Engaging First-Year Students in Meaningful Library Research

Written by a seasoned academic librarian, this book offers strategies for motivating and developing beginning college students’ research skills. You will learn how to integrate library research techniques into first-year courses and prepare students for meaningful research through a process-driven framework. There are numerous practical models and real-life examples of library research assignments. This is a a process-driven, constructivist framework for engaging freshmen in interesting, meaningful and disciplinarily relevant ways.