GEN: Teaching library skills with online catalog (fwd)

[Sara Mockett <saramoc@HELEN.BUSH.EDU>]

Hi,

   I will be making a presentation at a workshop in October entitled "The
Disappearing Card Trick: how to teach library skills without the card
catalog". I will be meeting next week with the two other librarians who
will be working with me on this presentation.
   If you have a lesson that has worked for you that you would be willing
to share, it would be greatly appreciated. We are planning to put
together sample lessons for grade 2 - grade 6.  They should be lessons
that could be taught in a usual 30-40 minute class period, and they
should be adaptable to libraries with various numbers of computers. I
know myself my lesson plans with just 2 or 3 computers were somewhat
different from the lessons I can plan now with 8 computers.
   Topics we hope to cover are: searching by author, title, subject, and
keyword; Boolean logic, truncation, etc.
   If you send me a lesson that we are able to use in the workshop, we
will send you  copies  of all our workshop handouts.
   You can send sample lessons to me either by e-mail or by snail mail.
Whichever works best for you.
    This should be a fun workshop! Let's share our wonderful ideas!
    Thank you to all the marvelous people who have already shared their
creative ideas. This is a last call for anyone who has missed our
previous messages, or has been out of town, state, country.

Sara Mockett, Librarian
Seattle Country Day School
2619 4th Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109
saramoc@bush.edu