The effectiveness of simultaneous and delayed video modeling when used by three middle-school students with moderate intellectual disabilities was examined. Alternating between modeling systems, students were taught to use the public library computer to locate specific book call numbers and use the Dewey Decimal Classification System to locate…

Intended for librarians and teachers, this guide describes a library instruction program for teaching subject analysis to middle and high school students. The program is comprised of three units: subject analysis, classification scheme construction, and subject headings. Background material for the librarian, exercises for students, and answers to…

The second of three library skills modules for college students, this unit explains the card catalog, call numbers, filing rules, types of catalog cards and the information they relate, and Dewey and Library of Congress classification systems. The library location charts and how they are to be used are also discussed. Included with the unit are…

The exercises in this workbook are designed to be used with the pamphlets and audiotapes from Units II and III of the library skills modules for college students. Questions in these exercises are similar to those on the tests for the modules. Exercises 1 through 8 coordinate with Unit II: Card Catalog; exercises 9 through 11 relate to Unit III:…

A theoretical scheme classifies user behavior into three domains of library activity--affective, cognitive, and psychomotor--and three levels of learning--orientation, interaction, and internalization. Examples of library skills and errors in each of the nine major classes are given, and applications to library instruction are suggested.…

The University of Illinois Undergraduate Library offers a unique bibliographic instruction (BI) program for students enrolled in freshman rhetoric, English, or English as a second language courses. It consists of 11 different programs and 10 distinct components, each specially developed for a distinct student group. Although each BI program is…

This booklet is the second in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are to learn how to use the Dewey Decimal system and demonstrate this knowledge by completing a series of exercises and tests.…

The library media program presented in this booklet is intended to equip students and interested users of the card catalog with basic library skills. It has been designed to assist classroom teachers and library media specialists in teaching and disseminating information on the card catalog using Dewey Decimal skill activities. Contents of the…

This manual is the textbook for a two-unit course for upper division students at a middle-sized university academic research library, the University of California Santa Barbara Library. The book introduces search strategy for finding information for a term paper. After discussing factual information about library collections, classification, card…

Intended to familiarize students with the Melville Library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and provide guidelines for conducting research in American politics, this workbook is divided into 10 chapters: (1) The Author-Title Catalog; (2) How To Find Books on Your Topic Using the Subject Catalog; (3) General Periodical Literature;…

Three articles describe methods for teaching library skills. The first presents a song used to teach students the Dewey Decimal system; the second describes a reading program incorporating Halloween and foreign countries; and the third includes short poems designed to teach students to care for library books properly. (CLB)

Discusses how to help students apply thinking skills to library research and provides examples of techniques for teaching comparing and contrasting, sequencing, classifying, cause and effect, problem solving, and decision making. Examples were effective with middle schoolers but could also be adapted for high school or older elementary school…

Instructional materials for teaching junior high school students about the Dewey decimal classification system for books and about library catalog cards are presented in this unit from the Greenfield Express Management System (GEMS) program, a California Demonstration Program in Reading. A project overview form from the California Centers for…

Presents a model for teaching interdisciplinary research skills that can be applied to any two or more humanities or social science disciplines. Highlights include the definition and organization of the discipline, organization or printed reference tools, user definition of information needs, classification systems and subject headings, and online…

The contents of this document include the course syllabus, a student information sheet, college library floor plans, and the units of instruction for Library Research Skills (LIB 101), a course taught at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York. The course syllabus lists subjects to be covered and the corresponding time frame for…