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Library Student Worker Remote Tasks: #5 Tasks Related to Information Literacy

This guide provides links to tasks to be performed by UNO Library student workers who are working offsite.

#1 Complete the following tutorials

Go through all the tabs on the UNO Library Information Literacy Tutorial. Once you have learned the materials, take the QUIZ. Please repeat this training until you can confidently answer the questions without going back to the training guide to answer the questions.

Please take the QUIZ until you can correctly answer all the questions. This may mean that you go through the training guide multiple times. That's okay! Learning the material is the most important part of this work!

Coursera is offering this class for free. Go through the Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens online class. Follow the instructions and do the assignments in the class.

 

#3 Create an Annotated Bibliography

Create an annotated bibliography on the Corona Virus COVID-19.

Break down the bibliography into sections denoting liberal, conservative, neutral, and conspiracy theories.

 

How do I create an annotated bibliography? Here are resources to help you complete this task: 

Cornell University – How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography: The Annotated Bibliography

Purdue Online Writing Lab – Annotated Bibliography Samples

 

Zotero

You are working on your annotated bibliography, but how do you organize it so it is ready to share with your supervisor? Use Zotero! 

Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies.

Ack! Not another new thing! No worries, it's easy to use and we have a libguide to get you started!

#2 Master searching in these key databases:

Complete this "Quiz" for each of the databases listed below. The UNO Library subscribes to over 200 databases. Please take this time to explore specialized databases in your major. You should complete the "quiz" for these databases too!

 

updates on PolicyMap data and the tool itself.

Your trial site includes a section of the Health menu devoted to data relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. This section includes an collection of data, ranging from people most likely to be affected, such as those with underlying health problems or those living in close quarters such as nursing homes or correctional facilities, to data on the digital divide that is limiting access to education for many students.

  • Small area health prediction data for chronic conditions and risk factors has been updated to include ZCTA geographies. It is also available at the census tract level and includes asthma, COPD, Depression, Diabetes, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure and Stroke. More conditions will be added shortly.
  • Daily weekday updates to data from the New York Times on the cumulative number of cases of and deaths from COVID-19 at the county and state levels.
  • Data on ICU Beds from Kaiser Health News shows the number of ICU beds by county and also estimates how many people age 60 or over there are in a county for each ICU bed.

COVID-19 related data can be quickly found by searching with keywords: COVID-19, corona virus, and coronavirus.