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The Science Library Catalog: A Springboard for Information Literacy
Virginia A. Walter, Christine L. Borgman, and Sandra G. Hirsh
- One important document is Christina A. Doyle, Final Report to the National Forum on Information Literacy (Syracuse, N.Y.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, 1992). Another is California Media and Library Educators Association, From Library Skills to Information Literacy: A Handbook for the 21st Century (Castle Rock, Colo.: Hi Willow, 1994), which provides both a rationale and a guidebook for the information literacy movement.
- Carol C. Kuhlthau, Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1993).
- Michael Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz, Information Problem Solving: Big Six Skills Approach to Library and Information Skills Instruction (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1990).
- See, for example, Pamela Moore and Alison St. George, "Children as Information Seekers: The Cognitive Demands of Books and Library Systems," SLMQ 19 (Spring 1991): 161-68, and Paul Solomon, "Children's Information Retrieval Behavior: A Case Analysis of an OPAC," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (June 1993): 245-64.
- Robert Kail, The Development of Memory in Children, 2d ed. (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1984).
- Leslie Edmonds, Paula Moore, and Kathleen M. Balcom, "The Effectiveness of an Online Catalog," School Library Media Journal 36 (Oct. 1990): 28-32.
- Paul Solomon, "Children's Information Retrieval Behavior," documented children's problems with both spelling and keyboarding in his study of elementary children's use of OPACs. Delia Neuman, "Designing Databases as Tools for Higher-level Learning: Insights from Instructional Systems Design," Educational Technology Research and Development 41 (Winter 1993):25-46, documented the continuation of these and other problems into high school.
- The most extensive overview of the research results appears in Christine L. Borgman and others, "Children's Searching Behavior on Browsing and Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46 (October 1995): 663-84. Other sources reporting various aspects of the project are Christine L. Borgman and others, "Children's Use of an Interactive Science Library," SLMQ 18 (1990): 108-12; Christine L. Borgman and others, "From Hands-On Science to Hands-On Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 52d American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 26 (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1989): 96-103; Christine L. Borgman and others, "Children's Use of an Interactive Catalog of Science Materials," in Proceedings of the 53d American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 27 (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1990): 55-68; Christine L. Borgman and others, "The Science Library Catalog Project: Comparison of Children's Searching Behavior in a Direct Manipulation and a Keyword Search System," in Proceedings of the 54th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 28 (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1992): 162-69; Virginia A. Walter, "Memory and Metaphor: Designing the Science Library Catalog," in Catalogs for Kids: Organization, Access, and Interface, ed. Sherry Velucci (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, in press); and Virginia A. Walter and Christine L. Borgman, "The Science Library Catalog: A Prototype Information Retrieval System for Children," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 4 (Winter 1991): 159-66.
- Jean Piaget and B. Inhelder, The Psychology of the Child (New York: Basic Books, 1969).
- Jason B. Rosenberg and Christine L. Borgman, "A Report on the Loading of MARC Format Bibliographic Records into HyperCard," Information Technology and Libraries 10 (1991): 292-97.
- Paul Solomon, "Children, Technology, and Instruction: A Case Study of Elementary School Children Using an Online Public Access Catalog [OPAC]," SLMQ (Fall 1994): 43-51.
- Results of testing with Version 5 of the SLC will be reported in Sandra Hirsh's dissertation, "The Effect of Domain Knowledge on Children's Search Behavior on an Information Retrieval System: The Science Library Catalog" (Ph.D. diss., UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, in progress) and in Sandra G. Hirsh and Christine L. Borgman, "Comparing Use of Browsing and Keyword Searching on the Science Library Catalog," Proceedings of the 58th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 32 (Medford, N.J.: Learned Information, 1995: 19-26).
- Paul Solomon, "Children's Information Retrieval Behavior."
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