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Library & Information Literacy Instruction (LILI)

Administrative Resources

InStats (more info)

The LILI Office asks all instruction librarians to record instructional activities using InStats.

InStats is a database to enter, store, and archive library instruction statistics. Any time instruction librarians teach a session (course related, tour, individual consultation, workshop, etc.) or provide instructional materials (library course page, Web site, handouts, etc.) they should fill out the form.



Room Calendars (more info)

Many room options are available to schedule instruction sessions. Most of the larger campus libraries allow any campus library staff to use their rooms for instructional purposes. Check with the library's Instruction Coordinator to explore scheduling options. For information concerning a particular room, please contact the individual library directly.

College Library
Eliot Finkelstein: 265-3376 / efinkelstein@library.wisc.edu
Health Science Library
Chris Hooper-Lane: 263-9324 / chooper@library.wisc.edu

Use WiscCal via the MyUW portal to view the following Health Science Library Rooms:

Resource names:

  • HSL Ebling Conference Room
  • HSL Consultation Room 2339
  • HSL Ebling Lib Classroom 3268
  • HSL Ebling Library Room 2320
Memorial Library
Steven Baumgart: 262-3647 / sbaumgart@library.wisc.edu

Use WiscCal via the MyUW portal to view the following Memorial Library Rooms:

  • MEML Memorial Lib Room 312D
  • MEML Memorial Lib Room 312E
  • MEML Memorial Lib Room 362
  • MEML Memorial Lib Room 364
  • MEML Memorial Lib Room 460
  • MEML Memorial Lib Room M306B
Steenbock Library
Barbara Lazewski: 263-3899 / blazewski@library.wisc.edu

Use WiscCal via the MyUW portal to view the following Steenbock Library Rooms:

  • STEE Steenbock Room 105
  • STEE Steenbock Room 240
  • STEE Steenbock Room 340
  • STEE Steenbock Teaching Annex
Wendt Library
Diana Wheeler: 265-9801 / dwheeler@engr.wisc.edu

Use WiscCal via the MyUW portal to view the following Wendt Library Rooms:

  • ENGR Wendt Room 108
  • ENGR Wendt Room 301
  • ENGR Wendt Room 306
  • ENGR Wendt Room 329
General Assignment Classrooms

In some cases you will provide instruction in a course's normally scheduled classroom instead of in a library instruction lab. To determine what equipment is available in general education classrooms and find the contact information for those rooms' support staff, consult this chart: http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/support/Classrooms/Attributes.htm

It's a good practice to discuss your equipment needs and options with the course instructor if you are going to be teaching in their classroom.

Equipment

If you need to provide instructional services in a room that has no laptop or projector, you can check out this equipment from the Library Technology Group (LTG). LTG is located in Memorial Library and may be reached at 262-8880. You will want to make reservations in advance of your instruction session.

Specific campus libraries may also have equipment that can be used for remote teaching. For more information contact your Instruction Coordinator or the LILI Office.



Campus-Wide Course & Workshop Materials (more info)

The following course and workshop materials developed by campus instruction-related working groups are used in several campus libraries. Chairs of each working group submit materials at the beginning of the semester to be posted.


Publicity Handouts and Fliers
Ask A Librarian Ask a Librarian (buff)
Ask a Librarian 2 (buff)
Ask a Librarian 3
General Workshop Announcement (Save Time...) Black & white
Colored (purple)
Indvidual Workshop Annoucement Templates Template 1
Template 2
Template 3
Template 4
Template 5
Template 6
Everything You Need to Know about Libraries (cherry)
UW-Madison Libraries: What You Really Need to Know (gold)
Wisconsin Welcome Week Tours Flier (purple)
Workshop Evaluation Form (white)
LILI Brochure (Text-Only Version)


Short Scripts (10 minutes or less)
Ask A Librarian Services Full Text
Outline
EndNote Outline
RefWorks Outline
Zotero Outline


Course/Workshop-Specific Materials
Communications Requirement A Script || Slides || Worksheet
Teaching Tips
CLUE Handout (turquoise)
English 100 Tutorials:
Daedalus || Journal of Popular Culture
Comm A Handouts Characteristics of Popular and Scholarly Articles (yellow)
Evaluation Form (white)
EndNote Workshop EndNote Web 10 min. demo script
EndNote Web Handout
Google for Academic Research Script || Google Books || Google Operators
Google Patents || Google Scholar || Flyer
Evaluating Websites
Grants Information Center Workshops
Center Information
"MadCat: Find Books and More For Your Research" Workshop Script || Worksheet (double-sided, blue)
Slides || Library Express Brochure (white)
"Managing Your Citations with RefWorks" Workshop Scripts and Handouts
"This Time It's Personal: Library Personalization Tools" Workshop Script || Intro || Metalib
Alerts || RefWorks || Help
Worksheet || Search Alert
"UW-Madison Libraries: What You Really Need to Know" Workshop Script
Did you know? (blue)
Resources (green)



LILI Space (more info)

A My WebSpace group account provides a working space for instruction-related working groups to develop and work on projects, for individual instruction librarians to collaborate on projects, and for campus instruction librarians to share instruction-related articles, papers, etc. Please note that the full text of the shared articles will be cleared out annually to comply with copyright laws.

Use your own Net ID and password to log into My WebSpace. A library staff member can gain access to LILI Space by subscribing to the infolit-l email list. If LILI Space does not appear under the "Bookmarks" or "Group Directories" section, contact your Instruction Coordinator.

LILI Groups

Interest Groups (more info)

LILI Forum

LILI Forum is a brownbag held on the first Wednesday of the month, 12-1pm, for all campus librarians with interest in instruction. The typical format of the brownbag consists of announcements from the campus LILI Program coordinator, campus instruction-related working groups, and campus libraries with news relevant to instruction followed by a program or discussion on instruction issues. Two co-chairs plan and organize the forum in coordination with the LILI Program coordinator. The LILI Instruction Coordinators Planning Group often suggests topics.

The current co-chairs are Pamela O'Donnell (podonnell@library.wisc.edu) and Karen Dunn (kdunn@library.wisc.edu).

An archive of agendas and minutes from past LILI Forums can be found on the Professional Development page of this web site.


IT Interest Group

The LILI Instruction Coordinators Planning Group has created an IT Interest Group that will enable LILI librarians to discuss the potential application of new instructional technologies to LILI. To learn more about what this group discusses visit their LILI IT Interest Group Blog.

If you are interested in participating in these discussions contact Tom Durkin (tdurkin@library.wisc.edu).



Planning and Working Groups (more info)

* Denotes group chair/facilitator

Alerts & RSS Feeds Working Group
Email: alerts-l
Description: Develops and maintains the RSS and Alerts guides on the Library Web site.
Members: Barbara Lazewski*, Tom Durkin, Amy Kindschi, Erika Sevetson, Emily Wixson
Documents: Charge | Activity Report


Citation Management Working Group
Email: citewog-l
Description: Campus support for RefWorks and EndNote, resource for citation managers on campus.
Members: Emily Wixson*, Rebecca Payne, Bev Phillips, Pamela O'Donnell, Anne Rauh, Michael Venner, Ron Wiecki
Advisors: Sue Dentinger (LTG), Tom Durkin (Social Sciences), Jim Jonas (CIMC), Tony Krier (Memorial - EndNote), Albert Quattrucci (Memorial - Zotero)
Documents: Charge | Activity Report 1 | Activity Report 2


CLUE Working Group
Email: individual
Description: Group that develops, maintains, and edits the CLUE tutorial.
Members: Steve Frye*, Sarah McDaniel*, Trisha Prosise
Documents: Charge


Communication-A Library Session Planning Group
Email: comcore-l
Description: Plans and develops Communication A requirement library session.
Members: Eliot Finkelstein*, Jane Bannerman, Steve Baumgart, Barbara Lazewski, Sarah McDaniel, Carrie Nelson, Trisha Prosise, Sheila Stoeckel, Diana Wheeler
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Coordinators Planning Group
Email: bigcoord-l
Description: Assists the Campus LILI Coordinator with planning and developing the campus LILI program.
Members: Sarah McDaniel*, Steve Baumgart, Eliot Finkelstein, Steve Frye, Chris Hooper-Lane, Barbara Lazewski, Jim Jonas, Sheila Stoeckel, Diana Wheeler, Emily Wixson, Jenny Zook
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Customization Workshop Working Group
Email: customwog-l
Description: Develops campus workshops on personalizing library resources.
Members: Steve Baumgart*, Beverly Phillips, Lia Vellardita
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Google Workshop Planning Group
Email: goowog-l
Description: Develops campus workshops on using Google.
Members: Pamela O'Donnell*, Barbara Lazewski, Albert Quattrucci, Diana Wheeler
Documents: charge | Activity Report


InStats Working Group
Email: instats-l
Description: Develops and maintains the campus LILI online stats form.
Members: Chris Hooper-Lane*, Allan Barclay, Sharon Drugan, Rebecca Holz, Trisha Prosise, Sheila Stoeckel
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Instructional Design Working Group
Email: idwog-l
Web Site: Click Here
Description: Develops and maintains resources on the Research Tips & Tricks page of the Library Web site. Advises other library groups regarding the development of online instructional resources.
Members: Steve Frye*, Sheila Stoeckel*, Ian Benton, Nikki Busch, Karen Dunn, Chris Hooper-Lane, Jim Jonas, Trisha Prosise, Lia Vellardita
Documents: charge| Activity Report


Learning Assessment Working Group
Email: assessment-l
Wiki: Click Here
Description: Develops in-class learning assessment resources and shares information on learning assessment for campus LILI librarians.
Members: Steve Baumgart*, Barbara Lazewski, Sarah McDaniel, Rebecca Payne, Sheila Stoeckel, Diana Wheeler, Jenny Zook
Documents: charge| Activity Report


UW-Madison Libraries: What You Really Need to Know Workshop Planning Group
Email: nutwog-l
Description: Develops campus workshop formerly known as "Libraries in a Nutshell." (charge | Activity Report)
Members: Eliot Finkelstein*, Anne Glorioso, Trisha Prosise, Albert Quattrucci, Emily Wixson, Jenny Zook
Documents: charge | Activity Report


MadCat Workshop Working Group
Email: madwog-l
Description: Develops campus workshops on MadCat.
Members: Eliot Finkelstein*, Todd Bruns, Karen Dunn, Diana Wheeler
Documents: charge| Activity Report


Standard Point of Use Working Group
Email: spou-l
Description: Creates, organizes, and maintains database help guides.
Members: Amy Kindschi*, Barbara Lazewski, Carrie Nelson, Rebecca Payne, Emily Wixson
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Subject Integration Working Group
Email: subject-l
Wiki: Click Here
Description: Identifies approaches for integration of information literacy into subject curricula.
Members: Sarah McDaniel*, Steve Baumgart, Jim Jonas, Chris Hooper-Lane, Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Diana Wheeler
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Teacher Orientation/Training & Instructional Partnerships Working Group
Email: topwog-l
Description: Develops and implements a campus-wide LILI orientation and training program for campus library instructors that will supplement library-specific LILI orientation and training programs.
Members: Rebecca Payne*, Steve Baumgart, Karen Dunn, Stephen Johnson, Carrie Nelson, Sheila Stoeckel
Documents: charge| Activity Report


Workshop Working Group
Email: workwog-l
Description: Plans and develops the campus LILI Drop-in Workshop program.
Members: Sarah McDaniel*, Steve Baumgart, Eliot Finkelstein, Chris Hooper-Lane, Barbara Lazewski, Pamela O'Donnell, Jim Jonas, Sheila Stoeckel, Diana Wheeler, Emily Wixson
Documents: charge | Activity Report


Keeping Current

Notes for the UW Info Lit Community (Sarah's blog)

ILI-L Messages

Instruction-related e-mail lists (more info)

UW-Madison Libraries
  • Infolit-l
    Infolit-l is a list for sharing information among library staff involved in library and information literacy instruction on campus. To subscribe, contact your Instruction Coordinator or LILI Office.
  • Libraries-l
    Libraries-l is a list for sharing information with all library staff across campus. All staff are added to the list upon hire.
  • Campus Working Groups
    Each instruction-related campus working group and/or committee has an e-mail list. The list of working groups with e-mail is listed on the LILI Staff Web site. If interested in membership on a group and subscription to the e-mail list, contact the LILI Office.
State
  • luert@titan.wils.wisc.edu
    The Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Library User Education Round Table (LUERT) has a list for members to share information with one another. To subscribe, select membership to LUERT when paying for annual membership to WLA.
National
  • Ili-l@ala.org
    Ili-l is a list of the ALA/ACRL Instruction Section for sharing information among instruction librarians across the country. To subscribe, visit: http://lists.ala.org/wws/info/ili-l.


Office Booklist (more info)

Books available for reference in 443D Memorial Library are divided into the following categories:

ASSESSMENT

Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, Second Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Uses numerous case studies and examples to detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects.

Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler. Assessing Student Learning Outcomes for Information Literacy Instruction in Academic Institutions. Chicago: Association of College and Resource Libraries, 2003.

Provides librarians the tools needed to create baseline data that will support the merits of information literacy programs in their institutions. Methods and skills that have been used to carry out effective assessment programs are illustrated including what is to be learned from the program, establishing learning outcomes, data analysis, consideration of costs, and involvement of faculty.

Baker, Betsy, and Mary Ellen Litzinger. The Evolving Educational Mission of the Library. Chicago: ACRL, 1992.

Focuses on user education as information literacy and takes a look at who the users of the future will be as well as the future of bibliographic instruction.

Bruce, Christine. The Seven Faces of Information Literacy. Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1997.

A doctoral study that examines the varying experience of information literacy amongst higher educators and proposes a relational model of information literacy as an alternative to the behavioral model that dominates information literacy education and research.

College Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks. Primary Reseach Group, Inc., 2008.

Tables showing research results from studies on various components of information literacy programs.

Gabelnic, Faith, et al. Learning Communities: Creating Connections among Students, Faculty, and Disciplines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 1990.

Volume places learning communities within the framework of twentieth-century educational theory and reform providing comprehensive, detailed descriptions of how to design, maintain, and evaluate learning communities and include firsthand accounts from students and faculty in learning communities across the nation.

Gibson, Craig. Student Engagement and Information Literacy. Chicago: Association of College and Resource Libraries, 2006.

Offers a variety of perspectives on the important issues of student engagement and how this dimension of learning connects with information literacy.

Horton, William. Designing and Writing Online Documentation, Second Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1994.

The #1 guide to creating effective online documentation reflecting latest technological advances, including multimedia.

Kelly, Maurie Caitlin, & Andrea Cross. Making the Grade: Academic Libraries and Student Success. Chicago: Association of College and Resource Libraries, 2002.

As the success and retention of students has grown in importance, so have the responsibilities of many academic libraries in playing a more active role in this retention. This book endeavors to provide insight into these new demands and responsibilities, while providing practical examples of programs, policies, and projects.

LaGuardia, Cheryl, and Chrisine K. Oka. Becoming a Library Teacher. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2000.

Personal experiences of library teachers to aid others committed to library instruction.

Raish, Martin H. Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too: Essays on Academic Librarianship. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003.

Will the library of the future be “bookless”? Will reference librarians disappear? Will the amount of information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of librarians in this book, asked to write about whatever was on their minds about today’s academic libraries and librarians.

Students in the Balance: General Education in the Research University. Pennsylvania State UP, 2002.

The product of conversations representing ten research universities regarding students’ understanding of and attitudes about General Education.

CURRICULUM MAPPING

Barclay, Donald. Teaching Electronic Information Literacy, a How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Intended for working librarians, teachers, and trainers who are already familiar with accessing and using electronic information resources, this book aims to strike a balance between the specific and the general in a volatile information world.

Brottman, May and Mary Loe. The LIRT Library Instruction Handbook. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited , Inc., 1990.

Provides practical, step-by-step advice to enable institutions to develop programs based on sound theory and to enable practicing instruction librarians to evaluate and improve their own programs.

Brown, George, et al. Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education. London: Rutledge, 1997.

This book will become a springboard for action, discussion and even more active learning with guidelines, suggestions, examples of practice, and activities.

Burbules, Nicholas C., and Thomas A. Callister, Jr. Watch IT: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies for Education. Westview Press, 2000.

This book takes a close look at the complex and contradictory consequences of new technologies in the classroom. In a series of interrelated essays, the authors explore such issues as access, credibility, new approaches to reading and writing, the glut of information, privacy, censorship, commercialization, and online community.

Burkhardt, Joanna M., et al. Teaching Information Literacy: 35 Practical Standards=based Exercises for College Students. Chicago, American Library Association, 2003.

Provides hands-on tools for reference and instruction librarians at colleges and community colleges as well as for others appointed to teach students how to conduct research.

Cyrs, Thomas E. Essential Skills for College Teaching: An Instructional Systems Approach, Third Edition. Las Cruces: New Mexico State UP, 1994.

Practical suggestions on how to design more effective and exciting lectures and engage your students in their own learning. Reduce student note copying with appropriate study guides.

Cyrs, Thomas E. and Eugenia D. Conway. Teaching at a Distance with the Merging Technologies: An Instructional Systems Approach. New Mexico State UP, 1997.

Designed to improve teaching at a distance, this book includes strategies and visualizations to achieve its goal.

Dupuis, Elizabeth A. Developing Web-Based Instruction: Planning, Designing, Managing, and Evaluating For Results. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Examines the entire process of creating Web-based library instruction.

Fink, Deborah. Process and Politics in Library Research: A Model for Course Design. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.

This book presents the facets of bibliographic instruction in new light. Rather than the library, the information learning society is the context for the research process. Focuses on fresh approaches and active learning.

Jacobson, Trudi E. and Lijuan Xu. Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2004.

A manual for instruction librarians with proven techniques for designing engaging courses to keep students motivated and interested. Contains easy-to-read charts, tables, references, and sample sheets, as well as practical tips from successful instruction librarians.

Mager, Robert F. Preparing Instructional Objectives. Palo Alto, CA: Fearon Publishers, 1962.

A book for teachers and student teachers...for anyone interested in transmitting skills and knowledge to others.

Mellon, Constance A. Bibliographic Instruction, The Second Generation. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1987.

Brings together the writings of many individuals whose ideas were instrumental in transforming user instruction from a grassroots movement to an established part of academic librarianship.

Ragains, Patrick. Information Literacy Instruction that Works: A Guide to Teaching By Discipline and Student Population. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006.

Over twenty library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today's unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. You will also find proven approaches to teaching students in the most popular programs of study English Literature, Art and Art History, Film Studies, History, Psychology, Science, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Hospitality, and International Marketing.

Reichel, Mary, and Mary Ann Ramey. Conceptual Frameworks for Bibliographic Education: Theory into Practice. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1987.

Model presentations to be used as guides for organizing bibliographic instruction sessions that are appropriate to the individual library, the librarian presenting the material, and the students and their library needs.

Shonrock, Diana D. Evaluating Library Instruction: Sample Questions, Forms, and Strategies for Practical Use. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.

Easy-to-use guide offers a wealth of materials to assist you in planning and creating evaluation instruments for your library instruction program.

Stiehl, Ruth, and Les Lewchuk. The Mapping Primer: Tools For Reconstructing the College Curriculum. The Learning Organization, 2005.

Curriculum maps from Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon at various stages in development. Can be used to help refocus curriculums on learning outcomes and outcomes assessment.

Wheeler, Helen Rippier. The Bibliographic Instruction-Course Handbook. Metuchen. NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1988.

A skills and concepts approach to the undergraduate, research methodology, credit course—for college and university personnel.

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

Boyer, Ernest L. College: The Undergraduate Experience in America. New York: Perennial Library, 1987.

An indispensable book for students and their parents in choosing a college and an invaluable tool for educators.

Conley, David T. College Knowledge: What it Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

A comprehensive and detailed overview on how to improve secondary school preparation and success for college. Research based insights, practices, and policies for all audiences trying to betterconnect secondary schools and colleges.

Hardsesty, Larry. The Role of the Library in the First College Year. University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

This monograph reviews the present state of practice in integrating library instruction and first-year college programs in order to more effective educate students and prepare them for the realities of the 21st century.

Lucas, Stephen E. The Art of Public Speaking, Annotated Instructor’s Edition, Eighth Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, Inc., 2004.

Text used in Comm Arts 100 classes written by UW-Madison’s own Stephan E. Lucas.

Nathan, Rebekah. My Freshmen Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.

A unique book based on the experiences and interactions of a college professor who fully immersed herself in freshmen life to understand the changing ways of college students.

Watts, Margit Misangyi. College: We Make the Road by Walking. Columbus, OH: Prentice Hall, 2003.

An innovative text that focuses on “why” students benefit from a college experience rather than the of skill development.

INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMS

Curzon, Susan Carol, and Lynn D. Lampert. Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program. New York: Neal Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2007.

Collection of articles that cover the full spectrum of information literacy issues, including the roles of school libraries and public libraries, which have no usually been discussed in other works to date.

Breivik, Patricia Senn, and E. Gordon Gee. Information Literacy: Revolution in the Library. New York: ACE/Macmillan, 1989.

In this book, a library director and a university president take a close, critical look at the potential of academic libraries as key campus resources in the Information Age.

Breivik, Patricia Senn, and Robert Wedgeworth. Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1988.

Libraries play an integral part of the university as long as they are not ignored. Essays from a symposium dealing with how quality is to be judged and what role the library plays in the level of excellence of the university.

Elmborg, James K., & Sheril Hook. Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration. Chicago: Association of College and Resource Libraries, 2005.

Sometimes the participants in collaborations encounter difficulties internally as they attempt to understand each other and learn to work together. All these difficulties are reflected in this collection.

Lankshear, Colin, and Peter L. McLaren. Critical Literacy: politics, praxis, and the postmodern. State University of New York Press, 1993.

A book that confronts the challenge of literacy in ways that take into account some of the mostdemanding and urgent debates of our time. It essentially redefines the project of literacy by bringing to light new possibilities for liberation struggles both in and outside of schools.

Raspa, Dick, and Dane Ward. The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. Chicago: ACRL, 2000.

A book about collaboration between librarians and faculty, how it exists now, and how it could exist in the future.

RESEARCH

Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research, Second Ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

The practical guide to mastering the art of research from the publishers of The Chicago Manual of Style. This new edition will continue to help thousands of students and writers plan, carry out, and report on research to produce effective term papers, dissertations, articles, or books—in any field, at any level.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

This handbook treats every aspect of research writing, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper.

Katz, William A. Introduction to Reference Work Volume 1: Basic Information Sources, Sixth Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1992.

Explains the basic reference process and sources of information in today’s libraries. Also encompasses the latest in networks, microcomputers, machine readable databases, and other new technologies that affect the ways reference services are provided.

Meinbach, Anita Meyer and Liz Christman Rothlen. Unlocking the Secrets of Research. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986.

Worksheets and resources to foster students’ research skills and encourage students to use the higher order thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Mittell, Jason, et al. The Communication Arts Guide to the Electronic Library, Second Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998.

Offers strategies and references for researching that will not change much over time.

Quaratiello, Arlene Rodda. The College Student’s Research Companion. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1997.

A comprehensive guide to research for college students from an author who found the research experience much too difficult at times.
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