Teaching Information Literacy: 50 Standards-Based Exercises for College Students. This item is unavailable.Teaching Information Literacy: 50 Standards-Based Exercises for College Students

Updated to today's ever-expanding world of electronic information, Teaching Information Literacy, Second Edition, is the best single resource for fundamental information literacy instruction. Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating the exercies in the book. *Address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education *Promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource based learning *Are ready for use by reference and instruction librarians at colleges and community colleges, as well as others responsible for teaching students how to conduct research These 50 lessons can be used as a full semester course or as a single focused seminar or workshop, and show how to engage with electronic and print information resources alike.

Joanna M. Burkhardt is professor and head librarian at the University of Rhode Island (URI) branch libraries in Providence and Narragansett. She coordinates the branches information literacy program and teaches sections of URI s course in information literacy. She is also an active member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Rhode Island Library Association.



Mary C. MacDonald is an associate professor and Head of Instructional Services in the library at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. She teaches sections of URI's course in information literacy. She is also active in the Rhode Island Library Association and a faculty member of the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy's Immersion Program.


Andrée J. Rathemacher is an associate professor in the technical services department of the library at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, where she is Head of Acquisitions. She is the library liaison and subject selector for business, economics, and labor relations and has taught in the library s information literacy program. She is a co-author with Burkhardt and MacDonald of Creating a Comprehensive Information Literacy Plan: A How-to-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM for Librarians and a contributor to Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion, edited by Darby Orcutt.