Literary Library Life: 02/2011

Information Literacy Teaching the Research Process

The core of information literacy instruction and curriculum is the research process. There are several models for this process. I have used three, all of which have common elements.

When I taught in a Jesuit school, I used the Ignatian Research Process, which was first developed by Melody Degnan at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City.

I have also used the Big Six Research Process www.big6.com and the Information Fluency model from the Illinois Math and Science Academy. http://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/difcore/

All three models follow similar patterns, and contain the key elements of :
defining the question

planning a search strategy, which includes creating a list of key words and determining what resources to search

searching for information, using a variety of sources and research strategies

evaluating the information found for relevancy and accuracy

using the information in an ethical manner

synthesizing the information into a product which can communicate new information or ideas.

What I'm Reading

Amy's bookshelf: read

The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Mystery

The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Mystery

by Jean-Luc Bannalec

Commissaire Georges Dupin has a problem. He is on a two week vacation, with his girlfriend, on the Brittany coast, in one of the most beautiful seaside villages in the world. And he hates being on vacation. Lying on the beach and doing n...

tagged: 2021 and mystery

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

I received a copy through #NetGalley from the publisher, Hanover Square Press/Harlequin, in exchange for an unbiased review. I learned about it at #LJDayofDialogue There is a cafe, which, if you know where it is, and are patient, you ca...

tagged: 2021, reviewed-from-egalley, speculative-fiction, and literary-fiction

Murder at an Irish Christmas

by Carlene O'Connor

I really liked it. I liked the series from the beginning. I met the author at an #LJ Day of Dialog and was impressed by her love for Ireland and her imagined village (based on a real one in another county) Christmas finds Siobhan taking...

tagged: 2021 and mystery

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come

by Mildred D. Taylor

I have loved Cassie Logan and her family since I read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as a child. These are brilliant books of historical fiction that make you feel as if you are there. I recommend all the books. Here, Cassie is an adult, a...

A Crime of a Different Stripe

by Sally Goldenbaum

Izzy and her friends are the Miss Marples of the late 20th Century — their very old fashioned relationships don’t move them quite to the 21st, though the oldest of them now has an iPAD. They wander around their small town chatting with p...

tagged: 2021 and mystery

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Reading List

Amy's bookshelf: 2017

Booked for Trouble

by Eva Gates

This book was not as successful as the first one; the author has an interesting setting and some interesting ideas, but no character development, so it falls flat. She has a lot of potential, but she has to make all of her characters, an...

tagged: 2017 and ps-ultimate-book-challenge-2017

By Book or By Crook

by Eva Gates

While the author clearly has never worked in a library, her imagined library within a lighthouse on North Carolina's outer banks has amusing characters and an interesting setting. While I also guessed the murderer, I found this a good on...

tagged: 2017 and ps-ultimate-book-challenge-2017

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

This is a very powerful story. I feel that I am seeing new highlights to the history Ive lived (late 20th Century) lately, both in reading this book and in seeing the film Hidden Figures. McBride is a good writer, and the stories of hi...

tagged: 2017, book-group, and ps-ultimate-book-challenge-2017

Crosstalk

by Connie Willis

I loved this book, though it could use a little editing. It is my favorite Connie Willis since Bellwether. Is elective brain surgery ever a good idea? This book gives you a lot to think about in terms of privacy, communication, and famil...

tagged: 2017 and ps-ultimate-book-challenge-2017

Goldenhand

by Garth Nix

This is an excellent addition to an interesting series. I read it in one sitting, unable to put it down. I think that's true of the whole series, though I read the first one some time ago. This story continues Liriel's story, and therefo...

tagged: 2017 and ps-ultimate-book-challenge-2017

To the Last Drop: A Coffee House Cozy Mystery

To the Last Drop: A Coffee House Cozy Mystery

by Sandra Balzo

I picked up this series because it is set in Wisconsin, and it's decent, but not as good as I wish every time I pick another one up. The series reminds one of Diane Mott Davidson, but not quite as well written, with slightly less well de...

tagged: 2017

Some of my favorite books and books you should try. . .

Essay: Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
Fantasy: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Historical & Contemporary Fiction: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Humor: Once Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb
Middle Grades: Rules by Cynthia Lord
Mystery: City of Whispers Marcia Muller
Mystery: Still Life by Louise Penny
Mystery: All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mystery: Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
Non-Fiction: American Grown by Michelle Obama
Non-Fiction: Back to Work by Bill Clinton
Non-Fiction: Bad Animals by Joel Yanofsky
Non-Fiction: Quiet by Susan Cain
Non-Fiction: Booking Passage by Thomas Lynch
Picture Book: Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Picture Book: To Everything There Is A Season: Verses from Ecclesiastes by Leo and Diane Dillon
Poetry: What Have You Lost by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry: White Sea by Cleopatra Mathis
Spirituality: Coping with Adversity by Gordon Fuller and Joel Roffman
Sprituality: Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
YA & Humor: Totally Joe by James Howe
YA: Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
YA: Realm of Possibility by David Leviathan

Literary Library Life

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Massive crowd protests at State Capitol on Wednesday

Fortune Cookie