Overview

Help adults returning to school learn to find and use the information they need! Reference Services for the Adult Learner: Challenging Issues for the Traditional and Technological Era offers proven, effective approaches for teaching adult patrons how and where to find information. Unlike younger students, who in many cases grew up with computers at school and in the home, many older patrons are uncomfortable with current technologies. They may not remember how to use a card catalogue, but at least the drawers and index cards look familiar. A phrase like database search may bring on confusion and anxiety for them. Including the views of faculty, adult students, and administrators as well as librarians, Reference Services for the Adult Learner provides you with theories of educational psychology that explain how adults learn, as well as suggestions from adult learners to help you understand what these clients need to know about using new technologies and finding information. Reference Services for the Adult Learner provides original empirical research on such vital issues as: technophobia, technostress, and information literacy the unique needs of the adult learner, including evening and weekend access to information and instruction adult-learning theories and appropriate teaching strategies to take advantage of adult students'strengths distance learning and the adult student issues of information literacy and approaches to seeking, analyzing, and evaluating information adult learners in special populations, including international and disabled students Containing research from librarians and adult learners from the United States, Canada, and Australia, Reference Services for the Adult Learner offers you teaching strategies that will enable adult patrons to easily locate and properly use all of the materials in your library.

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Author:   Sarkodie-Mensah Kwasi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Haworth Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.704kg
ISBN:  

9780789009906

ISBN 10:   0789009900
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   11 October 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, SECTION 1: INFORMATION EXPLOSION, TECHNOPHOBIA, AND TECHNOSTRESS, The Information Explosion: Continuing Implications for Reference Services to Adult Learners in Academia, The Information Explosion and the Adult Learner: Implications for Reference Librarians, Stress Relief: Help for the Technophobic Patron from the Reference Desk, Overcoming Technostress in Reference Services to Adult Learners, Technological Mediation: Reference and the Non-Traditional Student, Challenges Faced by Reference Librarians in Familiarizing Adult Students with the Computerized Library of Today: The Cuesta College Experience, SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTERISTICS, NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS OF ADULT LEARNERS TO BETTER SERVE THEM, Envisioning the Mature Re-Entry Student: Constructing New Identities in the Traditional University Setting, A Close Encounter Model for Reference Services to Adult Learners: The Value of Flexibility and Variance, Helping Adult Undergraduates Make the Best Use of Emerging Technologies, Understanding the Characteristics, Concerns, and Priorities of Adult Learners to Enhance Library Services to Them, The After-Five Syndrome: Library Hours and Services for the Adult Learner, SECTION 3: THEORIES OF ADULT LEARNING: IMPLICATIONS FOR REFERENCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES FOR THE ADULT LEARNER, How Do We Learn?: Contributions of Learning Theory to Reference Service and Library Instruction, The Andragogical Librarian, Adult Learning Theory and Reference Services: Consonances and Potentials, SECTION 4: FROM A DISTANCE: PROVIDING REFERENCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES FOR THE ADULT LEARNER, The Librarian as Bricoleur: Meeting the Needs of Distance Learners, Interactive Reference at a Distance: A Corporate Model for Academic Libraries, Reference Provision in Adult

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