Library Guidance Methods and Strategies

Author: Lin Yunzhuo
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Libraries should cooperate with subject teachers to organize diverse reading activities, provide extracurricular reading guidance for students, and conduct courses on library and information education. This includes introducing library and book knowledge, teaching the use of reference materials, selecting books, reading methods, and reading hygiene. Schools should offer reading guidance courses and incorporate them into the teaching plan. Schools with the necessary conditions should also establish electronic reading guidance courses to teach students how to properly use electronic reading systems. — Ministry of Education, "Procedures for Primary and Secondary School Libraries"
This book is highly targeted and practical. In its content arrangement, it emphasizes both basic reading guidance knowledge and excellent examples, closely integrating theory with practical experience. It provides theoretical insights into reading guidance methods and strategies for library guidance workers while offering clear practical value, making it ready to use. This helps reading guidance activities and reader services start at a high level, striving to develop unique characteristics and quickly move toward scientific and institutionalized development. — You Jingdang, Chairman and Associate Librarian of the Wuxi Secondary School Library Association
The reading guidance work of the library at South China Normal University Affiliated High School is highly recognized in the field of secondary school libraries. This book is based on the school's reading guidance experimental courses and references a large amount of domestic and international material. It consists of seven chapters. Chapters and two introduce the basic theories and foundational work of library reading guidance. Chapters three, four, and five delve into the content of reading guidance work. Chapters six and seven introduce modern library reading guidance techniques and course-based reading guidance methods and strategies. The book combines theoretical discussions with numerous experience summaries and case studies, providing theoretical knowledge and actionable materials for reading guidance activities. It helps colleagues in primary and secondary school libraries clarify the requirements of reading guidance work, learn reading guidance knowledge, master methods and strategies, and actively participate in school-based curriculum development.
This book is the national training textbook for primary and secondary school library positions and can also serve as a reference for students and teachers in library and information management programs at universities and colleges.