Twelve prominent K-12 educators and educator librarians share their techniques and tips for helping students become effective, life-long information users. Through a series of skillful interviews, Joyce Kasman Valenza--techlife@school columnist for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and herself a tech-savvy high school librarian--gets the experts to reveal their field-tested strategies for working with student learners and educator peers. You'll discover techniques for teaching search tool selection, evaluating result lists and Web sites, deciding when to use a professional database or the Invisible Web, and much more. This is a must-read for any teacher, librarian, or parent whose aim is to equip students with the skills and habits they will need to succeed in an information-driven society. Contents include: (1) The Information Searcher--Teaching Teachers and Librarians to Search (Pam Berger); (2) The Importance of Messing Around and Clumping (Teaching Our Youngest Searchers) (Debbie Abilock); (3) The Role of Process (Marjorie Pappas); (4) Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes for Successful Searching (David Barr); (5) Finding the Marbles, Opening the Geodes (Helping Learners Understand Through Story) (Deb Logan); (6) Searching as Metaphor (Alice Yucht); (7) Advice from the Cyberbee (Linda Joseph); (8) Thinking About Innards: Why Infrastructure Is Important (Frances Jacobson Harris); (9) High School Searching Outside the Library (Sue Fox); (10) From the Administrator's Perspective (Ken Haycock); (11) How Teacher-Librarians Should Behave (Peter Milbury); and (12) Web Guide and Diva (Kathy Schrock). Referenced Sites and Sources are appended. An index is included. [Foreword by Doug Johnson and this book was edited by Reva Basch.]