This document describes an information literacy game show that teaches students search techniques and how to locate different types of information resources. The game show involves 4-5 students competing to guess the retail prices of various library materials. Students earn points for closest guesses and compete in challenges to locate resources in the library catalog. The document provides examples of different information resources like books, journal articles, newspapers, documentaries and their typical retail prices.

1. INFORMATION LITERACY:
The Game Show!

2. Search Techniques
• title searches
• keyword searches
• phrase searching
• using 360 link

3. Game Rules!
• 4-5 students come on down!
• The co-host will describe a library item
• You guess the retail price
• The winner? Whoever guesses the
closest price without going over wins a
point and goes on to the next challenge.
If everyone goes over, the person with
the closest price goes on to the next
challenge
• The next challenge is locating the
resource in U-Search in under 2 minutes

4. Finding an entry in an
encyclopedia
1. Find the
encyclopedia title
2. Look for the entry

11. Finding an article
Use the
• title of the source
• title of the article
“Phrase searching” helps!

14. U-Search…
• Has HALF of our databases
automatically plugged into it!
• You can retrieve SOME
information in other
databases through 360 Link

15. Using 360 Link
• Locate your item in U-Search
• Click the icon:
• Click "link to full text article“

20. Are you ready to play?

21. Primary Sources
letters, journals, memoirs,
interviews, and more

22. Actual Retail Price?

23. $29.98
Queen Victoria in Her
Letters and Journals

24. Secondary Sources
Author analyzes primary
sources to make own conclusions

25. Actual Retail Price?

26. $229.74
American Music in the
Twentieth Century

27. Encyclopedias
Give you some background of an issue

28. Actual Retail Price?

29. $446.73
Encyclopedia of
Political Theory

30. Scholarly Journal Articles
• Written by experts
• Can be very recent research

31. Actual Retail Price?

32. $37.50
“Western Concepts,
Chinese Context”
From the journal
International Journal
of Pedagogies and Learning

33. Newspaper Articles
• Written by journalists/non-experts
• Can be recent information

34. Actual Retail Price?

35. $3.95
“Murder in Mind”
From the newspaper
Washington Post

36. Magazine Articles
• Written by journalists/non-experts
• Can be recent information

37. Actual Retail Price?

38. $5.95
“South Padre’s Magic
Shrinking Beaches”
From the magazine
Saturday Evening Post

39. SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
How much would you estimate
all these items are worth?

40. Book Reviews
Explains the author’s argument and
how s/he tried to make it

41. Actual Retail Price?

42. $35.00
“Consumed: How
Markets Corrupt”
From the journal
Journal of Industrial Ecology

43. Documentaries
Tell stories about real events and people

44. Actual Retail Price?

45. $19.78
Exit Through
the Gift Shop

46. Author’s Method
Institutional study

47. Actual Retail Price?

48. $32.00
“Peeling Back
the Layers”
From the journal
Enterprise & Society

49. Author’s Method
Biological study

50. Actual Retail Price?

51. $31.50
“Engineering Plant
Metabolism into
Microbes”
From the journal
Current Opinion
in Biotechnology

52. Author’s Method
Community study

53. Actual Retail Price?

54. $30.73
"A Primary School
Arts Festival”
From the journal
Victorian Journal of
Music Education

55. Author’s Method
Focuses on mapmaking techniques

56. Actual Retail Price?

57. $20.00
‘‘Giuseppe Vasi's Nuova
Pianta di Roma (1781)’’
From the journal
Eighteenth-Century Studies

58. SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
How much would you estimate
all these items are worth?

59. Search Techniques
• title searches
• keyword searches
• phrase searching
• using 360 link

60. Questions? Contact us!
Porter Henderson Library Research Assistance
reference@angelo.edu
(325) 486-6534