Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Crowdsourcing Course Design: Tapping The Collective Intelligence Of Campus Stakeholders, Patrick Griffis, Steven Hoover

Scholarship Colloquium

Background

• UNLV General Education Reform

– led to First Year Experience Course in College of Business

• Course taught by advisors in College Of Business

• Collaboration between Librarians and BUS103

• Libraries hosted Faculty Institute for First Year Seminars

– Collaborative course design with business instructors, civic engagement and student success professionals, technology specialists, and librarians

Juvenile Literature E-Books In A Curriculum Materials Library Setting: Love Them Or Leave Them?, Amy L. Johnson

Scholarship Colloquium

So What's The Problem?
CML’s juvenile literature collection serves a three-fold purpose

• Supporting academic study of children’s/young adult literature

• Leisure reading collection

• Providing materials for use by CCSD teachers and students

Which means…

• Amazon’s e-book sales (and other info.) can guide leisure reading trends

• BUT…we also need input and buy-in from UNLV instructors and CCSD teachers

Academic Libraries And English Composition Programs: A Literature Review Of Current Trends, Erin E. Rinto

Scholarship Colloquium

This literature review examines a sampling of the last ten years of research on the relationships between academic libraries and English Composition Programs in an effort to uncover potential methods for a new collaboration between the Lied Library and the English Composition Program at UNLV. Three general trends are identified and discussed in terms of their strengths and weaknesses for local implementation.