For faculty: Welcome to the assignment toolkit for Political Science! Please follow the links below to the library’s information literacy modules. The library department recommends each toolkit be introduced in the course curriculum two weeks before research papers, projects or activities are given. The modules are designed to meet the toolkit competencies. Share this introduction video with your students so they can familiarize themselves with how they will use the toolkit.
You can reach out to your toolkit Librarian, Elizabeth Arestyl, at earestyl [at] bmcc.cuny.edu
Note: All quizzes and online activities are self graded. Students receive the results upon completion of the quiz or activity; the results can be emailed or posted in Blackboard.
| Competency 1 | Competency 2 | Competency 3 | Competency 4 |
| Modules #1, 2, 6, & 7 | Module #3, 6, & 7 | Module #4, & 7 | Module #5 |
Basic Research Skills Toolkit
Module 1 – Introduction to BMCC Library Resources – Video | Quiz
Module 2 – Research Process: Exploration through Questions – Video | Quiz | Handout
Module 3 – OneSearch: The Library’s Search Engine – Video | Online Activity | Handout
Module 4 – Evaluate Information – Video | Quiz | Handout
Module 5 – Cite Sources – (APA) Video | Handout
Political Science Toolkit
- Module 6 – Searching Voter Fraud and New York State in the Social Sciences Full Text Database – Video
- Module 7 – Searching for Data in the ICPSR: InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research – Video | Activity
- Toolkit Quiz | Handout
Additional BMCC Library Resources
Our physical collection includes: circulating titles, course reserves, leisure reading, children’s literature review center, comics and graphic novels, periodicals (magazines and newspapers), and the college archives.
Our digital collection includes: research databases, ebook collections, video databases, and the institutional repository.
We invite you to make use of all our resources.
Please let us know if you have any feedback or requests.
