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Combating Fake News in the Digital Age
"This issue of Library Technology Reports is for librarians who serve all age levels and who can help by teaching users both that they need to be aware and how to be aware of fake news. Library instruction in how to avoid fake news, how to identify fake news, and how to stop fake news will be essential."--Abstract.
Teaching Information Literacy
"Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, each of the 50 standards-based exercises in this book address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning."--[back cover]
Teaching Information Literacy Reframed
The six threshold concepts outlined in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are not simply a revision of ACRL's previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. They are instead an altogether new way of looking at information literacy. In this important new book, bestselling author and expert instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language while offering more than 50 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises. Guiding instructors towards helping students cross each threshold, this book discusses the history of the development of the Framework document and briefly deconstructs ...
Media Smart
This book is an invaluable toolkit for navigating the fraught information landscape. From the history of media manipulation to practical applications of media literacy, this book will offer a thorough grounding in teaching students to defend themselves from mis-and dis-information.
Risky Business
Do we add that edgy urban novel to our teen collection? Should we initiate social networking? What about abandoning Dewey for a bookstore arrangement? Change is risky business, but librarians must be prepared to initiate change to best serve teens. YA service innovators Linda W. Braun, Hillias J. Martin, and Connie Urquhart explain how to be smart about taking risks without shying away from them. They offer concrete advice ... -- Publisher's description.
Swimming in the Congo
Follows the childhood experiences of seven-year-old Grace Berggren, the daughter of foreign missionaries living on the banks of the Congo River, and her growing attachment to the African landscape and the people both indigenous and foreign, who surround her.
The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages
This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.
Creating a Comprehensive Information Literacy Plan
Burkhardt (head librarian, University of Rhode Island Providence Campus Library) offers step-by-step guidance for creating and marketing an information literacy plan, for library managers, instructors, and staff who need to decide what to teach, when and how to deliver instruction, and how to market their institution. The CD- ROM compiles worksheets and templates from the book, for easy customizing and reproduction. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The Librarian as Information Consultant
This book "rebrands reference librarianship on the model of a consulting business, providing a renewed vision of the reference desk by treating patrons as clients; spells out the importance of the patron's voice, and details methods for building and maintaining relationships with patrons; [and] identifies the reference librarian's competitive advantage over Web search engines and shows how to capitalize on it"--Page 4 of cover.
The Honey Wall
Nina and Tony are 20 years into a turbulent marriage-like relationship, when a neighbor tells Nina the story of his affair with his brother's wife 40 years before. In intertwining narratives, readers see how the man's troubled life unfolded, and how his story comes to obsess Nina.
