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THESE OUT!Learning styles, information literacy skills, and instruction about the World Wide Web - ideas in the library literature abound. If you missed these articles, be sure to check them out!
Research About Learners
Burdick, Tracey A. "Success and Diversity in Information Seeking: Gender and the Information Search Styles Model." School Library Media Quarterly 25 (Fall 1996): 19-26.
Review of an exploratory study about gender differences in the information search process, looking at actions, thinking, and feelings. The research found that the differences were less related to gender than to styles of information-seeking.
Griggs, Shirley and Rita Dunn. "Learning Styles of Asian-American Adolescents." Emergency Librarian 24 (Sept.-Oct. 1996): 8-13.
Reviews research, defines cultural values and discusses implications for teaching.
WORLD WIDE WEB - Planning for Library Web Sites & Teaching Evaluation
These two articles, taken together, offer help in planning for organizational support and tips for developing a library home page:
Cunningham, Jim. "So You Want to Put Your Library on the Web?" Computers in Libraries 17 (February 1997): 42-45.
Matsco, Sandra and Sharon Campbell. "Writing A Library Home Page." Public Libraries 35 (Sept.- Oct.1996): 284-286.
Teaching users to evaluate resources found on the Web is a major concern of instruction librarians. The articles below offer promising ideas for users at all levels. Fitzgerald describes Internet misinformation and proposes a set of evaluation skills. Tate and Alexander provide a 3-part lesson plan with a checklist.
Fitzgerald, Mary Ann. "Misinformation on the Internet: Applying Evaluation Skills to Online Information." Emergency Librarian 24 (Jan.-Feb. 1997): 9-14.
Tate, Marsha and Jane Alexander. "Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources." Computers in Libraries 16 (Nov.-Dec.1996): 49-54.
Many libraries are interested in developing an interactive, virtual library tour on the World Wide Web. A description of the planning process, design, and development of the Texas A & M University Evans Library tour appears in:
Mosley, Pixie Anne and Xiao, Daniel. "Touring the Campus Library from the World Wide Web." RSR: Reference Services Review 24.4 (1996): 7-14.
Recent discussions on the BI-L bibliographic instruction listserv resulted in the development of a page on which Pamela Thomas of Syracuse University Libraries has made links to the public and academic library virtual library tours she found. See the list at: URL: http://web.syr.edu/~pjmerrim/instr/index2.htm
IN BRIEF
School librarians may find the Summer 1996 (volume 18, no. 4) issue of Indiana Media Journal useful. Two particularly useful articles are:
The Colorado Department of Education. "Information Literacy Guidelines, Assessment for Information Literacy, and Assessment of School Library Media Programs (draft)," 39-71 which contain an extensive collection of rubrics for assessing information literacy developed in 1996 to support the 1994 guidelines.
Mehlinger, Howard. "Teaching and Learning in the Information Age":
Excerpts from School Reform in the Information Age. 24-38, which focuses on new theories of teaching and of learning.
Control of their own learning is important to many students. One method is the modular approach, described in: Ramey, Mary Ann. "Student Choice: A Modular Approach to Library Instruction." Research Strategies 14 (Fall 1996): 246-151. Rader, Hannelore. "Library Instruction and Information LiteracyQ1995." RSR: Reference Services Review 24.4 (1996): 77- .
The latest installment in Dr. RaderUs famous annotated bibliography, with a new title.
