IssueWeb A Guide and Sourcebook for Researching Controversial Issues on the Web

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Children's & Young Adult School Services
• Library & Information Science » Children's & Young Adult School Services -- Educational Technology

Reviews:

• The work's research guide is its most valuable piece, and the issue summaries and keyword suggestions its most unique offerings. Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates.
  —Choice November 2004
• [T]he book is well structured to easily facilitate the creation of an Internet researching class. As such it could be a good tool for any teacher or librarian planning a similar class. Students needing hints on where to go for information will find the brief overviews and list of web sources a handy and timesaving feature. This book would be a great resource for a high school or undergraduate library, or even an individual instructor's library.
  —E-Streams May 2005
• As a guide to quality Web sites on controversial issues, IssueWeb is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and librarians....IssueWeb fills a niche by focusing on current controversial issues, which most undergraduates and high school students need to research for their term papers....This book is highly recommended for undergraduate and high school libraries.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Spring 2005
• Starred Review As more and more students increasingly utilize the resources of the Web and as librarians and teachers diligently guide students to reliable sources on the Internet, this book will be a valuable resource for most middle, junior, ans senior high librarians....Highly recommended.
  —Library Media Connection January 2005
• A veritable gold mine of more than 40 well-organized, well-presented issues briefs follows three remarkably clear, concise chapters on finding, evaluating, and incorporating Internet resources. Using experience gleaned from teaching students onlie to research the Web, the authors introduce topics such as browsing, narrowing, assessing needs, and selecting tools and terminology, e.g., Boolean and other symbologies. They do an excellent job of taking readers through steps needed to evaluate each resource's value for the project, and then to put it all together with helpful instructions for citations and plagiarism avoidance....This easy-to-use, easy-to-reference book is a godsend for those are able to incorporate controversial issues into their research instruction. While sites, of course, are subject to change, most seem to to have relative permanence so the book should retain relevance for some time to come.
  —School Library Journal September 2004

Table of Contents:

• Guide to Issues Research
• Finding Resources
• Evaluating Your Resources
• Incorporating Your Resources
• Issue Briefs
• Appendix A: Opinion Magazines
• Appendix B: Think Tanks
• Appendix C: Proprietary Databases

PDF Catalogs:

LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf

PDF Brochures:

Information Literacy.pdf