Product Description: This volume addresses how we might help students find the “why” of their educational endeavors. The ideas found in this volume range from: • changing the perceptions and attitudes of whole communities toward education, • retuning the first year experience to give students more opportunities to find meaning in their learning, • suggesting new ways of integrating students’ experiences with their learning in core courses, and • connecting major initiatives already in place to demonstrate how we might restructure undergraduate education through the content of the curriculum, the way we teach, and our curricular learning experiences...read more

Product Description: This issue draws on the expertise of librarians and faculty to highlight the central role of information literacy in higher education. The authors show how approaches to information literacy can be used to engage undergraduates in research and creative scholarship...read more

Unique in perspective, this book connects the personal to the scholarly, showing readers “why” information literacy is important to an individual's life. Designed as a workbook, it consists of a number of readings, activities, writing assignments, connections to service learning, words from the business community, student writing, journals, technology tips, and essays on the value of information literacy. It introduces readers to the major components of scholarship, to the nature of investigation, ways of knowing, the concept of information literacy, how and why scholarship is created in an academic environment, and how each reader personally can contribute to the creation—and dissemination of knowledge. Beginning with personal narratives, readers focus on the value of knowledge, how past knowledge is understood in the present, how new knowledge is created, and how knowledge is used to create the future. Readers clearly see how they are responsible for making their information literacy “trip” interesting, meaningful, and significant. Learning. Your Story. Style and Intelligence. Values and Perspectives. Reality and Truth. Ways of Knowing. Information and Knowledge. Discourse. Research. Beyond the Classroom. Service Learning. Reflection. For anyone interested in information literacy.

Product Description: Book by Watts, Margit Misangyi