The document discusses how school libraries can help students learn in digital environments. It summarizes research showing that school libraries help students with getting information, developing information literacy skills, school work, reading interests, and independent learning. The research tracked changes in students' knowledge, feelings, and study approaches during inquiry projects. It found that students primarily increased their factual knowledge but did not deeply integrate or synthesize information. Some students took an additive approach by listing facts, while others took a more integrative approach by building explanations and conclusions.

1. FROM INFORMATION TO KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING IN DIGITAL AGE SCHOOLS Ross J. Todd School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 4 Huntington Street NEW BRUNSWICK NJ 08901 [email_address] www.cissl.scils.rutgers.edu Dept of Library and Information Science School of Communication, Information and Library Studies

5. COMPARISON OF FINDINGS (Delaware) 3.13 3.49 INDEPENDENT LEARNING 6 3.22 3.79 ACHIEVEMENT 7 3.29 4.09 READING 5 3.38 3.92 KNOWLEDGE 3 3.41 3.94 USING INFORMATION - IL 2 3.6 4.27 GETTING INFORMATION 1 3.69 4.29 COMPUTERS 4 Student Mean Faculty Mean RANK OF MEAN FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST BLOCK

6. Using Computers (Delaware) 12.6 13.4 14.9 23.2 36.0 7. The school library has helped me feel better about using computers to do my school work 10.5 10.5 13.4 22.1 43.6 6. Computer programs (like Powerpoint, Word) in the school library help me do my school work 12.4 14.2 16.3 24.5 32.6 5. The school library has helped me be more careful about information I find on the Internet 11.3 13.5 15.3 22.9 37.0 4. The school library has helped me search the Internet better 6.0 8.4 12.6 21.9 51.2 3. Computers help me find information inside and outside of the school library 15.8 14.9 15.7 21.6 32.0 2. The school library has gotten me more interested in computers 8.2 9.6 9.6 21.9 47.8 1. Computers in the school library help me do my school work better No help % A little help % Some help % Quite helpful % Most helpful % 4. How helpful the school library is with using computers in the library, at school, and at home.

19. Search Logs Students were asked to make an entry each time they read some information that they have found related to their topic. 1. Date 2. Where did you look for this information? (School library catalog/OPAC, Online, database, Print index, Search engine, Public library, Asked a person, Website, Other -Choose one of the above and write down its number.) 3. List all the terms (word or phrases) you used to look for this information. (These are the words you put into the school library catalog, or a search engine on the WWW, look up an index, or ask a person.) 4. Give the details of the source of your information (Sources can be books, journal articles, magazines, websites, CD-Rom and people such as teacher, librarian or others). Write the author, title, and date; or name of person

20. Total Number of Statements Recorded at Each Stage 82 70 29 Synthesis 116 105 48 Causality/consequence 89 58 35 Outcome 193 163 152 Reason Number of statements Number of statements Number of statements Explanation and result 343 218 143 Set membership 1514 1190 589 Manner 2160 1820 1194 Properties Number of statements Number of statements Number of statements Facts WT3 N WT2 N WT1 N Statement Type

26. Coding of Structure of Knowledge Ideas are integrated and unified; there is structural centrality. Overall, ideas are interrelated and continuous. Contiguous ideas are associated; set of ideas may be somewhat continuous. Some –meaning more than one instantiation- some ideas are joined or linked (grouped) while others are discrete or unrelated. Ideas are discrete and unrelated.

28. Estimate of Knowledge 3.2 (.76) 2.6 (.83) 1.26 (.91) Knowledge increase (mean) 126 (41 %) 47 (14 %) 10 (3 %) A great deal 148 (48 %) 156 (47 %) 41 (12 %) Quite a bit 29 (9 %) 111 (33 %) 125 (35 %) Some 6 (2 %) 14 (4 %) 142 (40%) Not much 1 (.3 %) 6 (2%) 35 (10 %) Nothing WT 3 n WT 2 n WT 1 n How much do you know about this topic?