Information literacy : search strategies, tools & resources for high school students and college freshmen

Based on empirical research and written by an expert, this book provides the information a media specialist needs to teach information literacy skills in a meaningful, useful, and strategic manner.

* Draws on learning theories, research, and AASL's position on information literacy using a tried and true approach.
* Considers five types of learning: content understanding, problem-solving, metacognition, collaboration, and communication
* Includes lesson plans, information literacy skills pre-test and post-test, scoring rubrics, and a checklist for evaluating online databases
* Gives expert advice on teaching information literacy and making the transition between high school and college

A copy of this book will assist the media specialist in preparing students for their future, including college research. An annotated bibliography identifies and summarizes major works in the various aspects of information literacy and assessment techniques. Everything you need to know to prepare your students is included in this masterful second edition.

• List of Figures and Tables p. vi
• List of Exercises p. vii
• About the Author p. ix
• Acknowledgments p. x
• Preface to the Second Edition p. xi
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Basic Research Skills p. 1
• Location of informal information sources (unpublished material) p. 5
• Location of formal information sources (published material) p. 5
• Location of information via "filters": Finding a needle in a haystack p. 6
• How people look up information: From hunter-gatherer to sophisticated user p. 7
• Search strategy roadmap p. 7
• Types of questions p. 8
• Characteristics of reference sources p. 9
• Types of reference sources: factual, bibliographic p. 10
• Time of sources p. 11
• Format of sources p. 12
• Same content-different media p. 13
• Level of detail p. 13
• Asking a good question or shaping a topic for your term paper p. 14
• What you have learned p. 15
• Think Guide #1: Topic Narrowing Exercise p. 17
• Chapter 2 Finding Search Words p. 21
• How do we access publications? p. 21
• Getting started: How to be in a driver's seat throughout your research journey p. 25
• Last word p. 28
• Other ways of searching by subject p. 29
• Classification system p. 30
• The power of call numbers p. 31
• What you have learned p. 31
• Think Guide #2: Finding Search Words p. 33
• Chapter 3 Search Strategies p. 37
• Basic operators: AND p. 38
• Basic operators: OR p. 40
• Basic operators: NOT p. 41
• Search strategy p. 42
• Known-item search p. 42
• Building block search p. 42
• Modification: Broadening and narrowing down your search p. 43
• Broadening your search strategy p. 43
• Narrowing your search strategy p. 44
• What you have learned p. 45
• Think Guide #3: Search Strategies p. 47
• Chapter 4 Fact Finding: Words, Concepts, Events, Places p. 49
• Dictionaries and encyclopedias p. 49
• Dictionaries defined p. 50
• Characteristics of dictionaries p. 51
• Encyclopedias defined p. 52
• Main types of encyclopedias p. 53
• How to use encyclopedias p. 54
• Other factual sources p. 54
• Almanacs, yearbooks, handbooks, and directories defined p. 55
• Locating geographic sources p. 56
• What you have learned p. 58
• Chapter 5 Fact Finding: People, Reviews, Criticism p. 59
• Biographical sources p. 60
• Characteristics of biographical sources p. 60
• Organization of biographical sources p. 62
• Living people p. 62
• Deceased people p. 63
• General remarks p. 65
• Why would you look for a review? p. 65
• Literary criticism p. 67
• What you have learned p. 70
• Chapter 6 Finding Works in Library Collections p. 71
• What are library catalogs? p. 71
• Main objectives of library catalogs p. 77
• Search tips-How to avoid "zero results" p. 79
• Beyond your local library catalog p. 81
• Putting library objectives into practice: Examples form Melvyl r and beyond p. 81
• What you have learned p. 81
• Chapter 7 Searching & Evaluating Internet Sources p. 83
• Introduction to the Internet: A brief look p. 84
• How to think critically about Web contents p. 86
• URLs of governmental information sources p. 88
• URLs of education-related sources p. 90
• Internet as a world wide digital collection p. 91
• Search engines p. 92
• Subject directories and meta-search engines p. 93
• Invisible Web search tools p. 94
• What you have learned p. 96
• Think Guide #4: Evaluation of Web Sources p. 99
• Chapter 8 Finding Magazine and Newspaper Articles p. 101
• Introduction to online databases p. 102
• Examples of searching from ProQuest p. 103
• Examples from SIRS p. 107
• Examples of searching from EBSCOhost p. 110
• Examples from JSTOR p. 110
• Examples from ARTstor p. 112
• Indexes to collections of poems, short stories, and songs p. 112
• Indexes to historical newspapers online p. 112
• Putting it all together (especially important for instructors) p. 113
• What you have learned p. 114
• Think Guide #5: Thinking Critically about Articles p. 116
• Chapter 9 Citing in Style and Summarizing p. 117
• Why is citing important? p. 117
• Bibliographic style manuals p. 120
• Case 1 Question #1: how to cite a book? p. 122
• Case 2 Question #2: how to cite an encyclopedia article (printed version) p. 123
• Case 3 Question #3: how to cite an encyclopedia article (Web version) p. 123
• Case 4 Question #4: how to cite a story in a collected work p. 123
• Case 5 Question #5: how to cite an article p. 124
• Case 6 Question #6: Footnotes, endnotes p. 125
• Case 7 Cybercitation templates p. 126
• How to write summaries p. 126
• How to critically summarize (annotate) a book: an example p. 127
• How to critically summarize (annotate) an article: an example p. 128
• What you have learned p. 128
• Think Guide #6: Honor Principle Discussed and Applied p. 130
• Bibliography p. 131
• Appendices p. 138
• A Alignment Between Information Literacy and Technology Standards p. 138
• B Goals and Means to Achieve Them p. 140
• C College Libraries Are Not Just Larger School Libraries p. 145
• D Getting Started with Primary Sources p. 148
• E Science Projects in Context p. 153
• F Collaborative Sample Project in Arts p. 157
• G Sample Projects in Social Sciences p. 161
• H1 The Dewey Decimal Classification p. 163
• H2 Mapping Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) to Library of Congress Classification (LCC) p. 165
• I Pre-Test: A Baseline for Information Literacy Skills p. 166
• J Scoring Rubrics: Examples for Information Literacy Projects p. 167
• K Post-Test: An Example for Take Home Final Quiz p. 169
• L Online Databases: A Checklist for Evaluating Online Services p. 170
• M Self-Reflection: Getting Insight into Students' Level of Awareness p. 176
• N Summarizing Sources p. 178
• O Cited Reference Printed Sources p. 180
• P Evaluation of Sources p. 183
• Index p. 185