Includes bibliographical references and index.
Information explosion -- What is information? -- Getting ready for research -- The chain of information -- Issues of the information age -- Books and catalogs -- Periodicals and databases -- The Web and scholarly research -- Other tools for research -- The paper trail project -- Assessment.
"Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, each of the 50 standards-based exercises in this book address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning."--[back cover].
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.