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Information Rich but Knowledge Poor? Emerging Issues for Schools and Libraries Worldwide ▲ ▲ —————————————————▲—————————————————— ▲ ▲ ▲ Information Rich but Knowledge Poor? Emerging Issues for Schools and Libraries Worldwide ▲ ▲ edited by Lynne Lighthall Ken Haycock Research and Professional Papers Presented at the 26th annual conference of the International Association of School Librarianship held in conjunction with the Association for Teacher-librarianship in Canada at the University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada July 06-11, 1997 1997 International Association of School Librarianship Seattle, Washington, USA ▲ ▲ i —————————————————▲—————————————————— Copyright © 1997 International Association of School librarianship No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher. ISBN: 1-89086-21-9 ISSN: 0257–3229 Orders:LMC Source P. O. Box 720400 San Jose CA 95172-0400 Voice: 800–873-3043; 831-634-1456 Fax: 831–634–1456 E–mail: [email protected] Correspondence: International Association of School librarianship Box 34069, Suite 300 Seattle Washington 98124–1069 Voice: 604-925-0266; Fax: 604-925-0566 E–mail: [email protected] ii —————————————————▲—————————————————— CONTENTS Contents...................................................................................................................................iii Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................vi The Editors............................................................................................................................. vii The Contributors..................................................................................................................viii Introduction........................................................................................................................... xiv THEME 1: THINKING SKILLS: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN DATA AND KNOWLEDGE........ 1 Attitudes of Youth Toward Reading Before and After a Motivational Project..............................3 Shirley A. Fitzgibbons (United States of America) Critical Thinking: Tools for Internet Information Evaluatio.....................................................39 Mary Ann Fitzgerald (United States of America) High School to University: What Skills Do Students Need?........................................................53 Eileen Daniel (Canada) Information Skills: The Reflections and Perceptions of Student Teachers and Related Professionals...........................................................................................................63 Kay Wilson (United Kingdom) Integrating Information Technology Into and Across the Curriculum: A Short Course for Secondary Students...............................................................................................................75 Eleanor B. Howe (United States of America) An Interdisciplinary Model for Assessing Learning.................................................................... 87 Robert Grover, Jacqueline McMahon Lakin, and Jane Dickerson (United States of America) Meeting Drug Information Needs of Adolescents.......................................................................97 Ross Todd (Australia) Living and Learning in the Global Village.................................................................................109 Gene Burdenuk (Canada) THEME 2: FROM TODAY TO TOMORROW: BRIDGING THE FUTURE........................119 Evolution and Revolution in School Library Practice...............................................................121 Suzette Boyd (Australia) Information Literacy: Teacher’s Perspectives of the Information Process..............................125 Judy O’Connell and James Henri (Australia) The Impact of a Technology-Rich Environment.....................................................................137 Dania B. Meghabghab and Catherine Price (United States of America) iii —————————————————▲—————————————————— It’s the Same the Whole World Over: Bridging the Gap in New Zealand.................................. 143 Elizabeth Probert and John Fowler (Australia) Library Power as a Vehicle for the Evolution of Change..........................................................155 Shirley A. Tastad and Julie Talman (United States of America) Not Extinct! School Libraries for Learning and Leadership......................................................165 Kay Ellen Hones(United States of America) Our Patch VS. Their Patch: Information Technology and Literacy in Schools.........................171 Barbara Yates (Australia) A Reality Check: The Challenges of Implementing Information Power in School Library Media Programs.......................................................................................................... 179 Cheryl Ann McCarthy (United States of America) Teacher-Librarians in Learning Organizations......................................................................... 197 Jean Brown and Bruce Sheppard (Canada) We’ve Done Research, Now What? Multimedia Authoring as a Report Tool...........................217 Michelle Larose-Kuzenko (Canada) THEME 3: CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING: BRIDGING DIVERSE CULTURE................225 Accepting Tolerance and Diversity..........................................................................................227 Madeleine Hoss and Roslyn Wylie (United States of America) Best Children’s Picture Books from Abroad: Valuing Other Cultures........................................ 231 Maureen White (United States of America) THEME 4: CULTURAL EXPRESSION: CREATING BRIDGES OF MEANING.................243 Information For All: Resource Generation and Information Repackaging in Nigerian Schools......................................................................................................................245 Virginia W. Dike and Nancy Amucheazi (Nigeria) THEME 5: ACCESS TO INFORMATION: NARROWING THE GAP................................255 The Impact of the Prince Edward Island School Library Policy on the Development of School Library Programs Across Prince Edward Island.........................................................257 Ray Doiron and Judy Davies (Canada) Libraries and Reading Habits Among Elementary School Children: The Concept of the Classroom Collection.........................................................................................................269 Snunith Shoham (Israel) Providing Potential for Progress: Learning Support for Students with Special Educational Needs....................................................................................................................277 Margaret Kinnell Evans and Peggy Heeks (United Kingdom) iv —————————————————▲—————————————————— The Relationship of School Materials and Resources to Reading Literacy: An International Perspective...................................................................................................289 Victor Froese (Canada) THEME 6: MASS MEDIA: SPANNING THE GLOBE..........................................................311 PANEL: The School Librarian as Internet Mediator: A Case Study and Evaluation................................ 313 James Herring (Scotland) Planning for Action: Turning Meaningful Data into Programs and Promotion........................ 321 Eleanor Howe, Jack Stack, and Marcia Rettig-Seitam (United States of America) Teacher-Librarian? What’s in a Name? Making Meaning from Metaphor............................... 329 James Henri (Australia) Delphi Studies: The Value of Expert Opinion Bridging the Gap - Data to Knowledge............... 335 Arthur Wizenried (Australia) THEME 7: SUMMATION...................................................................................................... 341 The Information Literacy Movement of the School Library Media Field: A Preliminary Summary of the Research.....................................................................................343 Loertscher, David V. and Blanche Woolls (United States of America) MACRO INDEX.....................................................................................................................375 v —————————————————▲—————————————————— ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors wish to thank the IASL Executive Committee and the ATLC Board for their foresight in suggesting these Proceedings be published in time for each delegate to the conference to receive a copy at registration. Thanks also go to David Loertscher of Hi Willow Research and Publishing for taking on the task of producing the published Proceedings with a minimum of lead time! We acknowledge the efforts of Elissa Checov, a recent graduate of the Master of Library and Information Studies program at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, for her care and diligence in copy editing and data entry. We also recognize the contribution made by the members of the Research Forum Jury and the review panel for the professional papers. They are: Dr. Anne Clyde (Iceland), Dr. Rebecca Knuth (USA), Dr. Maureen Nimon (Australia), and Dr. Dianne Oberg for the research forum; and Judy Davies (Canada), Gloria Hersak (Canada), and Ted Monkhouse (Canada) for the professional papers. And, most importantly, we express our appreciation to all the presenters who responded to the Call for Proposals with such timely and relevant topics and then took the time and effort to turn them into the thoughtful papers presented here. We have
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