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A

Abstracts

ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Active Learning

Aggregator

Assessment

Authentic Assessment

B

Bibliography

Bibliography, Annotated

Boolean operators

Browsers

C

Call number

Citation

Classification system

Classroom assessment

Collaboration

Controlled vocabulary

Copyleft

Copyright

Course-related instruction

Course-integrated instruction

Currency

D

Descriptors

Domain

E

Ejournals

Electronic Portfolio, see Portfolio, Electronic

Evidence-based practice

Egghead

F

Fair use

Formative assessment

Full-text

G

H

Hoax_sites

Holdings statement

Hyperlink

I

Index

Information literacy

Intellectual property

Intelligent agents

Interlibrary loan

Internet

ISP

J

Journal

K

Keyword

L

Librarian

Library of Congress

Library of Congress classification

Library of Congress subject headings

Learning outcomes or objectives

Library catalog

M

Magazine

Metasearch engines

Microfiche

Microfilm

N

Natural language

Nesting terms

O

Objectivity

OPAC

Open Source

Outcomes assessment

P

Peer review

Periodicals

Periodical indexes

Plagiarism

Portfolio, Electronic

Primary source

Problem-based learning

Program assessment

Protocol

Q

R

Refereed article

Resource-based learning

S

Scholarly sources

Scope

Search engine

Search statement

Search strategy

Secondary source

Serial

Server

Style manual

Subject headings

Summative assessment

T

Thesaurus

Trade journal

Truncation

U

URL

V

Volume

W

Webpage

Website

Wiki

World Wide Web

X

Y

Z