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Marginalia No. 21, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Issue Number 21: Autumn 2006

“AS THE LIBRARY SHAPES STUDENTS, STUDENTS SHAPE THE LIBRARY”-A message from Director, Linda Wolcott

LET US EAT CAKE! MERRILL-CAZIER LIBRARY IS 1-YEAR OLD!-The Library holds a birthday party.

IDEAS IN FLIGHT-Patrick Williams on a popular birdhouse exhibit by Darrin Brooks Interior Design students.

BOOKS STUDIO EXHIBIT: BASIC BINDING & BEYOND-Dennise Gackstetter describes unique book as art exhibit

MORE GALLERY SPACE: FOR STUDENT EXHIBITS- A LOT MORE INVITING EXHIBITION SPACES IN THE NEW LIBRARY

PEER MENTOR PROGRAM: VALUABLE ON-THE-JOB EXPERIENCE TO USU STUDENTS-by Flora Shrode, Head Reference.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE- Support the Library- a new gift …

Marginalia No. 20, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Issue Number 20: Spring /Summer 2006

“THE WORLD IS IN THESE WALLS” -Merrill-Cazier Library dedication reported by Patrick Williams

MERRILL-CAZIER LIBRARY DEDICATED-FROM REMARKS GIVEN BY LINDA L. WOLCOTT, VICE-PROVOST FOR LIBRARIES

JOSEY BARNES WAYMAN NAMES THE NEWS LOUNGE-Distinguished alumni’s generous gift.

MAY SWENSON STUDY LOUNGE DEDICATION-The Swenson family and USU students participate.

TANNER SYMPOSIUM’S ‘THE 1950’S, THE BEAT GENERATION, AND THE POWER OF Expression-by Brad Cole.

MERRILL-CAZIER STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION THANKS SPONSORS- A list of dedication sponsors

FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD- Reserve your brick from the old Merrill Library, help future students …

“SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS BEING BUILT IN …

Information Professional Or Caretaker Of "Old Stuff", Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis

Do archivists emphasize their role as technicians with specialized skills and knowledge or do they emphasize their role as sort of "semi-pro" historians? This debate has been around since the 1930s and is not likely to be decided any time soon. My argument is that young archivists cannot afford to take an either/or approach and must incorporate elements of both paths or risk obsolescence and/or continued low salaries.

Information Professional Or Caretaker Of "Old Stuff", Daniel Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Do archivists emphasize their role as technicians with specialized skills and knowledge or do they emphasize their role as sort of "semi-pro" historians? This debate has been around since the 1930s and is not likely to be decided any time soon. My argument is that young archivists cannot afford to take an either/or approach and must incorporate elements of both paths or risk obsolescence and/or continued low salaries.

If Not Dc, Then Mods? A Look At The Metadata Object Description Schema, Cheryl D. Walters

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

No abstract provided.

Appreciating A Pretty Shoulder: The Risquie Images Of Charles Ellis Johnson, Daniel Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Housed in the collections of the Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University is an intriguing set of risqué photographs dating roughly from 1890 to 1910. Some of the images are stereo-views or cabinet card portraits of burlesque actresses either in tights or displaying bare necks, shoulders, and upper bosoms. Other photographs in the collection are even more suggestive with women undressing, lounging about with dresses that reveal their thighs, wearing body suits, and removing one-another’s clothing. By today’s standards they are more comical than pornographic. Considering the conventions of the time, however, especially in conservative, turn-ofthe-century Utah they …

A Visual Guide To Creating Complex Publication Patterns In Endeavor's Voyager Integrated Library System, Angela Dresselhaus

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

No abstract provided.

Google As Teacher: Everything Your Students Know They Learned From Searching Google, Pamela N. Martin

Pamela N. Martin

No abstract provided.

Google As Teacher: Everything Your Students Know They Learned From Searching Google, Pamela N. Martin

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Integrating Information Literacy With A Sequenced English Composition Curriculum, Wendy Holliday, Britt A. Fagerheim

Britt Fagerheim

This article details the process of implementing a sequenced information literacy program for two core English composition courses at Utah State University. An extensive needs assessment guided the project, leading to a curriculum design process with the goal of building a foundation for deeper critical thinking skills. The curriculum development and implementation process highlights several of the advantages of using the course-integrated model of instruction to develop a more comprehensive information literacy program.

A Design-Based Research Strategy To Promote Scalability For Educational Innovations, Jody Clarke-Midura, C. Dede, D. J. Ketelhut, B. Nelson, C. Bowman

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

This article offers insights into how the design of innovations can enhance their “scalability”: the ability to adapt an innovation to effective usage in a wide variety of contexts, including settings where major conditions for success are absent or attenuated. We are implementing the River City MUVE curriculum, a technology-based innovation designed to enhance engagement and learning in middle school science, in a range of educational contexts. Based on our studies of these scaling up activities, we offer examples of design strategies for scalability and describe our plan to develop a “scalability index.”

Integrating Information Literacy With A Sequenced English Composition Curriculum, Wendy Holliday, Britt A. Fagerheim

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

This article details the process of implementing a sequenced information literacy program for two core English composition courses at Utah State University. An extensive needs assessment guided the project, leading to a curriculum design process with the goal of building a foundation for deeper critical thinking skills. The curriculum development and implementation process highlights several of the advantages of using the course-integrated model of instruction to develop a more comprehensive information literacy program.

How Everything Happens: Notes On May Swenson's Theory Of Writing, Michael Spooner

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Methodological Challenges For Identifying And Coding Diverse Knowledge Elements In Interview Data, Victor R. Lee, Moshe Krakowski, Bruce Sherin, Megan Bang, Gregory Dam

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

This paper, as part of a symposium on the analysis of clinical interview data and the development of a framework for analyzing students' intuitive science knowledge, identifies and discusses methodological challenges encountered when specifying the knowledge elements and resources are invoked dynamically during a clinical interview. Drawing from interviews with middle school students about the seasons and an analysis of knowledge in terms of 'nodes', two classes of problems are identified: those associated with identification of nodes and those associated with their application as codes to a transcript-based data corpus. We posit that these challenges are common ones associated with …