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.
Explains the importance of being well informed as a community leader, and provides advice on understanding mass media and journalism, recognizing reliable and unreliable sources, and using libraries, the Internet, and other resources.
"This complete guide provides librarians and students at every level of experience with proven strategies and tools for efficient online searching, covering commonly available subject databases and principles of effective searching"--.
Boolean logic for computer users and beginning online searchers
Houghton, Janaye Matteson
1999
A guide to using the Internet to conduct on-line searches that includes information on using Boolean logic, finding the right search terms, and developing a searching strategy.
Explains the steps and approaches to information literacy, discussing how students can learn to access, evaluate, organize, and use information in the classroom.
