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Kirk, Thomas G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1984
Bibliographic instruction can do more than provide directions on library use for a specific assignment; it can contribute to the objectives of liberal education by teaching skills in asking questions, critically analyzing information, and answering questions. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Educational Needs

Rettig, James – Reference Services Review, 1995
The future role, scope, and nature of bibliographic instruction (BI) and reference services at academic libraries is unresolved. Both have felt internal pressures and challenges during the past decade. It is suggested that BI and reference share tasks and become a single service. (92 references) (Author/DGM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Conflict, Futures (of Society)
Bowie, Melvin M. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1990
Discusses recommendations on how social studies concepts should be presented to elementary and secondary school students so that broad understandings and problem-solving skills emerge. Intervention strategies that might be useful to library media specialists as they help teachers and students with resource-based units of instruction are described.…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Reading, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development

Eisenberg, Michael B.; Spitzer, Kathleen L. – Catholic Library World, 1991
Addresses the implications for education of the expansion of information technology and proposes a model for teaching information skills within the context of an overall process. A model called the "Big Six Skills" is presented, and its application to information problems related to school, life, and work are explained. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy
Danley, Elizabeth B.; Forde, Janet Lynch; Lahmon, Jo Ann; Maddox, Beverly K. – 1999
This study surveyed 126 school librarians in 18 countries, representing 131 schools serving more than 113,260 students. The survey instrument requested respondents to describe techniques they used to facilitate information literacy, their perceptions of their functions in the development of independent learners, and the training they received that…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy