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Going to Charleston? Visit Infobase at table #140 and learn how to strengthen information literacy and critical thinking skills on campus. Book an appointment with us in Charleston for a chance to win a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card!*

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Infobase Resources for Building Critical Thinking & Information Literacy Skills

• Bloom’s Literature: A one-of-a-kind multimedia research database offering both full-text literary works and the criticism, analysis, and supplementary materials that put them into context. Learn in different modalities with a robust multimedia collection that includes hundreds of documentaries, interviews, and podcasts. Suggested essay topics support instructors in building courses and assignments and provide students with points of entry into important texts. From Shakespeare to contemporary works, Bloom’s is where literature lives.
• Credo Reference: An award-winning academic resource delivering premier reference content and images on a simple, instruction-friendly platform. Browse citable background information on any topic, learn basic resource evaluation, and dig into interactive Mind Maps that encourage exploration. The federated search integrates seamlessly with other major library resources, driving even deeper discovery. Smart research starts with Credo.
• Films On Demand: A comprehensive, instruction-focused streaming video subscription that offers every student and academic department on campus unlimited access to the most essential videos for their field of study. Includes exceptional content from the world’s top producers, such as PBS, BBC, A&E, National Geographic, and HBO®. All Films On Demand collections include unlimited views, a full statistical suite, and tools to create clips, share playlists and build in-video assessments.
• Information Literacy – Core: Standards-aligned multimedia courseware focused on information literacy skills, built on and aligned with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Fully customizable, with extensive assessment capabilities, InfoLit – Core is easy to integrate and use in formal courses, one-shot sessions, or point-of-need instruction.
• Issues & Controversies: A multimedia research database offering constantly updated

pro/con articles and carefully curated supplementary sources that together present political and social issues clearly, coherently, and without bias. Probe hundreds of topics—including recent events, timely cultural questions, and ongoing elections—from different angles in order to write analytically, debate with confidence, develop critical-thinking skills, and connect coursework to current events. 

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