President Obama declared October as Information Literacy Awareness Month; as leaders in information literacy instruction, librarians must teach their users to find information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning, to be released in North America by Neal-Schuman Publishers on December 1, 2009, helps librarians better understand learners’ needs, and provides them with appropriate methods for teaching information literacy skills.

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is highly beneficial to those who teach or train people who need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Authors Mark Hepworth and Geoff Walton provide guidance for training people to assemble, process, evaluate, manage, and communicate information, and provide real life examples from both educational and professional settings. They focus especially on e-literacy, an increasingly fundamental part of being fully information literate, and there are guidelines for using face-to-face, blended and e-learning methods.

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is an essential reference tool for any LIS professional or faculty member responsible for teaching information literacy skills.

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning

ISBN 978-1-84334-441-4; Chandos Publishing 2009; 6 x 9; 200pp; $95

About the Authors
Mark Hepworth is a senior lecturer at Loughborough University, UK in the Department of information Science. he teaches information literacy, information retrieval, the development of user centered information services.
Geoff Walton is a Subject and learning Support librarian and Research informed Teaching Project Coordinator at Staffordshire University, UK supporting the Health and Sciences subject areas.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers and Chandos Publishing
Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York city with offices in London, UK. Neal-Schuman is a leading publisher of professional and academic titles in all areas of library and information studies. Since June 2009, Neal-Schuman has also been the exclusive North American distributor for titles from the united Kingdom’s Chandos Publishing, a division of Woodhead Publishing limited. books are a leading, highly practical source of authoritative information for professionals and researchers worldwide.

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