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Peer reviewedBirdsall, Douglas – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Reviews briefly the state of library instruction in today's academic libraries. Discusses three approaches to teaching library skills at the freshman level and details the author's experiences in working with a freshman composition course. (HTH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Snoddon, Ruth V.; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Descriptions of activities designed to enhance the learning of library and information skills focus on the location of materials (ready-to-use library skills games); finding materials in the card catalog; and Aesop's fables. Games and puzzles are provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Several activities, games, and puzzles designed to teach elementary school children how to use a thesaurus are described and copies of worksheets are provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Ventura County Superintendent of Schools, CA. – 1984
This resource guide was developed to provide teachers with ready-to-use activity sheets and suggested discussion topics to teach basic skills students need to use both school and public libraries effectively. Several assumptions were made in developing the guide: students can read at their grade level (although most materials are easily adapted);…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Instructional Materials, Library Cooperation
Peer reviewedJones, Ann D.; Stevens, Eleanor – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1986
Outlines a method for compiling information from secondary sources without assigning lengthy research papers in both business communications and principles of marketing classes. (SRT)
Descriptors: Course Content, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Pracht, Carl Joseph – 1991
"Library Skills for ESL Students" is a teacher's manual for a university-level course for international students offered at Southeast Missouri State University. This manual includes most things necessary to teach this course: curriculum guide, syllabus, lesson plans, tests, quizzes, and exercises. Several problem-solving exercises are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Bousfield, Wendy; And Others – 1984
Used in freshman composition courses and some other introductory Syracuse University (SU) classes, the primary purpose of this illustrated workbook is to provide students with experience using the different features of the SU Libraries' online catalog, SULIRS. The workbook's self-paced exercises correspond to the text of two SU Libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Library Catalogs
Peer reviewedWebb, C. Anne – English Journal, 1985
Points out that the use of the library is an important part of the educational process and that teaching recreational reading and browsing skills should be mandatory.(EL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedEgan, Philip J. – College Teaching, 1992
College students are often reluctant to use libraries, despite the resources available there. Teachers assigning projects that require research might also require conferences with students in the library, possibly in small groups, to provide assistance in preliminary stages. This helps students locate and use varied information sources and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students
Download full textAllen, Mary Beth – 1987
The University of Illinois Undergraduate Library offers a unique bibliographic instruction (BI) program for students enrolled in freshman rhetoric, English, or English as a second language courses. It consists of 11 different programs and 10 distinct components, each specially developed for a distinct student group. Although each BI program is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, College English, Foreign Students
Peer reviewedMerriam, Joyce; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Proposes guidelines to promote student-oriented bibliographic instruction programs on college campuses. Urges faculty, librarians, and professional associations to collaborate to develop materials to help students use library resources effectively. Includes guidelines for locating known sources, conducting a literature search, making effective use…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Hammond, Jean K. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Describes a program at an independent college preparatory school which introduces primary grade students to research techniques and tools through a carefully planned sequence of encounters with library research and reference aids. (CLB)
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Learning Activities, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction
Voluntary Services Overseas, Castries (St. Lucia). – 1994
This resource guide contains worksheets and ideas that can be used to promote reading and library use in a school library setting. The pack provides a framework around which a program of library and information skills training can be built, and suggests activities for reinforcing the lessons learned at each stage of the process. Many of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Information Skills, Library Instruction
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1991
This publication provides guidelines designed to assist Maryland library media administrators and specialists in planning, developing, and implementing kindergarten through twelfth grade library media programs. It provides a broad outline from which local systems may construct library media programs integrated with other curricular units. The…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of School Media Programs. – 1985
This volume of the "Teacher Handbook," a product of the extensive audit and revision of curriculum carried out by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction in 1984 in order to develop a basic education program for the state's public schools presents a competency-based curriculum in library/media and computer skills.…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education
