Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips for Practitioners

by Donna L. Gilton

Overview

Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips For Practitioners is the sequel to Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Principles, Programs, and People. On the one hand, Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries focuses on the information needs and the developmental and psychological characteristics of diverse library users of all ages. It endorses the use of ILI to promote lifelong learning in public libraries, both by borrowing techniques from academic and school libraries and by building on existing public library traditions of programming and outreach. This book also compares lifelong learning in public libraries to informal and nonformal education in museums, community organizations and agencies, places of worship, and other organizations. In addition, Lifelong Learnng in Public Libraries describes basic steps that librarians can execute in order to get started.
On the other hand, Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries focuses much more on how public librarians can specifically plan and implement their instruction with chapters on planning for instruction, using teaching methodologies, teaching with and about technology, and bringing ILI together with more traditional public library services, programming, and activities, such as reference and Readers’ Advisory services, bibliotherapy, and cultural and literacy programming. Changes in ILI standards and comparisons of ILI with basic reading, media, digital, and cultural literacies are also described. Both books together should act as basic manuals for public librarians who promote lifelong learning. Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries also have helpful teaching hints for all librarians and other professionals who teach in a variety of settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442269538
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/21/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Donna Gilton is currently Professor Emerita, Library Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Rhode Island, where she was a faculty member since 1992. She earned her PhD from Pittsburgh and has published extensively in the research literature as well as two previous books.

Table of Contents

1 What Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries Is All About 1

Planning Modes and Instructional Models 1

Scope and Organization 3

Notes 3

2 Planning for Formal Instruction 5

Decision Points 5

ILI Planning for the Whole Library 20

Preparing to Teach 26

Notes 28

3 Teaching Methodologies 31

Lectures 31

Active Learning in the Classroom 34

Games and Gaming 36

Applying Active Learning to Real Life 44

Universal Design of Learning, Instruction, and Information Literacy 47

Toward Evaluation 48

Notes 51

4 Implementing Instruction with Technology 55

Web 1.0 55

Web 2.0 69

Combining Web 1.0 and 2.0 103

Notes 119

5 Connecting Information Literacy to Other Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries 133

Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, and Independent Learning 133

Reference Encounters and Research Consultations, Off- and Online 139

Readers' Advisory Services 143

Bibliotherapy 151

Cultural and Literary Programming 159

Lifelong Learning and Public Libraries: Tying It All Together 162

Notes 163

6 Conclusion: ILI Futures 169

More Technologies, More Complex Technologies 169

Changes in Standards 170

Other Literacies 174

Implication, Application, and Remaining Questions 178

Notes 179

Bibliography 181

Index 203

About the Author 213