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The Fortuitous Teacher

• 1st Edition
• March 2, 2016
• Sarah Cisse
• English
• Paperback 978-0-08-100193-6

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• eBook 978-0-08-100240-7

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The Fortuitous Teacher: A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction discusses how librarians have become accidental teachers in the academic university setting. It covers how (if at all) librarians are prepared by MILS programs to teach, compares typical characteristics of teachers versus librarians, and presents tactics on how to learn effective teaching skills on the job. In addition, readers will learn about the history of library instruction, the different types of library instruction, and the dynamics of one-shot library instruction, classroom culture, faculty buy-in, and collaboration.

Instructional Strategies and Techniques for Information Professionals

• 1st Edition
• April 10, 2012
• Nicole Cooke + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-643-2

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• eBook 978-1-78063-295-7

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Increasingly, library personnel are called upon to teach classes, deliver presentations and represent their organizations in an official capacity. This book is designed to assist those professionals with little to no experience designing and delivering training, instructional sessions, and presentations. Suitable for all librarians, library staff and library school students, this practical guide will get the library professional up and running as a trainer and presenter.

A Librarian’s Guide on How to Publish

• 1st Edition
• March 29, 2011
• Srecko Jelusic + 1 more
• English
• eBook 978-1-78063-261-2

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A Librarian’s Guide on How to Publish discusses the publishing strategies needed for the development of skills that are essential for successful job requirements and the production of quality print and electronic publications. The book serves as a useful guide indicating the main principles of professional library publishing activities in both print and virtual environments. A number of library activities are, in fact, publishing, and requires librarians to have the knowledge and skills in order to manage it. With the wide use of web sites, these competencies are becoming indispensable. Whether it is publishing catalogues of their collections, selected bibliographies, exhibition catalogues, or journals. The Internet has transformed libraries’ web pages into real publishing projects.

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning

• 1st Edition
• September 22, 2009
• Mark Hepworth + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-441-4

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• eBook 978-1-78063-017-5

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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is highly beneficial to those who teach or train people and need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Whether at school, college, university or work people need to use the wealth of information around them effectively. They need to find things out, assemble, process, evaluate, manage as well as communicate information. Increasingly a fundamental part of being information literate and an independent learner is being e-literate. This book helps the trainer understand the learner and use appropriate methods to help them explore and engage with being information and e-literate. It also helps the learner to be conscious of what it means to be information and e-literate and to use information effectively.

A Comprehensive Library Staff Training Programme in the Information Age

• 1st Edition
• February 28, 2007
• Aileen Wood
• English
• eBook 978-1-78063-106-6

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This book discusses the issues surrounding the implementation and ‘selling’ of a comprehensive library staff training programme. Importantly, it contains many tried and tested techniques used by the author; it also includes standard documentation that readers can use in their own organisation for training purposes.

Training Library Patrons the Addie Way

• 1st Edition
• April 30, 2006
• Debby Wegener
• English
• eBook 978-1-78063-091-5

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This book takes an informal and in-depth look at the five steps of the ADDIE model - Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation – as used in library training programmes. With hints and tips and practical advice from other trainers, the aims of the book are to (1) make the training of library patrons a simple task and (2) to show library staff that training can be rewarding and extremely satisfying. Anyone who has had to design a library training programme will know that it can be quite a daunting task without guidelines, but when it comes to the various learning theories and the associated instructional design models, the choice can be overwhelming. This book will help the reader overcome these problems.