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New in Paperback! A complete instructional program for introducing students to the process of library research, with ready-to-use activities and worksheets. Cloth edition [0-8108-2723-9] published in 1994. Paperback edition available April 2002.

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This professional resource is strongly recommended for secondary schools, particularly grades 9 to 13. School Libraries In Canada Every librarian and teacher of middle school and high school students should be clutching this volume to their hearts and using it with delight and thanks...I further think this is a work which would benefit college teachers and even graduate professors. Voya Unlike other library-skills curriculum books...this book concentrates on the critical thinking, problem solving, and constructive processes of learning that students go through. The worksheets develop the cognitive and metacognitive strategies students need to complete the library research process successfully...highly recommended. Rq ...easy to use...the best book of its kind currently available... Library and Information Science Research Public librarians need to read this text so they will recognize the process in which students are engaged. Public Library Quarterly This book will be most useful when both a library media specialist and teacher take it to heart. Library Journal This practical resource will be especially useful to assist library media specialists and teachers, particularly teachers of English or social science, in forming a partnership to develop a complete instructional program for introducing students to the process of library research. Australian Library Journal

This professional resource is strongly recommended for secondary schools, particularly grades 9 to 13. School Libraries In Canada Every librarian and teacher of middle school and high school students should be clutching this volume to their hearts and using it with delight and thanks...I further think this is a work which would benefit college teachers and even graduate professors. VOYA Unlike other library-skills curriculum books...this book concentrates on the critical thinking, problem solving, and constructive processes of learning that students go through. The worksheets develop the cognitive and metacognitive strategies students need to complete the library research process successfully...highly recommended. Rq ...easy to use...the best book of its kind currently available... Library & Information Science Research Public librarians need to read this text so they will recognize the process in which students are engaged. Public Library Quarterly This book will be most useful when both a library media specialist and teacher take it to heart. Library Journal This practical resource will be especially useful to assist library media specialists and teachers, particularly teachers of English or social science, in forming a partnership to develop a complete instructional program for introducing students to the process of library research. Australian Library Journal

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Carol Collier Kuhlthau (MLS, EdD, Rutgers University) is Associate Professor, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers and coordinates the school library media specialist certification program. Her many publications include Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, School Librarian's Grade-by-Grade Activites Program, Information Skills for an Information Age, and numerous articles on information seeking, information skills, and information literacy. Her research on the information search process received the Jesse Shera Award from the American Library Association.

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