The Densho website provides first-hand accounts and other resources that document the experience of Japanese American incarceration in World War II. This activity guides students through the Densho Encyclopedia to find historical and cultural information related to themes from Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.

This article describes an active-learning exercise intended to help teach copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licenses. In the exercise students use a worksheet to draw original pictures, create derivative pictures on tracing paper, select Creative Commons licenses, and explore commercial usage, fair use, and copyright infringement. Librarian-instructors may find the completed worksheets to be useful aids to supplement copyright lectures; student perspectives will be integral because they are generating the examples used in discussion.

A primer on how to read academic articles by guiding the class through a series of questions. Give students 5-15 minutes per slide to answer the questions (individually or in groups) before talking about their answers to questions with the whole class.

This is an activity to get students to think critically about the sources and information presented in a Wikipedia article.