government information and information literacy
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Information Literacy in Action: Embedding Government information in research workshops and the information literacy curriculum.
Seth M. Porter: Instruction Librarian & Government Documents Coordinator/LecturerThe University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Framework
Info Lit Gov How
When What
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Learning Outcomes• Attendees will be able to define information literacy as a framework
• Attendees will be able to explain the importance of government information in information literacy
• Attendees will identify access points in their curriculum to embed government information
• Attendees will be able to critique their own information literacy workshops to construct government information fluency in the curriculum
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Information Literacy
● What is Information Literacy to you?
● How do you use this concept in your day to day duties as Government Information professionals?
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Government Information Fluency
• What is this?
• How can we relate it to the students?
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How• How to get the buy in from supervisors or
faculty member?
• How to convince students it is important?
• How to fit it in coherently during one-shot instruction?
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When
• When should you embed government information into instruction scenarios?
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What• Major Sources (All)• Legislative, Executive, and Judicial• Science• Patents & Law• Statistics & Data• Business
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Major Sources• FDsys
• CFR• Congressional Bills, Documents, and more• USC• Federal Register
• USA.gov• A-Z list of Government Agencies, and more
• U.S. Manual• Official handbook of the Federal Government
• NARA• Love this for all sorts of research
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Executive• White House
• Office of Management and Budget
• Public Papers• President's public messages, statements, speeches, and news conference
remarks.
• Data from Executive Agencies• Data, Tools, and Information from Executive Agencies
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Legislative• Congress
• Bills, Laws, Congressional Record
• Congressional Budget Office• US House of Representatives • US Senate• Government Tracking
• Track what each member of Congress is doing(I always throw these watchdog sources in)
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Judicial• Supreme Court
• Decisions, documents, and court decisions• Supreme Court Collection
• Full-text access to decisions• Library of Congress: Supreme court
• Current and historical information
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Science• SciTech• NASA• Tech Reports
• NTIS• NASA NTRS
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Patents, Trademark & Copyrights• Patents
• USPTO• Trademark
• USPTO• Copyright
• Copyright.gov• Library of Congress
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Statistics & Data• Census• Bureau of Economic Analysis• Data.gov
• A repeat, but for good reason.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics• Economic Research: The Fed
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Business• SEC Edgar
• Company filings
• Individual States Secretary of State• Great when students are researching private
companies
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Activities to build IL• Value of a Source
• Authority Research
• Searching
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Your turn• What would you do as government information
experts to embed it in your own curriculum?
• How would you do it?
• What would the benefits be?
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Contact:
● Seth M. Porter: Instruction Librarian & Government Documents Coordinator/Lecturer. The University of Alabama in Huntsville.