Beyond Search Technique and Strategy: Helping Students to Be Informed.

Aversa, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ433335

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Publication Date: 1991

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Beyond Search Technique and Strategy: Helping Students to Be Informed.

Aversa, Elizabeth

School Library Media Activities Monthly, v8 n1 p30-31,50 Sep 1991

Suggests ways that the school library media specialist can help students become more successful as users of online information. Four types of barriers to becoming informed are described: (1) indicative access barriers (indexing systems and relevance); (2) physical access to documents identified in a search; (3) linguistic barriers; and (4) barriers in conceptual access. (eight references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Indexing, Learning Resources Centers, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Media Specialists, Online Systems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), School Libraries, Search Strategies, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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