Building bridges connecting faculty, students, and the college library

• Main Author: McAdoo, Monty L.
• Format: Unknown
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 2010
• Subjects: Libraries and students; Library orientation for college students; College teaching; Academic libraries > Relations with faculty and curriculum; Information literacy > Study and teaching (Higher)
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Offers advice on working with both instructors and students to develop assignments that successfully integrate your library's resources.

Table of Contents:

• Information literacy and the need for effective assignments
• Working with faculty and the curriculum
• Common reasons assignments fail
• Using information technology
• Writing-from-sources and essay assignments
• Term/research papers
• Citing sources and information ethics
• Assignments in the online environment
• Tours
• Scavenger hunts
• In the classroom
• In the library
• Some final words.