Suggestive Outlines and Methods for Teaching the Use of the Library: A Guide for the Use of Librarians Giving Instruction to High School Students (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ward, Gilbert O.

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ISBN 10: 1332350879 ISBN 13: 9781332350872

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015

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Excerpt from Suggestive Outlines and Methods for Teaching the Use of the Library: A Guide for the Use of Librarians Giving Instruction to High School Students

General Considerations. In planning a course on the use of the library, it is necessary to keep its object clearly in mind. This object, which the foregoing observations imply, is not to create amateur librarians nor complete reference workers, but simply to make intelligent users of libraries with special reference to the needs of the high school stu dent. In carrying out this object there are certain practical problems of instruction to be solved. Appropriate subject matter first of all must be selected. It must then be presented in such order, at such times, and by such methods as will contribute most effectively to the formation by the pupil of useful library habits.

Subject Matter. It is not hard to indicate in a general way the outline of a suitable course. Leading subjects which have been recognized as desirable for inclusion are the physical care of books, the printed parts of a book, the arrangement of books in libraries, the card catalogue, reference books with especial attention to the unabridged dictionary, magazines and magazine indexes, and the use of the library as a whole, including the making of working bibliographies and the use of the library in debating.

These subjects, it will be observed, deal with means and methods of investigation and must form the backbone of a course in the use of a library. Among them should be noted as fundamental, for reasons explained in detail hereafter, the use of the ordinary book and of the dictionary. Since frequent contact with the right kind of literature should lead many pupils to wish to own books, a lesson of simple, prac tical suggestions on book buying for the individual also has a claim to inclusion in the course.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332350879
• ISBN 13: 9781332350872
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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