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References and Notes

Current Themes Regarding Library and Information Skills Instruction: Research Supporting and Research Lacking
Michael B. Eisenberg and Michael K. Brown

  1. American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1988), p. 1.
  2. Studies cited in Elaine K. Didier, "An Overview of Research on the Impact of School Library Media Programs on Student Achievement," School Library Media Quarterly 14:34–35 (Fall 1985). Relevant to skills and student achievement are: Charles Richard Gengler, "A Study of Selected Problem Solving Skills Comparing Teacher Instructed Students with Librarian-Teacher Instructed Students" (Ed.D. diss., Univ. of Oregon, 1965); William R. Harmer, "The Effect of a Library Training Program on Summer Loss or Gain in Reading Abilities" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Minnesota, 1959); Ralph D. McMillen, "An Analysis of Library Programs and a Determination of the Education Justification of These Programs in Selected Elementary Schools of Ohio" (Ed.D. diss., Western Reserve Univ., 1965); James Robert Yarling, "Children's Understandings and Use of Selected Library-Related Skills in Two Elementary Schools, One with and One without a Centralized Library" (Ed.D. diss., Ball State Univ., 1968); Clyde LeRoy Greve, "The Relationship of the Availability of Libraries to the Academic Achievement of Iowa School Seniors" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Denver, 1974); Irene W. Hale, "October Inspiration: School Libraries Work!" Wilson Library Bulletin 45:127 (Oct. 1970).
  3. Didier, "An Overview."
  4. Examples of the skills taught were how to care for a book, different parts of a book, student responsibilities when checking out materials, and how to use reference materials, other nonfiction books, and the card catalog.
  5. Vernon Gifford and Jean Gifford, Effects of Teaching a Library Usage Unit to Seventh-Graders, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-South Educational Research Assn., New Orleans, Nov. 14–16, 1984 (ERIC document, ED 254 230), p.5.
  6. Mary J. Gilliland, "Can Libraries Make a Difference? Test Scores Say 'Yes!'," School Library Media Quarterly 14:67–70 (Winter 1986).
  7. Carol C. Kuhlthau, "The Information Search Process of High-Middle-Low Achieving High School Seniors," School Library Media Quarterly 17:224–28 (Summer 1989).
  8. M. Elspeth Goodin, "The Transferability of Library Research Skills from High School to College" (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers Univ., 1987).
  9. Rajjinder Garcha and Jeffrey N. Gatten, "Preliminary Observations of Non-traditional University Students," Library Review 39:13–20 (1990).
  10. Carol C. Kuhlthau, "The Information Search Process."
  11. Carol C. Kuhlthau, Teaching the Library Research Process (West Nyack, N.Y.: The Center for Applied Research in Education, 1985).
  12. Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz, Curriculum Initiative: An Agenda and Strategy for Library Media Programs (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1988).
  13. Ann Irving, Study and Information Skills Across the Curriculum (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1985).
  14. Barbara K. Stripling and Judy M. Pitts, Brainstorms and Blueprints: Teaching Library Research as a Thinking Process (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1988).
  15. Carol C. Kuhlthau, "A Process Approach to Library Skills Instruction," School Library Media Quarterly 13:35–40 (Winter 1985).
  16. Carol C. Kuhlthau, "Perceptions of the Information Search Process in Libraries: A Study in Changes from High School Through College," Information Processing and Management 24:419–27 (1988).
  17. For more detail on these important studies, readers are referred to the paper on the search process written for the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat by Carol Kuhlthau.
  18. Kris B. Dewees, The Effect of Teaching Library Skills Using "The Pooh Step-by-Step Guide for Writing the Research Paper" at Lieder Elementary School in the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District. A Research Report, Master's Seminar Research Report, Prairie View A&M Univ., 1987 (ERIC document, ED 284 577).
  19. Jacqueline C. Mancall, Shirley L. Aaron, and Sue A. Walker, "Educating Students to Think: The Role of the School Library Media Program," School Library Media Quarterly 14:18–47 (Fall 1986).
  20. Bureau of State Library, division of School Library Media Services, Pennsylvania Department of Education, Integrating Information-Management Skills: A Process for Incorporating Library Media Skills into Content Areas (Harrisburg, Pa.: 1988), p.4.
  21. David F. Kohl and Lizabeth A. Wilson, "Effectiveness of Course-integrated Bibliographic Instruction in Improving Coursework," RQ 26:206 (Winter 1986).
  22. Ibid., p.210
  23. Retta Patrick, "Effect of Certain Reporting Techniques on Instructional Involvement of Library Media Specialists," Drexel Library Quarterly 21:66–67 (Spring 1985).
  24. Ibid., p.60.
  25. Thomas H. Walker and Paula Kay Montgomery, Teaching Library Media Skills (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1983).
  26. Philip Turner, Helping Teachers Teach (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985).
  27. David Loertscher, Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1988).
  28. Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz, Curriculum Initiative: An Agenda and Strategy for Library Media Programs (Norword, N.J.: Ablex, 1988).
  29. Cindy Jeffrey Krimmelbein, The Choice to Change: Establishing an Integrated School Library Media Program (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1989).
  30. Michael B. Eisenberg, "Curriculum Mapping and Implementation of an Elementary School Library Media Skills Curriculum," School Library Media Quarterly 12:411–18 (Fall 1984).
  31. Mary Susan Iacovou, Does Computer-Assisted Instruction Affect the Achievement of Third-Graders in Library Skills? Master's thesis, Kean College of New Jersey, 1987 (ERIC document ED 286 464).
  32. Stephen W. Zsiray, Jr., "A Comparison of Three Instructional Approaches in Teaching the Use of the Abridged Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature," Journal of Educational Technology Systems 12:241–47 (1983–1984).
  33. Ibid., p.245.
  34. Larry Hardesty, Use of Media in Library Use Instruction, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Library Assn., Dallas, June 25, 1984. (ERIC document ED 261 688), p.8.
  35. Ivor Davies, Competency Based Learning (New York: McGraw Hill, 1973), p.161. Cited in Hardesty, op. cit., p.8.
  36. American Association of School Librarians, Information Power.

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