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Each section of this toolkit has suggestions for optional activities to introduce elements of information literacy. These are intended to complement any instructions provided in the course materials, and can be adapted to suit your course. They are designed to be quick, both for you to plan and for your students to do. Each section lists the learning outcomes your students achieve by using the material provided. You might also like to try out some of the activities yourself. You can pick and choose material from this toolkit according to the level of skills of your students, the level of the course or the kinds of information literacy activities the course demands. Much of the material is aimed at students working in an online environment, but we recognise that some courses do not require students to use computers as part of their course, and that this may be the case with some courses for some time to come. So you should decide which activities are relevant, according to the requirements of the course, computer access, skills, motivation, time, confidence and needs of your students. Where we have suggested resources for you to use with your students, for example those on the Open University Library website, links will open in new browser windows. When you have finished looking at the site in the new window, close the browser window to return to the rest of the toolkit. The 'Information Literacy Toolkit' logo at the top left hand side of the page will always take you back to the opening page of the toolkit.

A number of different types of resources can be found as references on reading lists, including: Books Chapters in books Journal articles Conference papers Theses Web documents

A collaborative project between several partners including the Director of Nursing Research at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State librarians, this tutorial was developed to assist nursing students and nurses in learning to implement evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing is using and carrying out nursing practices based on the best available knowledge. It integrates the nurse's clinical expertise with the best external research evidence and encourages nurses to examine nursing practices, analyze alternative and contradictory data, and make sound nursing care decisions supported by the best available research evidence.

Each module offers the option of taking a quiz before and after the interactive tutorial. You may choose which tutorial and quizzes are most appropriate for your particular course goals.

The Toolkit items have been created by librarians and have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License, meaning you are welcome to use them either as they appear in the Toolkit, or to modify them to suit your own instructional needs. We do ask, however, that in all cases the materials are properly attributed so that credit is given to the original creator.

By simply answering the quiz, you can determine your strengths and weaknesses and your level of information literacy. If you feel that you lack some necessary competencies, you may wish to look at the appropriate sections of the Toolkit (as indicated) to help you gain the information skills you need to become information literate.

How to use SKIL It is not intended that teachers should work through all of the activities but should select those activities that are suitable for their class and situation. The list of activities can be used as a checklist to ensure that pupils are progressing through the development of information literacy skills in a logical and coherent manner. The activities are made available in electronic format so can be adjusted to suit the individual, or can be used as they are with the support materials provided. The activities are listed according to stage, but activities from other stages can be used at any time according to the needs of the individual class. Composite classes can use the activities from several stages as the activities at each stage are similar but progressive.

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Is an interactive guide to research techniques and strategies to find information. The resources can be used in different ways: -by your subject librarians to help you learn to use the library's resources as fully as possible -by your lecturers to help with your assignments -by yourself to learn more about the research process or to refresh your memory about such things as referencing your work

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