Some Important Introductory Terms and Concepts you may hear in the first class: Information Work; Information Seeking Behaviors / Human Information Behaviors vs. Scholarly Communication - rhetorical communities, findability or search vs. discovery; Library Research aka Bibliographical Research, Information Research; Citations (Entries, Style Manuals), Genres (Forms, Types), Subject Headings/Vocabularies, Topic vs. Thesis; Information Literacy, Information Competency; Information Overload; Information Anxiety #TMI
IL is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.