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Cultivating Partnerships/Realizing Diversity, Janice Simmons-Welburn, William C. Welburn
Cultivating Partnerships/Realizing Diversity, Janice Simmons-Welburn, William C. Welburn
William C Welburn
Academic librarians should not only seek methods for continuous learning about an increasingly diverse college student body, they are encouraged to pursue partnerships with campus agencies that work directly with students, especially those charged with building a diverse community of students. The authors present two examples to illustrate strategies-in-action.
The Collaborative Imperative And Information Literacy: Strategies For Librarian-Faculty Partnerships, Susan Ariew, James Eison
The Collaborative Imperative And Information Literacy: Strategies For Librarian-Faculty Partnerships, Susan Ariew, James Eison
Susan A. Ariew
This workshop, designed primarily for librarians who work with faculty in higher education or school settings, will explore constructive strategies for forming librarian/instructor partnerships. These strategies will include collaborative planning activities for library instruction sessions, ways to collaborate using course management systems, and the design of post instruction follow up activities.
Institutional Support For Librarian-Faculty Collaboration: A Personal Reflection Exercise, Susan Ariew
Institutional Support For Librarian-Faculty Collaboration: A Personal Reflection Exercise, Susan Ariew
Susan A. Ariew
This is a reflective exercise to help you consider how ready your organization and institution is in support of collaborative work between librarians and academic faculty members. Please indicate for each item below if these characteristics apply to your organization or institution.
Supplementing A Librarian's Information Literacy Toolkit With Textbooks: A Scan Of Basic Communication Course Texts, Melissa Kozel-Gain, Rick A. Stoddart
Supplementing A Librarian's Information Literacy Toolkit With Textbooks: A Scan Of Basic Communication Course Texts, Melissa Kozel-Gain, Rick A. Stoddart
Rick A Stoddart
This inquiry subjectively examines selected basic communication textbooks for information literacy concepts from the communication discipline point of view. Librarians can build on these concepts in library skills instruction sessions for first-year communication students. This analysis reveals that communication textbook authors are addressing information literacy concepts and standards with content, exercises, examples, and, most importantly, context; and the authors are often utilizing their own discipline-specific terminology to do so. Because finding, using, and evaluating information is a cornerstone of communication education and because the most successful information literacy efforts result from learning its tenets in a variety of contexts, librarians …