walls.

To provide appropriate instruction to patrons in the use of library materials and library technology.  

The library strives to attain these goals by providing individual instruction, Library Instruction Sessions, class subject-specific instruction, and CSU/UC transferable classes--Introduction to Research and Honors Introduction to Research.

Library Instruction Sessions (50 Minutes Each)

    General Overview of the Fullerton College's Online Catalog, Databases, Internet, and MLA will be discussed.           

  Class Subject-Specific where specific research tools and materials will be discussed. 

Library Technology Courses (1 Unit)        

     CSU/UC Transferable Course Work

A one semester course that is designed to introduce the student to traditional and electronic library research tools and resources.  Each student will prepare and compile a written bibliography of relevant sources on a topic.

  • LIB 100 F  Introduction To Research (1 Unit) 

  • LIB 100HF Honors Introduction To Research (1 Unit)   

For more information on Instruction Sessions or CSU/UC Transferable Library Courses see Library Instruction.

The following sites are provided for you as a means of informing you of the effort underway to support Information Literacy Competency Standards for the California Community Colleges and in Higher Education.

Information Competency in California Community Colleges

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/Publications/Papers/Info_competency.html Publications from the State Academic Senate related to information competency.

Information Competency www.topsy.org/infocomp.html                                                                      
An extensive list of information competency links maintained by a librarian at Cabrillo College.

California Community College Chancellor's Office http://www.santarosa.edu/~kathy/ICC/index.shtml                             
Information compiled by the Library Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Information Competency.  Includes a listing of Committee members, documents, and other organizations and sites.

Information Competency in Higher Education

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
The ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) web page that has links to the standards and role that information competency has in higher education.

Campus Library Information Competence Pages http://www.calstate.edu/LS/Campusinfocomp.shtml
This page gives the user a link to the Library Information Competence page at each of the CSU campuses.

Integration of Learning Outcomes
http://www.calstate.edu/LS/Outcomes.shtml
Information competency as it pertains to learning outcomes.  Arranged by discipline from Accounting to Women’s Studies; can also be accessed by student level.

Children's Partnership
http://www.childrenspartnership.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=About_Us
The Children's Partnership (TCP) is a national, nonprofit child advocacy organization. TCP promotes research on various issues that affect children and young people. Of particular interest are the Programs--"Digital Opportunities for America's Youth" and also Publications--Reports recarding the 'digital divide'.

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/il/
This directory provides links to organizations and major projects, papers and presentations, academic programs, and other sites.

Online Tutorials

Cal Poly State University Information Competency Tutorial http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html                       
Nine online
CSU Information Competence tutorials.

Santa Ana College Information Competency Tutorial  

http://ext.sac.edu/academic_progs/library/informationcompetency/
A series of modules that guides the user through the process of using online databases and the Web.  Each module concludes with an exercise.

TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
This fully
interactive/no plug-ins required tutorial from the University of Texas System Digital Library may be used by students or educators. 

Most recent revision: Friday, December 2, 2005

   
 

   
   
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