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Eisenberg, Michael B.; Berkowitz, Robert E. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1992
Explains the components of a library and information skills curriculum and integrated instructional model that was developed to help students solve information problems. The six steps include (1) task definition, (2) information seeking strategies, (3) location and access, (4) use of information, (5) synthesis, and (6) evaluation. (LRW)
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Needs, Information Seeking
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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)
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Nahl-Jakobovits, Diane; Jakobovits, Leon A. – College and Research Libraries, 1988
Discusses the need for library science to examine users' search behaviors in the context of social cognition and creative problem solving. Topics covered include the psychology of search behavior, problem solving approaches to library instruction in online searching, and problem solving protocols. (29 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Information Retrieval
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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
Brown, Lyn S.; Ryan, G. Jeremiah – 1995
One of the many requirements for students majoring in Bible in the undergraduate program at Philadelphia College of Bible (Pennsylvania) is writing papers. The papers are designed to develop research skills, sharpen writing skills, encourage critical thinking, and promote problem-solving skills. However, students are not adequately prepared to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Information Literacy
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – 1987
This review of the research literature describes and discusses functional/information literacy in the age of computers and the resulting "information explosion," together with means by which students can become competent information users in the future and be enabled to lead productive, meaningful lives. Defined as comprising library…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Lyn Stephen – 1996
One of the requirements for students majoring in Bible in the undergraduate school of Philadelphia College of Bible (Pennsylvania) is writing research papers. The papers are designed to promote information literacy by developing research skills, sharpening writing skills, encouraging critical thinking, and promoting problem-solving skills.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods