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Lessons designed to teach students how to use research materials, online sources, and searching techniques can be rather mundane. By introducing information through games and incorporating innovative instructional activities as [...]

The changing information environment requires that library media specialists rethink how they are providing services. The article examines recent research and practical methods to assist librarians in how they can more effectively deliver information to users when and where it is needed. Creative decentralization, information dispersal, developing partnerships, and coordination of services are all presented and discussed as means by which to give libraries greater reach into their communities. A low socio-economic, urban school serves as the model on which this investigation is framed. Implications for the future are discussed., As the need for quick and convenient to access information becomes ever more important, librarians have to provide better and more efficient means for the dispersal of information to their [...]