Bibliographies

The following bibliography contains monographs found in the WAW library in two general subject areas.  Primarily, teaching information literacy in higher education.  Secondly, teaching within a variety of course formats.  Book types are toolkits, texts, and compiled case studies.

Connor, E.  (2008). An Introduction to Instructional Services in Academic Libraries.  New York:  Routledge.  [WAWL 025.567 In891]

            A collection of current IL case studies organized by setting:  college libraries, university libraries, and health science university settings.  An ideal resource to illustrate a variety of issues:  ESL students, credit-bearing courses, non-traditional students, distance education students, interdisciplinary inquiry through collaboration, primary documents, hybrid models of library instruction. 

Cox, C. N. & Lindsay, E. Blakesley (2008).  Information literacy instruction handbook.  Chicago:  Association of College and Research Libraries.  [WAWL 028.7071 In434]

            A compilation of practical current articles written by IL instructors and their insight on important:  teacher control and confidence, active learning, motivating students, program management, academic integrity, TEACH act, DCMA, file sharing, instruction design, cross cultural instruction, and assessment. 

Hepworth, M. and Walton, G. (2009).  Teaching information literacy for inquiry-based learning.  Oxford:  Chandos Publishing. [025.04 H412t]

Ready for a theologically rich approach to teaching information literacy?  Thick heavy theology of:  why IL; pedagogy;  evaluating resources; creating learning environments; choosing assessments; E-learning to say the least.  Tables and diagrams help aid the absorption of this material.

Hunt, F. (2008).  More hands-on information literacy activities.  New York:  Neal-Schuman Publisher, Inc.  [WAWL 028.7 H911m]

            20 classroom IL activities for the secondary and undergraduate classroom.  Material suitable to mainstream and ESL classrooms.  Includes a CD containing activities to access and evaluate information, providing ethical citations, and general activities.

McDevitt, T. R. ( 2011).   Let the games begin:  engaging students with field-tested interactive information literacy instruction.  New York:  Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.  [WAWL 028.7 L567]

60 IL games organized in the following topics:  Icebreakers;  games to energize and engage in one-shot library orientation sessions; organization of information sources games; research races and processes games; online search techniques games; evaluating the quality and authority of information resources games;  bibliographic citation games;  plagiarism awareness and prevention games; finding, identifying, and discovering the significance of primary sources games; games to assess and wrap up information literacy instruction sessions; library orientation session techniques help students navigate new territory.

Ryan, J. and Capra, S. (2001).  Information literacy toolkit:  grades 7 and up.  Chicago:  American Library Association.  [WAWL 372.6  R952in ]

            A useful resource of the six stages of the IL program: defining, locating, selecting/analyzing, organizing/synthesizing/ creating/presenting, and evaluating.  Charts break these down into competencies in which to practice.  This resource provides numerous graphic organizers which may be of assistance in undergraduate coursework in ESL or for remedial exercises.

Simonson, M. R. (2009).  Teaching and learning at a distance.  Boston:  Allyn & Bacon/Pearson.  [WAWL 371.35 T2205r4]        

Provides instruction to design an online distance learning course by recognizes classroom culture and instructional designs of courses for learner-directed instruction.  Identifies course design differences between asynchronous and synchronous courses.  Addresses instructional methods student and teacher roles to creative a productive learning community.  Introduces graphic design principles.  Addresses new technologies which affect assessments. Details ethical concepts such as the DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the TEACH Act.

Veldof, J.  (2006). Creating the one-shot library workshop: a step-by-step guide.  Chicago:  American Library Association. [025.56 V542c]

Completely organized on the instructional systems design (ISD), an application of educational psychology to teaching, development, and delivery.  Provides a guideline to well planned information literacy workshop by thoroughly collaborating with the instructor and assessing each step of the ISD.