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Think Warm Thoughts: Plan Ahead for Summertime Information Literacy Programs! The College Connection
Kasowitz-Scheer, Abby – Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2009
It's winter! While it is frosty outside, one can at least think warm thoughts by starting now to plan ahead for summer information literacy programs. This article is designed to provide some ideas for planning next summer's reading, sleuthing, and research programs. It features a variety of programs organized by academic librarians this past…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Librarians, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking

Bruce, C. S.; Brameld, G. H. – Higher Education Research and Development, 1990
A library instruction program has been instituted in civil engineering at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in an effort to improve the research skills of fourth year students working on research projects. Students with extended library instruction were found to have better information-seeking behavior than others. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, College Seniors, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – 1984
An extension of a doctoral dissertation that studied a group of high school seniors while they used the library for two assigned research papers, this paper presents a process approach to library skills instruction for high school students. The doctoral study traced the research process used by the students through a number of devices including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, High School Seniors, Library Instruction, Library Research

Evans, Beth – Research Strategies, 1997
Describes a cooperative project in which Brooklyn College librarians provided honors students, teachers, and librarians in two New York City high schools with basic bibliographic instruction and access to the college library. The teachers assigned projects requiring college-level research. Outlines preparation and instruction and discusses student…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College School Cooperation, High Schools, Higher Education

Fink, Deborah – Research Strategies, 1986
Guidelines for developing effective research assignments were distributed to University of Colorado, Boulder, teaching assistants and faculty by the Instructional Services Librarian. Suggestions concerning what to do (i.e., clarify research objectives, schedule library presentation) and what not to do (i.e., limit research to particular index or…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Library Instruction

Cook, Kim N.; And Others – Research Strategies, 1995
Librarians from three regional campuses of Kent State University examine cooperative learning as an alternative to a lecture format for bibliographic instruction. The results of a research project comparing the effectiveness of cooperative learning and traditional methods are presented. Discussion includes problems in the evaluation process; steps…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Programs

Hansen, Forest; Lee, Joann H. – Research Strategies, 1985
Provides a capsule description of a library research course in ancient Greek civilizations which was team-taught by a humanities professor and a reference librarian. Course objectives, research projects, commentary by librarian and professor, and applicability of the approach in other colleges and universities are discussed. Five sources are…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Course Descriptions, Greek Civilization, Higher Education

Atton, Chris – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1994
Critical thinking exercises incorporated into an undergraduate course of bibliographic instruction encourage students to analyze and evaluate information and retrieval methods, thus enabling them to become more effective information users. (AEF)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Information Literacy

Gray, Rosemary – Education for Information: The International Review of Education and Training in Library and Information Science, 1984
Discusses use of online legal research databases in British law schools, priorities of legal research education, and role of law librarians; reviews implications of online systems; and describes a methods course which provides a comparative approach to traditional and online legal research and integrates research education within the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Databases, Higher Education