Library Instruction User Services Library and Information Science

This category is for sites that discuss the provision of instructional services to the users of physical and virtual libraries. Sites may include tutorials, virtual tours, instruction programs, teaching tips and techniques, handouts, teaching styles and sample lesson plans.

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• California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction North Depository - Provides information literacy materials including catalog guides, subject guides, syllabi, tutorials, and tours.
  
• Remember the Gin and Tonic! Using Alcohol to Teach Boolean Searching - Humorous article describes how drink mixing can be used as an analogy for Boolean search construction when teaching students.
  
• Measuring Up? Assessment and Library Instruction - Partially annotated bibliography of sources relating to bibliographic instruction and assessment.
  
• LibraryInstruction.Com - Includes library instruction articles and lesson plans. Encourages submissions from teachers and librarians.
  
• Library Instruction Tutorials - A guide to evaluating web sites for use in a library and links to tutorials.
  
• Library Instruction Resources - Brief list of web resources relating to bibliographic instruction.
  
• The Infography about Library Instruction - Sources recommended by a librarian whose research specialty is library instruction.
  
• LIRT Research Committee -- Library Instruction Teaching Tips - Provides access to a series of brief brochures on teaching issues like classroom management and presentation skills. Each brochure includes a bibliography. Developed by the Library Instruction Round Table of the American Library Association.
  
• Collaboration Between the Library and Business Faculty - Article discusses the experiences of a business librarian and business faculty member who team-taught a course in business research. It covers some of the content and applications of that material in developing students' knowledge and skills in Informati
  
• Resources for Designing Library Electronic Classrooms - Bibliography of resources useful in creating library instruction spaces.
  
• Round Table on User Education - IFLA group dedicated to international library instruction and information literacy education.
  
• LOEX Clearinghouse - National organization advocating library user education issues. Includes information on related conferences and workshops, the LOEX newsletter, and best practices in bibliographic instruction.
  
• Lessons Learned: Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation - Strategies and resources for teaching students to evaluate Web resources are described here.
  
• LIRT - Interest group of the American Library Association provides resources and articles relating to library user education and information literacy.
  
• Library Instruction - Provides a brief literature review highlighting good practice in bibliographic instruction.
  
• OBE and Library Instruction - Examines the concept of outcome-based education as it relates to library instruction.
  
• Personalization Tools for Active Learning in Digital Libraries - Article analyzing the use of active learning in libraries as it relates in media tools. [PDF]
  
• Understanding Call Numbers - Guide to help students understand how call numbers work.
  
• Find it Fast: Enticing Faculty to Library Instruction Workshops - Article which looks at ways librarians can get faculty to library use workshops.
  
• Wikipedia - Library Instruction - Encyclopedia article on the library instruction movement. Includes information on history and leaders.
  
  

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