What the Public Children's Librarian Needs to Know about Locational Skills Instruction in Elementary Schools.

Eaton, Gale

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Publication Date: 1989

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What the Public Children's Librarian Needs to Know about Locational Skills Instruction in Elementary Schools.

Eaton, Gale

Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, v2 n4 p357-66 Sum 1989

Reviews curriculum guides and the research literature to examine locational skills instruction in elementary schools and the transferability of skills to the public library. Factors that may limit instructional effectiveness are identified and the need for public children's librarians to have realistic expectations of children's abilities to locate books is discussed. (35 references) (CLB)

Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Guidelines, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction, Library Research, Library Skills, Public Libraries, School Libraries

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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