Part 6 in my series about developing a library curriculum.
I divided the skills I want to teach into eleven (really twelve) lessons.
1. Rules: How to behave in the library. How to treat library materials. What happens in the library? Who works in the library?
2. Begin alphabetization. Parts of a library book. How to sign a library card. Get a library card.
3. Continue alphabetization. What is a reference book? Where is the reference section? How to choose the right volume of the World Book encyclopedia. How to use the copier.
4. Practice getting a copy of an encyclopedia article independently. (Repeat as necessary)
5. Introduction to subject-title-author. How to find the subject -title -author of a book. Books at the library are arranged all three ways. Why author's last name is used. Find a book whose author begins with a letter. Whose title begins with a letter. Show that this doesn't work with subjects!
6a. Library of Congress cataloguing system. Choose a subject and go to the library and find a book. Checking out at the desk.
6b. Dewey Decimal system. Choose a subject and go to the library and find a book. Checking out at the desk.
(Both are going to be included because the Minneapolis City Library system uses the LC system and the Hennepin County library system uses the DD system. They're thinking of merging if they can figure out how to make employee pay scales match. Wonder how much it will cost to re-label all the books.)
7. Returning books to the desk. Finding a fiction book by author. Asking librarian for help. Checking out with the self-checkout.
8. Introduction to catalogs. How to find fiction book by subject or title? Nonfiction book by title or author? Make a card catalog. Visit a card catalog. Introduction to concept of call number.
9. How to use the electronic catalog. Electronic search by Author.
10. Electronic search by Title
11. And by Subject.
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