InfoQuest: A New Twist on Information Literacy

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Designed to motivate students to do more research, InfoQuest ensures that information literacy skills are continuously practiced. Using InfoQuest, each week a different research question is posed. Students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded on Friday to the students who have researched the answer correctly. This guide to implementing InfoQuest in your library includes a wealth of ready-made resource sheets for specific subject areas as well as a list of resources for individualizing the program to meet your specific needs. Teach information literacy skills with minimum preparation for you and a whole lot of fun for students Encourages students' natural curiosity Gives students repetitive practice in developing research skills

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What first began as an article in Library Talk has become a professional tool that school librarians of all grade levels can use. The author has taken a year-long information literacy game that she planned for her school and expanded it greatly. The first two sections of the book, Perspective and Philosophy, provide a well-researched and well-written explanation of information literacy and all of the various aspects that must be considered. This summary of the current research and history of information literacy will help many librarians who haven't kept up. Though this was originally planned for use in an elementary school, it is appropriate in a middle school. High school librarians with a little creative thinking can devise ways to use it, too. I'm thinking that my student library helpers will be participating in InfoQuest next year! One of my favorite details of this book is the plethora of quotations in sidebars throughout the first two sectionsyou know, the ones you love to put into presentations. Highly recommended. * The Book Report *

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Peggy Milam Creighton is the library media specialist at Compton Elementary School in Powder Springs, GA.