A pile of Information Literacy books

Thanks to MelCat, I have a hoard of information literacy books on my desk right now all published in the last 5 years. They cover topics such as: assessment, integrating IL into higher ed curriculum, strategies for teaching IL online, and building an IL program. The one that has quickly become my favorite is "Teaching Information Literacy: A Conceptual Approach" by Christy Gavin (2008). Christy is the coordinator of Instructional Services at California State University - Bakersfield (which is incidentally part of the University system where I am working towards my MSEd-OTL). Her chapters are relevant and logical with many exercises and examples included. The first chapter on selecting an narrowing topics is especially well done with a discussion about brainstorming, classifying and clustering. Gavin approaches it in a way that enables the instructor to interact more fully with the students which is always a good thing. Several of the chapters go more in depth than I do for my sessions. Even in my personal research I hardly ever use some of the complicated search strategies that are proposed. However, it's good to have them on hand in case a needful situation ever arose. I will definitely buy this one to add to my collection.