Topic 5: Information Literacy

(covered only briefly in this class, more extensively in LIBR 250)

Read:

• various articles in the resources section to understand the basic components of an information literacy program in the overall framework of the library media program.

Read both:

• The Section on information literacy in Reinvent Your School's Library...

• Chapters 11 of Loertscher's Taxonomy of the School Library Media Program, 2nd ed.

Topics:

• teaching information literacy as a component part of the curriculum rather than as isolated skills.

• enabling students, after some practice, to develop their own information literacy model. 

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