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López-Fitzsimmons, Bernadette M.; Nagra, Kanu A. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
Twenty-first century undergraduates demand quick access to authoritative sources that are easily read without challenging technical and disciplinary language. They expect comprehensible natural language--exactly like Google's--which can be read without concentrating for long periods of time. Integrating Google and Google Scholar in library…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Martin, Nichole A.; Martin, Ross – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2015
Video tutorials are a common form of library instruction used with distance learners. This paper combines professional experience and literature reviews from multiple disciplines to provide a contextual overview of recommendations and findings for effective and engaging videos. The tools for tutorials appear in five main categories: screencasts,…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Video Technology, Distance Education, Teaching Methods
Foote, Carolyn – Knowledge Quest, 2016
When secondary school librarians teach students digital life literacies, they help students perceive that librarians can provide support for real-life problems. The more librarians work with students, create inviting library environments, and have positive engagements with students, the more they change student perceptions of librarians in…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Achievement, School Libraries, Librarians
Fontichiaro, Kristin – School Library Monthly, 2011
Top Chef is one of America's top food television shows. In one episode, lead judge Tom Colicchio, chef and restaurant owner, chides a contestant for hurriedly slicing a piece of meat as soon as it had emerged from the oven. The meat was fully cooked, but the competitor had not "let it rest," or let it steep in its own juices outside the oven for…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Teaching Methods, Library Skills
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Hart, Kathy, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
Eighteen scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the seventeenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship.…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Publishing, Archives, Educational Technology
Humrickhouse, Elizabeth – Online Submission, 2011
This paper examines how library educators can implement Web 2.0 tools in their Information Literacy programs to better prepare students for the rigors of academic research. Additionally, this paper looks at transliteracy and constructivism as the most useful teaching methods in a Web 2.0 classroom and attempts to pinpoint specific educational…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Needs, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Goss, Harold, Jr. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
The expectations placed on library instruction programs by the Association of College and Research Libraries are high. Many universities also include information literacy competencies as learning objectives to be assessed at the institutional level. With those standards in mind, it is becoming increasingly difficult to adequately educate students…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Research Libraries, Information Literacy
Ury, Connie Jo., Ed.; Baudino, Frank, Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
These proceedings document the fifth year of the "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium", held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. Thirty five peer-reviewed papers and abstracts, written by academic librarians, and presented at the symposium are included in this volume. Many of the entries have…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Reference Materials, Search Engines, Marketing