Directions for the Decade

Directions for the Decade

Author: Carolyn A. Kirkendall

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Published for the Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University by Pierian Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Library Instruction

Library Instruction

Author: Susan Deese-Roberts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2000-09-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0313023239

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Changing technologies and diversifying populations have meant a higher demand for library instruction at most academic libraries. This book demonstrates how you can meet that demand by using peer tutors to support and enhance your library services. Peer tutors can teach library patrons online search concepts and skills and how to use other specific research tools. This practical, step-by-step plan for developing and implementing a peer tutoring program can improve library services and make your job easier.


Reference and Instructional Services for Information Literacy Skills in School Libraries

Reference and Instructional Services for Information Literacy Skills in School Libraries

Author: Scott Lanning

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-05-28

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1610696727

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Students need to be able to distinguish good information from bad. This book gives you the tools to transmit those essential skills to your students. Being an effective school librarian requires acting as an active instructional partner, an advocate for information literacy and information resources, and a reference librarian. Now in its third edition, this concise book provides you with a solid foundation in providing reference services to students as well as teachers. It details all aspects of providing essential reference services in the context of the AASL Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the evolving role of today's school librarian. Author Scott Lanning emphasizes service and instruction while addressing topics such as inquiry, critical thinking, building core reference skills, electronic and Web resources, leadership skills, and virtual reference services. The book begins with chapters that discuss information and the information-seeking process. The following sections cover the provision of reference services, methods for teaching information literacy, the use of electronic resources in general, and the creation of library resources that support reference and instruction. The text concludes with an assessment of the value of reference and instruction services to the school and beyond.


Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction

Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction

Author: Nancy Pickering Thomas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010. The development of information literacy skills instruction can be traced from its basis in traditional reference services to its current growth as an instructional imperative for school librarians. Reviewing the scholarly research that supports best practices in the 21st-century school library, this book contains insights into improving instruction across content areas—drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology—that will be useful to school, academic, and public librarians and LIS students. In this updated fourth edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking in changing instructional environments made possible by the Internet and new technologies. This new edition also includes new chapters on everyday information seeking and motivation and a much-expanded chapter on Web 2.0. The new AASL standards are included and explored in the discussion. This book will appeal to LIS professors and students in school librarianship programs as well as to practicing school librarians.