study and teaching (higher)

Discusses the uses of the liberal arts for the conduct of life, describing the humanities as a source of truth, and urging teachers to provide students with the type of life-changing education reading and thinking about great literature can provide.

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.

Provides information designed to help teachers research, evaluate, and use children's literature in the classroom, from prekindergarten through eighth grade, looks at different genres of children's literature, and presents a cross-curricular perspective on the teaching, planning, and evaluating of literature-based programs.

Offers strategies for implementing technology in information literacy instruction, discussing blog and wiki communities, using web-based video streaming, building a digital library, course management systems, and online assessment.

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

Provides descriptions of a wide variety of art careers, covering architecture, interior and display design, graphic design, publications design and illustration, photography, industrial and fashion design, media, theater and stage design, fine art, crafts, education, museums, galleries, art publications, and art therapy.

Provides classroom-tested projects that are suitable for secondary or college-level students.

Presents a guide to sifting through information in cyberspace and provides instructions on evaluating the quality of Web sites and researching topics on-line.