Describes programs at the Toronto Public Library that teach Internet skills to adult learners, including English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes and undereducated adults. Highlights include a sample lesson plan; experiences with adult-literacy classes; expanding Internet training; and Web sites for ESL and adult-literacy classes. (LRW)

Describes a project conducted at the University of Oxford (England) that examined the use of resources by trainee secondary history teachers to determine what history interns are taught about resource use, how approaches to resource use in their lesson planning change, and how libraries can better support trainee history teachers. (LRW)

Educational technology tends to be characterized by a lack of targets; therefore, it is time for education to define its targets in aspiring to the school of the future and consider the option of calling in experts from other fields to help in problem solving. This paper predicts that while classroom design may not change too much, classrooms will…

The training of library staff in interlending and document supply, an area often overlooked in library education and training programs, is explored, beginning with a survey of library associations and a range of schools and departments of library and information science. Responses from approximately 20 associations and 103 schools form a basis for…

The concept of information literacy is explored and the major issues to be developed in its pursuit of technical and further education (TAFE) in Australia are considered. Information literate people are those who have learned how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find it, and how to use it so that others can learn from…