I have been reading like crazy on info lit instruction. Why?
One because it is fun and stimulating,
Two because I want to refresh my online courses to add a few new things, and
Three because I am working on a new project at one of my jobs to help create small chunkable Moodle info lit modules for campus faculty. So here is what is on my bookshelf in light of these three reasons:
1) Teaching Information Literacy: This is perhaps one of my favorite practical information literacy books to date. It has such clean exercises, that are so easily adaptable to your specific population and format. Some of the in-person exercises I tweak heavily and am using this quarter teaching my Eastbay students. One is coming due this week, so we will see how the lesson worked out....

I personally think there are three main areas where in-person teaching sessions can fail:
- You built an inappropriate unit (either it was for the wrong audience or the directions were just unclear)
- A random technology fail (the server is down, the database subscriptions stopped working, the keyboard froze....)
- A classroom management issue (a student that won't stop talking- to you or their friend, a lack of energy in the class, or no participation at all)
2) A guide to teaching information literacy: 101 practical tipsThis next book gives major tips on three core areas of instruction: planning, delivery and activities. What I was most focused on in this book was the #3 above. Lots of practical advice in the categories of interruptions, managing groups, room layout, timing, and managing sessions. The entries are short and sweet for quick perusal.
3) The Extreme Searchers Internet HandbookThis book includes a lot of lists of resources (different government sites, directories, etc.). If you have a really well done academic library site, I think a lot of these would (should) be included already within the web links page (example of a well done version at the SRJC Library
HERE). The one very useful tool in this book is the reminder of very specific web search tools for specific search engines, such as wildcards, url searching, title searching and related pages. I include boolean searching within the web finding exercise, but I think my students would really appreciate an expanded set of tools (it is always one of the favorite units).
4) I found it on the Internet: coming of age onlineThis book talks a lot about the perspective of the the developing teen, and trying to show how their reality of growing up with such an infusion of technology with blurred lines on sharing/privacy/and an availability of information effects them as users (and us as educators). Some of this book (which I did not fully read) was fascinating and a good reminder of where our students at the junior college/4 year level are coming from. I did think some of the text was much more geared towards a younger group of students then college level, but it does give an overall perspective on the upcoming generations we serve.

(shall I dare say that some of these books are overdue. I mean, you just can't rush info lit curriculum design...yikes...I am returning them this week....)
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