Incorporating Information Literacy into the Classroom

• Discuss the differences between library and web resources:

• Google
• GoogleScholar
• RitzDiscovery

• Discuss Boolean connectors (AND, OR, NOT)

• Discuss facet searching and limiting results

• Ask students to retrieve web resources with specific domain types (.gov, .edu, .com).

• Ask students to conduct searches in Google, GoogleScholar, and RitzDiscovery and compare their results.

• Ask students to refine their results in Google (advanced search), GoogleScholar, and RitzDiscovery.

• Ask students to use Boolean operators to do the following:

• Expand their results
• Limit their results
• Exclude results

• Ask students to use a Ritz Library service (Book-a-Librarian, AskUs 24/7) for help with a challenging search or even just to connect with a simple question or task.