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A clearinghouse for many of the videos created for general and course specific information literacy instruction.

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1h 47m Beginner Released: 7/20/2015
Information literacy is the ability to discover and use various types of information. It's an essential skill for navigating the information age. Watch this course to learn about strategies for finding information—from a library, archive, database, or the Internet—and the ethics of using it. Librarian Elsa Loftis discusses different types of resources and explains how to evaluate their usefulness and trustworthiness. She also shows how to avoid plagiarism and copyright infringement, and accurately cite sources.

Learn and develop lifelong skills to find, evaluate and use information effectively.

A mix of videos and tutorials dealing with topics like fake news and evaluating sources. Many of these are not branded and appropriate for many of the classes we teach.

8 tutorials with minimal branding. Worth noting is a great video on the anatomy of a scholarly article.

Short tutorials on peer review, picking a topic, evaluating sources, anatomy of a scholarly article, and literature reviews

Welcome to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox, a place to discover ways to use the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in instructional settings, as well as share your own activities and teaching resources related to the Framework.

6 modules spanning the entire library related research process from how to search to citing sources.

MOOC course offered at the University of Washington. Full syllabus and lots of videos.

Extremely well done 6-minute video explaining information from the perspective of the Framework for Information Literacy.

Very watchable just over 4 minute video on information literacy. Over a quarter of a million views!!!

Article from C&RL News.
As an information literacy instructor at Auburn University, it has been a perpetual struggle to teach students how to successfully search for library resources when they come to their one-time library sessions with only a broad paper topic and no idea how to narrow it down. A student recently told me regarding an English composition due in a few days, “The topic is so broad, I can’t pick an argument. I don’t even know where to start.” I began encouraging students to use a resource that they feel comfortable with as a starting point—Wikipedia.

In this Films On Demand video, viewers will learn strategies for narrowing down results and honing in on credible sources of information online. Experts such as college professors and media librarians offer advice, while students share their own experiences.