Our Library, Our Learning Centre: Book 1 Cover

Our Library, Our Learning Centre: Book 1

An activity book on how to use the library

Set them up for life. Our Library, Our Learning Centre is based on the premise that education is about creating lifelong learners. Activities promote Information Age skills with which students can navigate the library, its books and the Internet. This series supports teachers in the systematic delivery and assessment of students' information learning.

Ages: 9-12 | Pages: 60 | Code: 0168 | ISBN: 9781877300578

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Contents

Introduction4
Unit plan5
1. Your school library: the inside information7
What happens in your library?
People at work
Library layout: how is it arranged?
2. Library resources: learning treasures11
What is in your library?
What books are in your library?
3. Fiction: the wonderful world of storying14
What do you know about fiction books?
A book with a backbone: the spine label
Finding a fiction book
Judging a book by its cover
Reading and writing fiction book reviews
Be a fiction writer
4. Non-fiction: a goldmine of information23
What is non-fiction?
Arranging non-fiction books: the Dewey Decimal system
Doing research with the Dewey Decimal system
The main features of a non-fiction book
Your general guide: the contents page
Your detailed guide: the index
Writing a non-fiction book review
Choosing the right book
5. Computer skills: the world at your fingertips34
Searching on the computer: an overview
Doing a subject search
Doing a key word search
Using the Internet
6. Research skills: getting it all together40
The roadmap to your best ever research results
Choose and explore your topic
Getting up-to-date information
Make notes and summarise
Say it straight: where did you get your information from?
Be a non-fiction writer
7. Special resources: just what you were looking for53
Using reference resources
Using encyclopaedias
Using and enjoying sophisticated picture books
Maori resources
8. Library skills quiz58
Answers to library skills quiz