San Antonio College Library

"This book will help instruction librarians create instruction for all types of environments and in all modes of delivery. It includes exercises and worksheets to help the reader work through the instructional design process. Based on Kaplowitz's innovative Teaching Tripod model, it will help instructional librarians clearly define the crucial links between outcomes, activities and assessment."--

This book examines how people gain knowledge and become academically literate in the core subjects of English, mathematics, science, social studies and history. It offers a framework for conceptualizing knowledge development, and explores how one becomes literate in a field.

"A great challenge most new and experienced instructors face is to create and deliver diverse, dynamic instruction that provides students with the tools and knowledge they need to conduct research for their courses and carry those skills to the workplace. Teaching Information Literacy: A Conceptual Approach meets that challenge by providing teaching librarians and others who deliver instruction in information literacy fresh approaches to teaching...

"In this book, Dorothy Warner offers eight disciplinary methods, each identifying a series of information literacy objectives developed in accordance with Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives. A curriculum map embedded within each module: lists the sequence of courses required for the disciplinary major and the level at which the course is taught (sophomore, junior, etc.); notes whether information literacy instruction is currently taught by the...

"Based on Kuhlthau's six stage "Information Search Process," the authors present a convincing argument for recasting Guided Inquiry as a dynamic, innovative way of developing information literacy. Part I discusses the theory and rationale behind adopting a Guided Inquiry approach, as the authors elucidate the expertise, roles, and responsibilities of each member of the instructional team. Part II presents the model in terms of its component parts."--Jacket....

Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, each of the 50 standards-based exercises in this book address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning.

Designed for any librarian who needs to teach either one person at a time or an entire class, this book is a guide to becoming proficient in teaching users how to access, evaluate and use information. Covering both face-to-face and online teaching and learning, the book is divided into three parts: Part 1, Essential Background on Learning & Teaching, gives you just enough background on learning theory, how to plan good instruction, and how to deliver...

"This hands-on guide provides a unique compilation of active-learning exercises that will enhance any for-credit library instruction class, no matter what the setting or audience"--

From the Introduction: This book will be useful to those just now contemplating an online program for their institution. The examples included in this book provide the practical food for thought that should precede and stoke strategic planning. For further information on a particular program, the authors have generously included their e-mail addresses with their biographical information. We hope the programs described in this book provide some modicum...

"The intent of the publication is to help librarians cultivate strategies and approaches for developing data information literacy programs of their own using the work done in the multiyear, IMLS-supported Data Information Literacy (DIL) project as real-world case studies. The initial chapters introduce the concepts and ideas behind data information literacy, such as the twelve data competencies. The middle chapters describe five case studies in data...