Practical Information Literacy Assignments for Biblical and Religious Studies
Each page represents one of the major definitions and "standards" for information literacy. On each page you will find definitions created by each group and about a dozen practical information literacy assignments.
Each assignment will include:
Information Literacy Learning Outcome (ILLO) with wording to match the "standard" in question,
Simple instructions worded to match the ILLO (providing a paper trail for accrediting agencies),
most "assignments" are in one of five formats: reference page, evaluation form, content footnote, annotated reference page, or appendix
Generic rubric for the partial assignment (typically a quantity, completeness, and quality component),
many will include a brief example.
Contact information:
Steve Jung, MSLS, MDiv
Associate Director of Library Services / Associate Professor
Hope International University
email - mailto:profstevejung@gmail.com
This website was originally set up to support a presentation at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual meeting in 2017. That presentation was then added as part of a book chapter (https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/0603108P) in McWhirter, Jocelyn, and Sylvie T Raquel, eds. Teaching the Bible with Undergraduates. Resources for Biblical Study, Number 99. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022. Much of this website and its content was presented again to the Southern CAlifornia Theological Library Association (SCATLA) meeting at Hebrew Union College - Los Angeles in 2018.
In 2023 the threat of Artificial Intelligence raised its head. So, several new presentations were given on how to beat the bots.
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