Original material from the SWITCH Information Literacy tutorials © 2002-2010 by the SWITCH Library Consortium (Jennifer Schmidt, project manager, tutorial content and Bill Topritzhofer, technical consultant and quiz manager).
This set of tutorials incorporates material from Searchpath http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/, a tutorial developed by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University, © 2001-2002. Content from this tutorial may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Searchpath Open Publication License found at http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/docs/opl/index.html.
The SWITCH Library Consortium would like to thank the librarians and students responsible for creating the Searchpath tutorial. We greatly appreciate their willingness to share tutorial content with other libraries.
Credits by Tutorial
- The Types of Information Sources tutorial was developed with the help of Larry Duerr, Alverno College. SWITCH would also like to acknowledge contributions from the below resources:
- The September 11, 2001 timeline example demonstrating "How Information is Created" was modified with permission from Concordia University Libraries, as seen in their Info Research 101 tutorial.
- The "Get Direction" image and Narrowing your Topic page were reproduced in the Choosing a Research Topic tutorial with permission from the IUPUI University library. They were taken from the IUPUI University library's inflite tutorial.
- The Citing Information & Avoiding Plagiarism tutorial was developed with the help of Sarah Klippel, Concordia University Wisconsin and Rebecca Bark, Alverno College. SWITCH would also like to acknowledge the following resource used in this tutorial:
- The Plagiarism exercise was reproduced and modified with permission from the American Library Association. [Burkhardt, J.M. (2003). Exercise 16 Plagiarism. In J. Burkhardt. Teaching information literacy : 35 practical standards-based exercises for college students. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.].
- Graphics are courtesy of a variety of sources, including Searchpath, Microsoft Office clip art, and Teacher Files.
- Images on the “Transmitting Ideas” page are credited to ©Vithalbhai Jhaveri/GandhiServe, The Thoreau Society, Lincoln, MA, and Martin Luther King, Jr. photo courtesy of Western Michigan University Archives & Regional History Collections.
- The Evaluating
Information tutorial was developed with the help of Sara Shutkin, Alverno
College and Mary Carian, St. Francis Seminary. SWITCH
would also like to acknowledge contributions from several resources for the
Evaluating
Information tutorial:
- The “When to Give Credit” table was reproduced with permission from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/.
- The Evaluating Information Checklists found in the SWITCH Evaluating Information tutorial were adapted and reproduced with permission from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libraries as seen in their Evaluating Information tutorial.
- Quiz questions #1 and #2 of the Evaluating Information tutorial were taken from the LILI (LEARN Information Literacy Initiative tutorial) tutorial and used with permission from the Government of South Australia - TAFE SA.