STARTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS WITH INFORMATION LITERACY IN INTRODUCTORY-LEVEL EARTH SCIENCE COURSES

This chapter addresses student information literacy to enhance student ability to read, interpret, and evaluate sources of scientific data, visualizations, and publications. The Framework serves as an excellent basis for collaboration between librarians and teaching faculty in higher education. Students are provided links to sample annotated bibliographies so they may see a template for what the final product will look like. Students meet in a computer lab designated as instructional space in library. All introductory-level Earth science courses at Penn State Brandywine seek to increase the scientific literacy of students through a semester-long piece on information literacy. Students were required to set up a shared folder and invite the Earth science instructor to be a collaborator so instructor could easily check on student progress and respond to any items students placed in folder. Many of the students have never received a formal introduction to vast electronic resources available prior to taking Earth science, especially not to the science-focused data- bases.