Academic librarians at a mid-size university library developed an online information literacy tutorial that is easy to create, access, edit, and organize even for those with limited time and technological skills. Modular in structure, Project Information Literacy Online Tutorial (PILOT) includes interactive exercises, media, and self-testing as…

Focuses on first step in process of implementing library skills instruction through integration with everyday curricular activities of classroom--gathering and evaluating of information about curriculum. Existing curriculum information sources, curriculum mapping, pilot studies testing curriculum mapping feasibility, and implementation of mapping…

Provides rationale for integration of information skills into existing or cooperatively planned curriculum activities in such areas as science, social studies, language, and mathematics. The roles of principals, teachers, and teacher-librarians in integrated programs are outlined, and common approaches to teaching of skills are noted. Twenty…

This book about using the Big6 information problem solving process model in elementary schools is organized into two parts. Providing an overview of the Big6 approach, Part 1 includes the following chapters: "Introduction: The Need," including the information problem, the Big6 and other process models, and teaching/learning the Big6;…

This article examines issues encountered over a two-year period by a faculty librarian at the Penn State University Libraries while developing and delivering course-related library instruction employing problem-based learning (PBL) in the First-Year Seminar (FYS) of the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). The process of…