Includes bibliographical references.

Scholarship as conversation : The conversational nature of sources of information / Andrea Baer ; Using information as a springboard to research / Emily Frigo I& Jessalyn Richter ; Mapping scholarly conversation / Kathleen Anne Langan -- Crafting a credible message / Debbie Morrow ; Starting points: the role of blogs in scholarly conversation / Brandon West -- Research as inquiry : Flawed questions: tools for inquiry / Smita Avasthi ; Crime scene investigation as an analogy for scholarly inquiry / Robert Ferrell ; The research discussion / Charissa Jefferson ; Developing a research question: topic selection / Kevin Michael Klipfel ; The connection between personal and academic research / Sarah Naumann & Sami Lange -- Authority is constructed and contextual : Evaluating information sources / Robert Farrell ; Determining the relevance and reliability of information sources / Nancy Fawley ; Establishing and applying evaluation criteria / Steven Hoover ; Non-scholarly formats as research tools / Rachel M. Minkin ; Scholarly/non-scholarly / Jo Angela Oehrli & Emily Hamstra -- Information creation as a process : Using sources to support a claim / Dani Brecher ; Information life cycle / Toni M. Carter & Todd Aldridge ; Tracing information over time / Xan Goodman -- Searching as strategic exploration : From noting to something: transforming the "failed" search / Ika Datig ; Context through citation / Jenny Fielding ; What is a database? / Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, & Xan Goodman ; Who cares?: Understanding the human production of information / Rebecca Kuglitsch ; Password: keyword edition / Melissa Langridge ; Approaching problems like a professional / Melissa Mallon ; Databases vs. search engines game / Elizabeth Martin & Rebecca Daly ; Keywording / Cate Calhoun Oravet ; Framing a topic for library research / Melissa Browne, Caitlin Plovnick, Cathy Palmer, & Richard Caldwell ; Systems of organization / Peter Ramsey & Stephen "Mike" Kiel -- Information has value : Gray areas in plagiarism cases / Smita Avasthi ; The who, what, and why of the creative commons / Rebecca Bliquez & Jane Van Galen ; Plagiarism v. copyright infringement / Patricia Bravender & Gayle Schaub ; Louder than words: using infographics to teach the value of information and authority / Hazel McClure & Christopher Toth ; Ethical use of information in presentations / Debbie Morrow -- Lessons with overlapping information literacy threshold concepts -- Appendix : Lesson handouts ; ACRL framework for information ; Literacy for higher education.