Coming in Spring 2025
LIB 100 introduces students to the effective use of library and non-library information resources and services in various academic disciplines and professions. Students learn the core concepts of information retrieval and the essential techniques of organizing, presenting, evaluating, and analyzing information as well as how to attribute your sources properly.
Topics include:
- effective information research planning
- search techniques, evaluation criteria, and ethical use of information
- information cycle and timeline
- comparing, contrasting, and selecting library and open web resources
- types and characteristics of information sources
This class enhances critical thinking and evaluation skills by using a variety of textual, graphical, visual, and audio (re)sources to assess how information is produced, consumed, and presented and teaches students how to assess sources for perspective, veracity, and authority in order to develop the ability to apply critical thinking practices to specific disciplinary contexts and information problems within the student’s field of interest.
SPRING 2025
Critical Approaches to Information Research
Class number #1750
3 Units / ZTC - Zero Textbook Cost
Hybrid - Meets Mondays: 9:10 am - 10:35 am
Transfer Credit: UC / CSU
Instructor: Adina Lerner, GCC Librarian
Scholars Enhancement Available
LIB 100 Syllabus (example from previous semester; will not be exactly the same)