Recommends a series of six exercises designed to help students become familiar with a number of different resources in a school library. (TJ)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)

Describes the library component of a summer session for entering minority freshmen. The exercise includes searching for and summarizing reviews of a reading assignment. A bibliography of book review sources is included. (HTH)

An approach to using a student's own birthday as the basis of a library research project for college and high school students is described in this brief article. AUTHOR'S COMMENT (excerpt): I found my students became very excited about a topic that introduced them to the library while exciting their curiosity and interest: to investigate events…