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Open Access Challenge, Amy Dailey, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

This class activity is designed to help health sciences students understand challenges to accessing public health information in a variety of settings. The exercise was created for students in Prof. Dailey’s Global Health class (HS 322) at Gettysburg College in Fall 2015. The activity, as well as notes for instructors considering using this exercise, are both shared here.

Breathing Life Into Information Literacy Skills: Results Of A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration, Divonna M. Stebick, Janelle L. Wertzberger, Margaret E. Flora, Joseph W. Miller

Janelle Wertzberger

When an education professor and a reference librarian sought to improve the quality of undergraduate student research, their partnership led to a new focus on assessing the research process in addition to the product. In this study, we reflect on our collaborative experience introducing information literacy as the foundation for undergraduate teacher education research. We examine the outcomes of this collaboration, focusing on the assessment of the process. Using a mixed methods approach, we found that direct instruction supporting effective research strategies positively impacted student projects. Our data also suggest that undergraduate students benefit from not only sound research strategies, …

Photomicrographs, The Npr 100, And Student Teaching: Library Liaison Ideas That Really Work, Katherine Furlong, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

In 1997, Gettysburg College's Musselman Library revived a dormant liaison program. Librarians were assigned to each department and program on campus and expected to serve as the first point of library contact for the teaching faculty. Some core communications and activities emerged that we now encourage every liaison to practice; attending department meetings, sending reviews of new materials, tracking faculty book orders, and visiting faculty offices are seen as standard liaison activities. We were delighted to find that almost every librarian had some unique and interesting experiences to report. The authors collected these experiences so that they could be shared …

Information Literacy And Educ 340 At Gettysburg College, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Students' Research Process, Janelle Wertzberger, Divonna Stebick

Janelle Wertzberger

No abstract provided.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Using Clickers To Enhance Learning In The Library, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Musselman Library’s Reference & Instruction Department has an active and growing information literacy (IL) program based on faculty-librarian collaboration rather than institutional curriculum. While a few information literacy session sequences are taught within a specific course, the vast majority of instructional sessions are traditional “one-shots.”

Because formal instruction time with students is limited, instruction librarians take care to include active learning and other participatory pedagogies to improve learning and increase the likelihood that students will return to the library, the reference desk, and the library website. Incorporating personal response devices, or “clickers,” into IL sessions is another technique for engaging …