Engaging First-Year Students in Meaningful Library Research. A Practical Guide for Teaching Faculty

✍ Scribed by Molly Flaspohler (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Aimed at teaching professionals working with first-year students at institutions of higher learning, this book provides practical advice and specific strategies for integrating contemporary information literacy competencies into courses intended for novice researchers. The book has two main goals - to discuss the necessity and value of incorporating information literacy into first-year curricula; and to provide a variety of practical, targeted strategies for doing so. The author will introduce and encourage teaching that follows a process-driven, constructivist framework as a way of engaging first-year students in library work that is interesting, meaningful and disciplinarily relevant.

• Provides helpful advice and guidance for seamlessly integrating library research competencies into first-year courses
• Offers practical models and real life examples of successful student-centered, course-based library research assignments
• Is written by an academic librarian with nearly 20 years of experience in the field

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of figures and table, Page ix
Foreword, Pages xi-xiv
About the author, Pages xv-xvii
Introduction, Pages 1-11
1 - The Millennials go to the library: or do they?, Pages 13-42
2 - Information literacy in the context of the first year, Pages 43-98
3 - Pragmatic pedagogical approaches, Pages 99-158
Appendix: resources about integrating information literacy in the undergraduate classroom, Pages 159-162
References, Pages 163-176
Index, Pages 177-180