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Democratic Belonging As Informed Citizenry - Empowering Faculty To Empower Learners Via Information Literacy, Anna Santucci, Amanda K. Izenstark, Mary C. Macdonald

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation at the AAC&U 2022 Annual Meeting as a Pre-Meeting Workshop.

Responsible citizens need the agility to navigate a changing information landscape. Intentionally designing learning experiences that integrate accessible Information Literacy (IL) skills for all students is a crucial step towards educational justice, a paramount responsibility in the democratic mission of our institutions. With this goal, the University of Rhode Island’s Office for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has partnered with instruction librarians since 2018 in developing and facilitating a High Impact Teaching Seminar for faculty. Participants will learn about the seminar’s theoretical framework, impact and structure, engage in …

Murray Library March 2020 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Friends of Murray Library
• Upcoming Events: Trivia Night and Human Library
• Spotlight with Friends' President, Harriet Bicksler

Murray Library February 2020 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Mosaic updates
• Student/Educator survey comments
• Spotlight with student, Erin Mackenzie
• Photos of December's CrafTea and January's Civil Rights display

Where Do You Turn? Student-Identified Resources In The Basic Course Experience, Sources Of Information, Feedback, And Help-Seeking Behaviors, Ashley Jones-Bodie, Lindsey B. Anderson, Jennifer Hall

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study explored the formal and informal resources students enrolled in a basic communication course use to gather information and receive feedback about their course experience, including presentations and work in the class. To do so, an online survey was completed by 393 students at three universities. The data were analyzed thematically using an iterative process facilitated through NVivo coding software. This process not only allowed for a descriptive summary of the students’ responses and the creation of a typology of resources, but also revealed four emergent themes related to student motivations to seek out and use sources of information/feedback: …

Navigating Tenure-Track As A Female Faculty Of Color: Challenges, Insights, And Personal Experiences, Michele A.L. Villagran, Shamika D. Dalton

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Murray Library December 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Student and Faculty satisfaction survey quotes
• Recap of Clue
• List of Christmas resources in the library
• Meet student worker, Miriam Dixon
• December exhibits and performances

Murray Library November 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• New print resources
• Staff Spotlight: Sarah Myers
• Recap of Open Access Week
• Recap of Friends Annual Dinner
• November exhibits:Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote

Murray Library October 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Trivia Night
• Updates on Learning Commons website
• New Cafe announcement monitor
• Student Art Contest
• Staff Spotlight: Sharon Berger
• October Library Exhibits
• Reducing the Second Tuition for Students

Murray Library September 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Geek the Library
• Friends of Murray Library
• Exhibits: Kathy Hettinga Artists' Books
• Banned Book Week
• Staff Spotlight: Keith Jones

Murray Library May 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Highlights of AY19
• Exam Cram stress relief
• Supporting Cross Cultural courses: Beth Transue
• Staff Spotlight: Liz Kielley
• Friends of Murray Library: benefits of membership

Murray Library April 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Trivia Night
• Mini Golf in the Stacks
• Staff strengths
• Marvel Becoming: Sharon Berger
• Staff Spotlight: Brian Frank
• Print vs. Ebook preferences by students
• Human Library

Murray In A Hurry Fy19, Murray Library, Sarah K. Myers

Library Publications

Murray Library at Messiah College created a unique marketing tool called Murray in a Hurry. This newsletter is typically distributed every two weeks and is hung in all bathroom stalls. It provides information on library events, new materials, literary quotes, grammar, and humor.

This combined document includes all issues during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Murray Library March 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• New book additions
• Staff Spotlight: Lawrie Merz
• Display featuring book art by Dannielle Vincent and Artists' Books from Professor Forsythe's class

Murray Library February 2019 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Open Access Civil Rights Tour display
• Staff Spotlight: Kimberly Steiner
• Recommended reading: Amanda Flagle
• Recent publication by Sarah Myers and Melinda Burchard

Murray Library Fall 2018 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

What's new at the library? News and information about Murray Library at Messiah College written by its staff.

Contents:

• Navigating the library offices and spaces
• Making room reservations
• Geek the Library recap
• Staff Spotlight: Linda Poston
• 2017-2018 Statistics

Post-Conflict News And Information Needs Of West African Farmers: Voices From Côte D’Ivoire And Mali, Assoumane A. Maiga, M. Craig Edwards, Marshall A. Baker, D. Dwayne Cartmell Ii, Joel M. Jenswold

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education

During the decades following the independence of Sub-Saharan African countries, many. Farmers were severely affected by armed conflicts. News and information providers could provide important support toward the economic recovery of these farmers and the rebuilding of their communities. This qualitative study sought to explore farmers’ perceptions on the role of media and other sources in disseminating news and information after armed conflicts ceased in Côte d’Ivoire and in Mali. The study involved10 key informants, five from each country. Rigorous qualitative research procedures were used to collect and analyze the study’s data. Six themes emerged from the interviews. Farmers perceived …

Spectators Or Patriots? Citizens In The Information Age, Amrita Dhawan

Publications and Research

In theory, a strong democracy rests on robust citizen participation. The practice in most democracies is quite different. This gap presents a challenge, which can be narrowed by augmenting civic education to bring it up to date with the current information environment and thus give citizens the opportunity to participate. Robert Dahl’s work on democracy provides a model that looks at this problem structurally. He writes about the ideals and the actual institutions necessary for a democracy and if we situate his model in the modern information environment we get a better idea of how to improve civic education. Successful …

Separating Wheat From Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy, Trudi E. Jacobson, Beth Mark

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Many traditional first-year students arrive on college and university campuses with a great deal of experience in searching the Internet. In fact, they can find prodigious amounts of information with relative ease—as evidenced by the lists of Web sites used to document many of their research papers. Most of these students, however, lack the critical-thinking skills and database-searching proficiency necessary for them to fine-tune their information searches. They need to know how to focus their topics, where (in addition to the Internet) to search, and how to evaluate and use the information they retrieve—skills commonly encompassed in the phrase “information …

Our Horatio Alger House, Justin J. Hartman

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

Teaching Anxious Students Skills For The Electronic Library, Beth Mark, Trudi E. Jacobson

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Some students immediately feel at home in today's technology-saturated library, but many others have difficulty navigating the myriad of electronic sources in most academic libraries. It is estimated that as many as one-third of the college students in the United States suffer from technophobia and are anxious about using computers. In addition to coping with computer technology, many first-year college students are intimidated by the size and complexity of academic libraries (Mellon 1986). In short, just when students most need to become competent users of information technology, anxieties can cause them to avoid the library altogether (Warmkessel 1992).

Breaking the …

Cedarville: A Tribute To Our Heritage, 100th Year Labor Day Committee

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

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Cedarville: At The Crossroads Of Ohio...A Community To Call Home, Cedarville Area Chamber Of Commerce

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

Cedarville United Presbyterian Church: Centennial Of The Sanctuary, 1889-1980, Cedarville United Presbyterian Church

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

A Cumulative Report For The Preservation And Restoration Of The Cedarville Opera House, Jeff A. Subra

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

History Of The Cedarville Presbyterian Church, Florence J. Williamson

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

Cedarville, Ohio In Historic Greene County, Cedarville Community Development Committee

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

A Historical Sketch Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church General Synod, Robert Waldo Chesnut

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

Cedarville, Ohio: An Ideal Town For Factory Sites, Cedarville Commercial Club

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: James Lyons Chesnut, D.D., L.A. Benson

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.

1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir, Cedarville Centennial Committee

Cedarville, Ohio, Historical Information

No abstract provided.