library orientation for middle school students

Explains the nine information literacy standards for student learning identified by the American Association of School Librarians, and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology; and provides guidelines library professionals can use to teach students these skills.

Presents activity sheets and other resources for nine information literacy and technology research projects for grades 6-9, covering such topics as careers, mystery stories, environmental art, biomes, the death penalty, and early-twentieth-century America.

Presents information for library media specialists on planning, implementing, and evaluating curriculum-based library media center programs in schools, and includes sample outlines, program examples, and reproducible forms.

Contains strategies designed to help librarians and middle school educators teach their students proper research skills.

Contains lessons designed to introduce elementary and middle grade students to the basic research processes and to provide opportunities for them to practice these processes.

Provides standards and guidelines for library media specialists and others in individual states, districts, and sites for training information-literate students.

Discusses how an information problem-solving strategy created by the author called FLIP IT! can be used by students, teachers, and librarians for all kinds of educational applications like reports, curriculum development, school events, and more.