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Hands-On Information Literacy Activities | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jane Birks, Fiona Hunt
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 602083
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 135
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1555704565
Dewey Decimal Number: 028.70712
EAN: 9781555704568
ASIN: 1555704565
Publication Date: February 15, 2003
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Book Description
This comprehensive collection of interactive learning activities (with free CD-ROM)is designed to develop key information literacy skills—determining the nature and extent of the information need; accessing information; evaluating information and sources; and adhering to ethical practices in the use of information. The included activities for over 20 instructional sessions support a variety of learning styles. All have been tested successfully with both secondary school and undergraduate college students, including ESL students. Exercises focus on the library catalog, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and advanced searching, and types of information. The organization is flexible allowing you to use the lessons in any order or any grouping that meets the needs of your students and situation. A particularly useful feature for instructors provides the expected or desired answer to discussion questions and exercises within square brackets. The package includes a CD-ROM with all of the activity materials and handouts included in Microsoft Word format for easy customization.
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Each activity has been successfully tested April 16, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hands-On Information Literacy Activities by Information Literacy Librarians Jane Birks and Fiona Hunt (working on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses of Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates) is an impressively presented multimedia resource for high school and college librarians and teachers for instructing children and young adults on how to assess their information ;needs and address them with library catalogues, search engines, databases, search strings, Boolean and other advanced searching techniques. Each activity has been successfully tested with both secondary school and undergraduate college students. Ethical practices in the use of information is provided special attention. Enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM containing all the activity materials and handouts in Microsoft Word for easy customization, Hands-On Information Literacy Activities is an enthusiastically recommended addition to Library Science and Education Department reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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