Teaching Information Literacy: 35 Practical, Standards-Based Exercises for College Students
"This book, tied to the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, provides, hands-on tools for reference and instruction librarians at colleges and community colleges as well as for others appointed to teach students how to conduct research." Each exercise addresses one or more of the nationally accepted ACRL benchmark standards for information literacy education. The exercises promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and...
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"This book, tied to the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, provides, hands-on tools for reference and instruction librarians at colleges and community colleges as well as for others appointed to teach students how to conduct research." Each exercise addresses one or more of the nationally accepted ACRL benchmark standards for information literacy education. The exercises promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning. Ready to use and easy to modify, these 35 lessons can be used as a full semester course or as a single focused seminar or work shop. Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, the exercises show how to access books and bibliographic information as well as periodicals and indexes, in addition to online sources.
FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh. 1Information Explosion1Ch. 2Getting Ready for Research17Ch. 3The Chain of Information32Ch. 4Issues of the Information Age37Ch. 5Books and Catalogs48Ch. 6Periodicals and Indexes59Ch. 7The Web and Scholarly Research72Ch. 8Other Tools for Research79Ch. 9The Paper Trail Project86App. AInformation Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education97App. BFor Further Reading102Index103
