About the Website

About the Website Authors

This project was created by Danny Callison, Ed.D, and Annette Lamb, Ph.D. It combines resources from workshops and previous publications along with original works.

In particular, it draws on materials designed for the L551: Information Inquiry for Teacher course taught since 1992 at Indiana University and the online version of this course developed in 2003 for use at Indiana University at Indianapolis.

About the Book

Much of the website is based on materials from Key Words, Concepts and Methods for Information Age Instruction: A Guide to Teaching Information Inquiry by Daniel Callison (2003) and THE BLUE BOOK on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction, and Literacy by Daniel Callison and Leslie Preddy (2006).

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
"A revision and update of Key Words, Concepts and Methods for Information Age Instruction (2003), this text boasts a new section on inquiry, new keywords for instruction, and updated lists of print and Internet sources. Part 1 introduces the concepts of information inquiry, providing foundational documents and exploring search and use models, information literacy, standards, the instructional role of library media specialists, online inquiry learning, and resource management. Part 2 offers concrete examples of inquiry applied to the middle-school student research process and supplies reproducible pages for classroom use. Part 3 discusses and defines 51 key terms. Entries here are several pages in length and include citations and references. Indispensable for all school media specialists, this book will also appeal to other readers, who will be impressed by its well-organized design, thoroughness, and practicality." Sean Kinder
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From Booklist/Professional Reading
"A revision and update of Key Words, Concepts and Methods for Information Age Instruction (2003), this text boasts a new section on inquiry, new key words for instruction, and updated lists of print and Internet sources. Part 1 introduces the concepts of information inquiry, providing foundational documents and exploring search and use models, information literacy, standards, the instructional role of library media specialists, online inquiry learning, and resource management. Part 2 offers concrete examples of inquiry applied to the middle school student research process, and supplies reproducible pages for classroom use. Part 3 discusses and defines 51 key terms. Entries here are several pages in length and include citations and references. Indispensable for all school media specialists, this book will also appeal to other readers, who will be impressed by its well-organized design, thoroughness, and practicality."

Acknowledgments

Some photographs came from the collection of Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson.

Thanks to Leslie Preddy, SLIS-Indy graduate students, AIME members, Center for Inquiry educators, and the many other wonderful school library media specialists who have contributed ideas, resources, examples, and suggestions.

Thanks to Diana Rennels for sharing photographs of student information scientists and instructional specialists working in a wonderful learning laboratory in Indiana.