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Urban Academic Library Outreach To Secondary School Students And Teachers, M. Delores Carlito
Urban Academic Library Outreach To Secondary School Students And Teachers, M. Delores Carlito
Urban Library Journal
The Mervyn H. Sterne Library at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is located in an urban area and therefore receives traffic from the community, particularly area schools. We encourage visits from these schools in order to promote information literacy, higher education, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and we recognize the importance of the library in the development of responsible citizenship, education, and culture. Since we encourage students to develop research skills before they attend college, we collaborate with area secondary schools on projects, papers, and activities by providing research instruction and support both at the schools and …