This handbook provides guidelines for orienting kindergarten through eighth grade students to school libraries and media centers. Included are units covering: (1) orientation and care of materials; (2) parts of a book; (3) card catalog, classification, and arrangement; (4) research and reference; (5) magazines and the Readers Guide; (6) non-print…

This document contains a program description, curriculum outlines, and evaluation of the 2-week summer preservice program (June 15-26, 1970) to train 30 teacher aides who would support teachers, allowing opportunity to personalize and individualize instruction for children. The program operation, objectives, and procedures for selecting trainees…

A program involving instruction in library skills, reading skills, and study skills is described. High school graduates, rated as underachievers, took a 3-week skills instruction course, followed by regular summer session college work, as a means of preparing themselves for college. Counseling was provided in individual and group sessions. When…

The purpose of this institute is to provide the individual with an introduction to the place of the library technical assistant in the organization of the college, public, school or special library. Orientation information stresses the areas of material processing, patron services, non-print media, and automation. Tours of the Engelhard Elementary…

Using a 40-student sample from the entering freshmen class of St. Francis Seminary High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, the library skills instruction in elementary and secondary schools was evaluated. A questionnaire was sent to 61 schools previously attended by the students in the sample to gather information on their library instruction programs.…

This three phase library program was presented to some two hundred students enrolled in sections of an English composition course taught at the State University of New York College at Brockport. Offered each fall and spring semester since the spring of 1975, the library program has been incorporated into a nine module, self-guided course, taught…

Academic librarians recognize that success in teaching college students library skills is likely only if library instruction is interwoven with regular teaching programs. Examples of ways in which librarians have involved the faculty in innovative joint programs are described. (LBH)

Discusses an instructional program for physics students in the use of libraries and information sources that includes a literature researching project. (MLH)

This examination of the emerging theoretical base of library instruction in schools combines learning theory with research on information-seeking behavior and a broader view of library and information skills. Thirty-five references are listed. (MES)

Outlines objectives, resources, instructional roles, procedures, evaluation, and follow-up for six fully developed library media activities. Activities use the following topics to teach library skills: (1) drug abuse; (2) notetaking; (3) tales of the sea; (4) ocean animals' habitats; (5) prehistoric animals; and (6) international currency. (MES)

Discusses management of two interdependent domains of inner behavior in the micro-information environment: voluntary or affective skills and intellectual or cognitive skills. Examples are given under six principles for boosting motivational level of user of information services: affective knowing, social facilitation, affective Zeigarnik effect,…

Outlines a method for compiling information from secondary sources without assigning lengthy research papers in both business communications and principles of marketing classes. (SRT)

Describes an exercise for California high school seniors which reviews basic library skills. Positive impact of exercise use on study-locational skills scores of the California Assessment Program Survey of Basic Skills is illustrated through a review of test scores from 1977 to 1984. (MBR)

Reports on recent survey of 266 faculty views on undergraduate information skills in university setting, which covered evaluation of students' library skills; use of card catalog, bibliographies, and reference tools; assignments requiring student use of library resources; faculty explanation of literature tools in field; and librarian role in…

Since 1976, Uris Undergraduate Library at Cornell University has provided a program in bibliographic instruction involving 140-150 classes per year and reaching between 2,500 and 3,500 students. In addition to course related and course integrated classes for students at all levels, the program includes intensive training for teacher-librarians.…