IS 101-33: The Joy of Garbage (Lambert) 

Welcome to the Knight Guide for IS 101. This guide will provide you quick access to library resources useful for this course. Anytime you have questions, send me an email and I will be happy to respond.

Looking for information is like shopping. Sometimes, a garage sale is just the right place for what we are seeking. Other times, we want to go to a speciality store to find something that meets our exact specifications. Information sources are like shopping venues--a range to suit all needs.

Information literacy can be a complicated concept. However, here are a few ways that it breaks down.

• a disposition of inquiry--what do I want to know about?
• a disposition of critical thinking--what is the authority of the source of information?
• a skill set--how can I be most efficient at finding the information I need?
• a stance of self-assessment--how do I know that I have all the information I need?
• for life--I will always need to be learning.

Essential Education components are embedded into your course assignments:

• IS 101: critical evaluation of information: purpose, authority, timeliness, scope
• EN 112: support inquiry with an efficient search strategy
• Scientific Reasoning: distinguishing between scholarly and popular information sources
• RE 101: acknowledging that each discipline has its own style of inquiry
• IS 201: recognizing diverse perspectives in information sources

In your major

Each area of study has its own focused sources of information and style of inquiry. As you proceed into your major, your information literacy skills will become increasingly sophisticated through the ILAC (Information Literacy Across the Curriculum) program.