NET EFFECTS: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet Edited by Marylaine Block

Chapter Three: How Librarians Are Training Library Users

Teaching Them Indirectly

• Internet Public Library Pathfinders http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/
  Teach them through subjects they already want to find out about, like punk and indie rock, roller coasters, improvisational comedy, etc.

• Multnomah County Library's Social Issues page http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
  By providing annotated links to excellent web sites, organized into megasites, pro, con, and documentary resources, for all the hot topics students predictably write about, the librarians indirectly teach content analysis of web sites.
  
  
  

  Offering Information Literacy Instruction and Online Tutorials for Library and Internet Research

• How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students' Web-based Information Choices http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/pdf/printondemand/informationhabits.pdf

• Information Literacy & You (Penn State University) http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infolit/andyou/infoyou.htm
  Takes students through the whole research process, from defining the topic through citing sources, with a lot of time spent on search techniques and online databases.

• Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-2002-01.shtml
  A digest and bibliography of best practices.

• Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries: Tutorials http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html#tutorials
  Links to especially well-designed internet-delivered tutorials.

• Proof of the Power: Quality Library Media Programs Affect Academic Achievement http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/sep01/lance.htm
  
  
  

  Reaching Them through Their Personal Interests

• Multnomah County Library: Jumpstart Your Family History http://www.multcolib.org/train/jumpstart/family/
  one of several tutorials offered by MCL.

• Researching Your Older Tacoma Home http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/v2/NWRoom/Build.htm
  
  
  

  Letting Them Teach Each Other

• Learning with Webquests http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests.html
  A nice collection of collaborative inquiry-orinted learning experiences on the web, designed by aspiring teachers.

• Peer Information Counseling Program, University of Arizona http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/ust/pichome.htm

• ThinkQuest http://thinkquest.org/
  "ThinkQuest Programs provide a highly motivating opportunity for students and educators to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others."
  
  
  

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