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Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction

Changes for Challenging Times

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Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction

Changes for Challenging Times

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Tracing the historical development of information literacy skills instruction, Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction supports best practices for today's librarians.

Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction, Fifth Edition, provides insights on improving instruction across contexts drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology. This text is useful to school, academic, and public librarians and library and information science students. In the new edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking during the tumultuous times of the pandemic, racial upheaval, and increased censorship. The effects of trauma-informed teaching, the science of reading, and artificial intelligence on the library world are also included. Gen Alpha is added to the previous edition's discussion of generations X, Y, and Z.

Readers will appreciate using updated research to establish best practices in their libraries, LIS classes, and research studies.

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Introduction

1. Reference Traditions: From "Personal Assistance" to Instructional Intervention
2. The School Library: From Dream to Reality
3. The Information Search Process: Kuhlthau's Legacy
4. Cognitive and Social Frameworks for Teaching and Learning
5. Diagnosing Informational and Instructional Needs
6. Digital Natives and Digital Challenges: Teaching Information Literacy to Generations Z and Alpha
7. Creating Effective Inquiry-Based Assignments
8. Evaluating Students, Librarians, and Libraries
9. Attending to the Social and Emotional Needs of Today's Learners

References
Index

Product details

Published Dec 10 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 5th
Pages 288
ISBN 9798216186267
Imprint Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Illustrations 16 figures, 2 tables
Series Library and Information Science Text Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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