Example Activities

LIS has created an activities clearinghouse where you will find examples of the exercises below and many others. Feel free to use and modify them as you see fit. Please also consider contributing any activities you have created or successfully incorporated into your sessions!

• Lead a discussion about important ideas or concepts, such as using popular vs. scholarly sources.
• Have small groups review a relevant reference source and tell the class why it is valuable.
• Brainstorming keywords (including broader and narrower terms!).
• Conducting and recording database searches with their own or an assigned topic.
• Web searching with the advanced screen and evaluating the returned sites.
• Searching for best subject headings in Library Catalog.

Ready to Try It?
The next time you plan a session, pick a skill or concept that you would like your students to learn and build an activity around it. Pay attention to how it well it works, ask for feedback, modify it as needed and try it again in another session. Keep doing this until you feel you have a successful activity. Then share it with your colleagues in the LIS clearinghouse!