San Joaquin Delta College

Library Courses

Goleman Library offers the following self-paced library and information literacy courses which are UC and CSU transferable. They are designed to help students learn to utilize various types of information resources and develop their library research and information competency skills. For more information about the courses, please check your current Schedule of Classes or contact Reference Desk at (209) 954-5145.

• Library Information Literacy (LIBRY 1)  is a one-unit course, which has a pre-requisite of Reading Level II. It is designed to help the student develop information literacy skills and to introduce the variety of information resources and information retrieval tools available in academic libraries.  The student learns how to develop research strategies and how to utilize library resources and services to effectively retrieve information in this self-paced course.

• Advanced Library Information Literacy (LIBRY 2) is a two-unit course, which has a pre-requisite of LIBRY 1. It is designed to further develop the student’s information literacy and critical thinking skills learned in Library Information Literacy.  Special emphasis is given to the Internet as a research tool, advanced online database searching, online searching strategies, general and specialized reference sources in both print and electronic formats, law reference sources, and career information.