library orientation for college students

Provides ways libraries and librarians can create valuable resources to help students transition to college.

Offers teaching strategies for instruction in information literacy, discussing how to select and narrow a topic, developing a thesis statement, Boolean search strategies, organization of knowledge in academic libraries, and other related topics.

The author provides tips and guidance for librarians and teachers to create "edu-tainment" activities to engage students in mandatory library classes and discusses how e-readers can be learning tools, how to create classes online, and ways to utilize pop culture and twenty-first-century technologies.

Offers librarians practical strategies to help them implement the ACRL's standards for information literacy and use those standards to improve students' ability to master information literacy skills.

Presents twenty lessons and hand-on activities--including games, core activities, and assessment and review tools--for teaching information literacy, covering such topics as brainstorming, search strings, citations, publishing cycles, and bibliography, and provides ready-to-print activity materials on CD-ROM.

Contains thirty-five standards-based exercises designed to help college students learn the fundamentals of information literacy.