LibGuide for High School Social Studies Students

PLO #5: Identify needs and connect individuals and communities with information that engages and empowers them.

Competencies for Special Collections Professionals III.D.4:

Demonstrates knowledge of pertinent disciplinary and interdisciplinary research methodologies; instructs users in search strategies for locating relevant materials for research; understands and teaches the relationships between research, creation of new knowledge, publication, and other forms of scholarly communication.

In this assignment, completed for LIS 60601: Information Sources and Reference Services, I identified the information needs for a real-life class at an international school in South Korea. After working with the Social Studies teacher to determine the areas of need, I identified and provided instruction on how to use pertinent resources for their assigned project, both in sources of information and how to create a works cited page in MLA format. I created a guide for using the LibGuide, provided instructions for using both library and internet resources in separate pages, and finally showed examples and provided further resources for citing sources in MLA format.