Information Literacy: Basic Research Skills"There are several good books out there but the least expensive costs a few lunches or a couple months’ trolley budget. The need seemed obvious for an Information Literacy OER for our students, so we wrote one....The overarching approach: keep it at the community college level, keep it short, stick with the basics assuming the content would be supplemented by the depth of the class work and assignments, write it as the class is taught in that it would cover transferable skills and not be San Diego City College specific, write it as a text book in that it does not follow my class schedule, but makes sense as a book, do not use a single theme or research question for all the examples in the book, but rather use a variety in hopes that variety would hold interest and/or in hope at least one might resonate with each student, create a title that says what it is and would be easily found by librarians as opposed to some creative title such as 'It isn’t Rocket Science: what you need to know about research.'"