presented at the georgia conference on information literacy by marnie utz and steven yates,...
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A Librarian’s Dream: Two Full Weeks of Information Literacy Instruction
Presented at the Georgia Conference on Information Literacyby Marnie Utz and Steven Yates, LibrariansSpain Park High School, Hoover, Alabama
BEFORE
THE OPPORTUNITY
HIGH SCHOOL 101—an introduction to
high school life
We approached the Business Tech
teachers who were in charge of developing the curriculum and asked for two weeks
WHAT TO TEACH?
Survey the students
Think to yourself…
Survey the faculty
Survey the parents
STUDENT SURVEY
EVOLUTION
Evolution
ORGANIZING AND MEETING; MEETING AND ORGANIZING
400 students!
DURING
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
#1
Library Orientation
Two Days of Orientation
Map of the Library
Introduction to the DDC
Combing the Shelves
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
#2Using Destiny, the library catalog, to
find books and appropriate websites
http://destiny.hoover.k12.al.us
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
#3Searching databases, including the
Alabama Virtual Library (AVL)
(The AVL is similar to Georgia’s Galileo.)
WHAT’S IN A DATABASE?
ASSIGN A DATABASE AND TOPIC
DATABASE PROJECT
DATABASE PROJECT
STUDENT WORK
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
#4Evaluating Websites
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
The TRUST Test
OTHER SKILLS AND WRAP-UP
LIBRARY ETIQUETTE
How to check out a book Fines Circulation policies Logging in Printing Saving documents Emailing documents to yourself
PLAGIARISM
GAME DAY—JEOPARDY
This section of the library contains books about the life of Harry Houdini, Jennifer Lopez, and Marquis de LaFayette.
FictionNonfictionBiographyReference
•Nonfiction•Biography•Reference
•Nonfiction•Biography•Reference
GAME DAY—SCAVENGER HUNT
AFTER
Another Survey!
Business Tech Teacher Survey
Informal, face to face, survey
TEACHER E-MAIL
TEACHER E-MAIL
What we saw happening with the 9th graders…
When students came in to research, we noticed the following habits:
1) The students used databases instead of Google the majority of the time.
2) The students could easily complete searches on the library catalog and find the books they needed on the shelves.
3) We knew most of the students’ names or at least recognized them.
4) The students would approach us with questions about anything, library related or not.
Other effects…
We forged a strong bond with the business tech teachers.
One of the business tech teachers nominated us for Teacher of the Quarter
We would get to watch the 9th graders’ information literacy skills progress for the next four years.
Because we knew each 9th grader had received the same “training,” we had a better feel for how to guide them in the years to come.
CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
A NEW SCHEDULE
Side Effects
Your office will look like this…
…with cataloging galore waiting for you…
Marnie’s Thoughts
Steven’s thoughts…