...Eleonora Dubicki; Susan Bucks Purpose This study aims to explore how government sources provide authoritative data that students can utilize to complete academic course assignments. The study measures student use of government materials and suggests that librarians incorporate government resources...

...B. Jane Scales; Marilyn Von Seggern Purpose – The aim of this paper is to report on the development and assessment of a government document information literacy curriculum by librarians at Washington State University. The pedagogical and assessment goals are described, and the learning outcomes...

... the complexity of varied formats. The material found within the scope of “government information” is wide‐ranging in that it includes text and data generated by entities such as national and state governments and legislative bodies as well as non‐governmental agencies. Information produced for both operational...

... and inter‐governmental resources. Two courses form the core of the credit instruction currently offered by the section: “Federal & Legal Information Sources” and “Introduction to Research in International Relations”. The authors note that both courses follow a similar framework, first introducing...