East Asian Studies Information Fluency
A course taught with EALC 700

"East Asian Information Fluency" is designed to equip students of East Asian studies with essential skills needed to search, evaluate, select, and acquire East Asian information found in local library collections as well as sources available around the world. Students will be trained in use of information technologies to find, access, acquire, evaluate, compare, and compile information datasets in order to produce and present scholarly works effectively and ethically on East Asian topics.

Instructional Contact: Vickie Doll, vdoll at ku.edu (China) and Michiko Ito, mito at ku.edu (Japan)
Please contact one of the subject specialist librarians for inquiries regarding East Asian studies instruction.

Scheduling a Class:
Course-related and subject-oriented library instruction is available upon request of faculty members. Please contact the appropriate librarian to schedule a session.

Course-Related Instruction:
The East Asian Library offers instruction on Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies. Librarians teaching information fluency sessions are subject specialists and can offer faculty and students research strategies and instruction.

General Tours & Orientation Sessions:
Tthe East Asian Librarians conduct orientation sessions for incoming East Asian Studies students. Tours of the East Asian Library can be arranged by contacting a librarian.

Steps to Research:

1. Define topic (Cornell)
2. Writing and citing
3. Locate library resources, Access other resources
4. Evaluate findings (Cornell)
5. Compile citations: Columbia Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources), APA Styles, and bibliographic software (U of Barcelona)

Instruction Contents:

Research Strategies and Introduction to Conduct Research Using Information Technology

Resources at KU and Remote: OPACs, ILL/DL

East Asian Studies Major Reference Works in Print or E-format in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages

East Asian Studies E-Resources

Conduct Research Using Information Technology (East Asian character fonts/Global IME; bibliographical software/tools)