Library and Information Science

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The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook

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Undergraduate Research Journals from the Council on Undergraduate Research

An alphabetic, annotated list of undergraduate research journals that may provide the opportunity for students to use the work of peers and to submit their own work as part of their research programs.

Submitted by Jennifer Masunaga on June 17th, 2015
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The following activity is meant to demonstrate the concepts of authorship and authority to your students. It introduces the idea that context can influence the tone and writing style of a faculty member or scholar and also introduces the concept of the scholarly conversation. It can be used for any discipline.

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At the end of this activity, students should… • Be able to compare and contrast two different sources in order to comprehend the different types of context for scholarly ideas. • Recognize scholarly blogs and other informal scholarly communication sources in order to describe scholarly communication as an ongoing and evolving dialogue.

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Masunaga, Jennifer. "Authority is Contextual and Constructed: Class Discussion of Authorship." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2015. https://projectcora.org/assignment/authority-contextual-and-constructed-class-discussion-authorship.
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The RADAR Challenge

The RADAR Challenge is an online game developed by the librarians at Loyola Marymount University. The game is designed to be played in teams during a class or library session.

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