Bibliography
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LIRT Top Twenty Instruction Articles for 1996
- This site also links to earlier top twenty lists.
- Alberico, Ralph, and Elizabeth Dupuis
- The
World Wide Web as an Instructional Medium
- A summary of a paper presented by at the 1995 LOEX Conference describing
the use of Web pages for library instruction at the University of
Texas at Austin Undergraduate Library. They describe a number of uses
such as incorporation of library resources guides into class web pages,
tutorials on Internet resources, pathfinders to information sources
in specific pages, and how students can develop their own personal
research pages. Examples are included at the web site.
- Barron, Daniel D.
- Hypertext and Hypermedia: Resources for School Library
Media Specialists. School Library Media Activities Monthly
7:8 (April 1991): 47-50.
Encourages school library media specialists to explore the capabilities
of hypermedia and hypertext, and lists books, articles, and guides
for librarians to find out more about learning and utilizing this
authoring language. Applications of hypermedia and hypertext in libraries
and media centers are discussed.
- Blake, Virgil L. P.
- The Virtual Library Impact the School Library Media Center.
School Library Media Annual v.12, 1994: 4-15.
- Cornelio, Alicia.
- A Multimedia Approach to Teaching Library Research Skills.
School Library Media Activities Monthly 10:6 (February 1994): 38-40.
Describes activities and procedures that were developed to teach library
research skills to grades five through eight using multimedia instruction,
including the use of HyperStudio software. Highlights include library
media skills objectives, curriculum objectives, resources, instructional
roles, hardware and software requirements, evaluation, and follow-up.
- Farmer, Lesley S. Johnson.
- Hyperlearning: Library Instruction through HyperCard.
Journal of Youth Services in Libraries v. 4 (Summer 1991): 393-5.
Describes the development of a set of modules using HyperCard for
basic library skills instruction that is primarily oriented to secondary
and postsecondary school library users. A research study on student
searching strategies and cooperative learning is described, and the
development of a student workbook on developing HyperCard stacks is
discussed.
- Farmer, Lesley S. Johnson.
- The Romance and the Reality of Developing Hypermedia
Modules. Book report v. 12 (March/April 1994): 15-16
The romance, of receiving a grant to create hypermedia for library
instruction, was tempered with the reality of the actual work involved.
The author worked with CLIP (Computer-Based Library Instruction Project),
a California consortium created to develop HyperCard library instruction
units. The project required motivation, cooperation, deadlines, and
expertise. The author gave pointers in how to design "nearly" perfect
CAI-BI units.
- Farmer, Lesley S. J.
- Teaching Skills by HyperCard. Book Report
12:3 (November/December 1993): 15, 18.
This is one of nine articles that address issues involved in teaching
library skills in middle schools and junior and senior high schools.
The author describes CLIP (California Library Instruction Project)
that promotes HyperCard development for library instruction.
- Farmer, Lesley S. Johnson.
- Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow: Using Hypermedia for Library
Information Instruction. Catholic Library World 64:4
(April/June 1994): 22-25.
- Describes the HyperCard Library Instruction Project (CLIP) and the
research upon which it is based. Findings of research of HyperCard
instruction with secondary students and a description of ways to use
HyperCard instruction are presented. A sidebar article describes the
California-based CLIP program and the HyperCard modules the organization
is developing for local use.
- Feinman, Valerie Jackson.
- Bibliographic Instruction: a Basic Guide.
Computers in Libraries 13:1 (January 1993): pp. 63-68.
This article summarizes the basics of library instruction methods.
Included are results of a survey done in 1992 by the LIRT Research
Committee, which found that 66% of public, 78% academic, 26% special
and 49% of school libraries provide instruction on electronic resources.
- Ford, Collette C.
- Model
for Training Trainers on the Internet University
of California, Irvine.
- Grassian, Esther
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Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
UCLA College Library
- Gray, Robert A.
- The School Media Specialist: Teaching in the Information
Age. Tech Trends 39:6 (November/December 1994): 45-46.
- Information Access
Instruction
- This is a commercially available package of books and software for
bibliographic instruction. It was featured in an article in C&RL
56(3): 249-257 May 1995. It is described as consisting of 10 modules
covering use of the Internet, PAC, DE databases, and search strategies,
among other topics. A bibliography on electronic bibliographic instruction
is also available at this site.
- Jensen, Ann; Julie Sih, and Nancy Garman.
- Using E-mail and the Internet to teach users at their
Desktops Online 19:5 (September-October, 1995): 82-87.
Engineering librarians at University of California, San Diego and
Berkely campuses use electronic mail as a delivery method for instruction
modules. These tutorials are available at
the University of California, San Diego web site
- Jones, Debra.
- Critical Thinking in an Online World. 1996:
Cabrillo College.
This self-paced workbook is used to introduce patrons to resources
of the Internet, concepts of critical thinking skills, and the basics
of evaluation of online sources. References.
- Maples, Margaret K., and Tennessee J. Jones.
- Instruction in Electronic Searches. Book
Report 10(3): p. 21.
- This is one of ten articles that discuss teaching research skills
to junior and senior high school students. The authors designed a
program to introduce ninth graders to electronic searches. It calls
for large group instruction, teaching stations, and individual help
by trained student assistants.
- Matsco, Sharon, and Sharon Campbell.
- Writing a Library Home Page." Public Libraries (Sept./Oct.
1996): 284-286.
The Rochester Hills Public Library in Rochester, Michigan, has an
award-winning page, the result of intense research and thoughtful
consideration. View the page at Rochester
Public Library
- National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
- The 1996 National Survey of Public Libraries and the
Internet: Progress and Issues. Final Report. Washington,
DC: U. S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science,
1996.
Available at the NCLIS website
- National Library of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement, U. S. Department of Education.
- World Wide Web Server Standards and Guidelines.
March 18, 1996.
- web site, Robert W.
- Library Web Construction 101 Public Libraries
35:3 (May/June 1996): 168-71.
Lists sources for public library web sites; includes web addresses
for libraries offering unique features.
- Pawlowski, Connie, and Patsy Troutman.
- Blending Print & Electronic Sources Book
Report 10:3 (November/December 1991): 14-15, 17.
This is one of ten articles that discuss teaching research skills
to junior and senior high school students. The authors revamped their
library skills instruction to incorporate both their print and electronic
materials.
- Scholz, Ann Margaret, Richard Cary Kerr, and Samuel Keith Brown.
- PLUTO: Interactive Instruction on the Web.
C&RL News 57:6 (June 1996): 346-349.
PLUTO is the acronym for Purdue's online library orientation project.
It is designed for incoming students with minimal electronic searching
skills and has been incorporated into a beginning engineering course
as a Beta test. Students register online and then work through instruction
and interactive quizzes designed to teach them how to define and formulate
keyword searches, retrieve information using the library's online
system, and locate information within the library system. There are
links within the program to provide students with more information
on the selected topic. Information on student completion of the quizzes
is forwarded to the instructor.
- Scholz, Ann.
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Evaluating World Wide Web Information Purdue University
Libraries
- Sine, Lynn.
- Teaching Information Skills at the Primary Grade Levels.
School Library Media Activities Monthly 10:9 (May 1994):19-30, 33.
Offers suggestions for teaching information skills to kindergarten
through second-grade students. Highlights include book titles to use
as discussion lead-ins; library group activities; the use of technology,
including computer software and electronic mail; and problem-solving
skills.
- Trupiano, Rose.
- CALICO: Teaching Library Skills to Students.
Computers in Libraries v. 9 (February 1989): 27-9.
CALICO is a commercial enterprise for computer assisted library instruction.
- Webster, Kathleen, and Kathryn Paul.
- Beyond Surfing:
Tools and Techniques for Searching the Web Information Technology:
January 1996.
- Wood, Carolyn.
- Selection Criteria for World Wide Web Resources.
Public Libraries 35:3 (May/June 1996): 169.
A list of criteria for assessing the value of a Web site.
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