Welcome to the Summer Institute Wiki!

a Wiki for the Focus Team: Promoting Information Literacy in Our Courses

Information Literacy: The ability to recognize the need for information and find, evaluate, and use the information effectively. Incorporate information literacy in your courses. 

New! FEED Workshop

Find information 

• Hunter Library Catalog - Find books, media, etc.
• Electronic Journals available at WCU, UNCA, ASU (a list)
• Hunter Library Research Guides - Help students/faculty find articles, books, websites, statistics, etc.!
• Open Access Journals
• GIS - Maps and Stuff
• Good Search Engines - for finding websites
• Search tricks

Find Quality Websites Through Our Google Custom Search Engine!

Evaluate information

• Evaluating Websites - Authors Can be Dogs!
• Scholarly vs. popular
• Identify Primary & Secondary Sources
• What is Peer Review of Research and Why Is It Important?

Use Information 

• Intellectual Property - Yup, we have to use information ethically/legally
• RefWorks - find out more about this citation management tool. (Not for rookies!)

Research Helps