vi, 258 pages : 24 cm

This work offers the practicing librarian innovative approaches to effectively integrating critical thinking into their instruction programs

Includes bibliographical references and index

The evolution of critical thinking skills in library instruction, 1986-2006: a selected and annotated bibliography and review of selected programs / Erin L. Ellis and Kara M. Whatley -- Promoting critical thinking skills in online information literacy instruction using a constructivist approach / Maryellen Allen -- Finding a Socratic method for information literacy instruction / Nicholas Schiller -- Step by step through the scholarly conversation: a collaborative library/writing faculty project to embed information literacy and promote critical thinking in first year composition at Oregon State University / Anne-Marie Deitering and Sara Jameson -- Advanced critical thinking and information literacy skills in first year college students / Mark Alfino, Michele Pajer, Linda Pierce, and Kelly O'Brien Jenks -- Modeling scholarly inquiry: one article at a time / Anne Marie Gruber, Mary Anne Knefel, and Paul Waelchli -- Critical thinking is a life relevancy: a Hospitality Management student case study / Monica Berger -- Information literacy in subject-specific vocabularies: a path to critical thinking / Linda Heichman Taylor -- Using Bloom's taxonomy to teach critical thinking skills to Business students / Nancy Nentl and Ruth Zietlow -- You can lead students to sources, but can you make them think? / Pamela Hayes-Bohanan and Elizabeth Spievak -- We won't be fooled again: teaching critical thinking via evaluation of hoax and historical revisionist websites in a library credit course / Stephanie M. Mathson and Michael G. Lorenzen -- Learning more about how they think: information literacy instruction in a campus-wide critical thinking project / Corey M. Johnson, Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, and Scott Walter

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