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Teaching Anxiety In Academic Librarians: Challenges To Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Presentations

ACRL's implementation of Information Literacy Standards and the integration of academic librarians into content-based, credit-bearing courses mean that academic librarians are increasingly being called upon to teach on a long-term basis. Dealing with the real and perceived challenges of preparing for the classroom environment can be distressing. If you deal with teaching anxiety, you'll be interested in the results this study.

It Takes A Village: Assisting Ronald E. Mcnair Scholars Achieve Their Academic Goals By Teaching Information Seeking Skills, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy For Branch Campuses And Branch Libraries, James Hooks, Carl Rahkonen, Christopher Clouser, Kelly Heider, Rena Fowler

Chris Clouser

Implementing An Embedded Information Literacy Program At The University Level: Best Practices, Ann Agee

Faculty and Staff Publications

Information literacy is the ability of individuals "to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (American Library Association, 1989, para. 3). At San Jose State University (SJSU), information literacy has been traditionally taught through one-shot, 50-minute lectures delivered by university librarians to students enrolled in a select few undergraduate courses. This method of instruction has proven to be neither sustainable nor effective. The lectures are not tailored by discipline and students might receive the same lecture several times while completing their lower-division coursework. SJSU wants to replace this format …

Implementing An Embedded Information Literacy Program At The University Level: Best Practices, Ann Agee

Ann Agee

Information literacy is the ability of individuals "to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (American Library Association, 1989, para. 3). At San Jose State University (SJSU), information literacy has been traditionally taught through one-shot, 50-minute lectures delivered by university librarians to students enrolled in a select few undergraduate courses. This method of instruction has proven to be neither sustainable nor effective. The lectures are not tailored by discipline and students might receive the same lecture several times while completing their lower-division coursework.SJSU wants to replace this format with …

Remaining Relevant Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

For Library Journal's annual database marketplace survey, vendior were asked what major trends will most affect the future of online products and services. Worries about declining library budgets topped the list in 2002 and 2004. Budgets are still up there, but even bigger issues dominate in 2007.

Evidence In The Literature: Efficiently Searching The Collective Knowledge, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Search effectively. Search efficiently. Find the evidence you need as a healthcare professional to provide the best care to patients. This session will include timesaving tips and tricks to identify and access relevant literature for the decision-making process. A healthcare provider must focus on integrating appropriate evidence with expert knowledge and patient needs; a librarian can help healthcare providers cut through the static and find the best resources. Join this session to discuss the most useful types of literature, pertinent research databases, effective search strategies, and methods for getting your hands on the resources you need.

Derailing Anxiety In Academic Library Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Presentations

What We’ll Cover • What is Teaching Anxiety? • Why study Teaching Anxiety (TA)? • Methodology and details of the study • Results of the study • Emerging solutions to TA in librarians • Discussion: your experiences & comments

Spring 2007, Billington Library

Library Newsletter

Note from Dr. Larry Tyree (interim president of JCCC), a note on National Library Week, feature on the photographs of Mark Daganaar, and a note on donations in memory of Russell Henry Meier. Reviews of Higher Education in the Internet Age (reviewed by Wayne Brown), United We Read selection for 2007 The Final Solution (reviewed by Andrea Kempf), and Pegasus Descending (reviewed by Mary Doherty and Laurie Allen).

Developing Partnerships That Assist Mcnair & Sss Students Achieve Academically, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Library Mashups For The Virtual Campus: Using Web 2.0 Tools To Create A New Current Awareness Service, Linda Absher, Adriene Lim, Kerry Wu

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article explores the ways academic libraries can exploit Web 2.0 technologies and techniques to create Current Awareness Service (CAS) mashups for campus virtual environments. Described are Portland State University Library's efforts to create a CAS site called "Topic Watch;" the criteria used to select humanities and business content for the project; and an overview of the technology employed to combine data from disparate sources into the service. Also summarized are the challenges and issues the library faced during development and future steps to be taken to incorporate the new resource into the campus virtual environment.

Information Literacy And Information Seeking Behavior Among Business Majors, Casey Long, Milind Shrikhande

University Library Faculty Publications

The current generation of college students has used the Internet to access information since the early 1990s. No assessment of information use, quality, variety, and reliability of information generally occurs at both the student and faculty level. In this paper we use a package of teaching methods targeted towards improving information-seeking behavior among graduate and undergraduate business majors. The effectiveness of the teaching package is assessed through an evaluation of student term-papers and quality of resources used. We find that the package of teaching methods implemented does result in significant improvement in information seeking behavior, especially among undergraduate business majors.

Editors’ Note: The Need For Media And Information Literacy In Graduate Education, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Communication Faculty Publications

Media and information literacy perspectives could offer new justification for the expansion of graduate program offerings in a variety of fields. The interdisciplinary field of media and information literacy continues to discover new paths of research. For example, visual literacy, computer advertisements, critical deconstruction of media, distance education, convergence, video games and music videos were some of the topics explored in 2006.

Classroom/Library Faculty Collaboration To Teach Critical Thinking, Kathryn Waggoner, Patricia Parker, Brian Ryckman, Wolfgang Friedlmeier, William Crawley

Kathryn L Waggoner

No abstract provided.

Collaborating With Colleagues: Promoting Visual Literacy Across The Curriculum, Kristina Keogh, John Glover

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

As new subject area librarians (for the Arts and Humanities respectively) at Virginia Commonwealth University interested in collaborative possibilities, we intend to demonstrate a plan for integrating visual literacy into traditional information literacy programs, including introductory library orientation sessions. This virtual poster will report on efforts at ARL libraries to coordinate these activities and hopefully emphasize to instruction librarians the increasingly important role of visual resources and of the need to have enough experience with them to help patrons using library and other resources to locate images. Visual image databases, Internet resources, and local digital collections will be highlighted for …

Complex Questions, Evolving Answers: Creating A Multidimensional Assessment Strategy To Build Support For The “Teaching Library”, P. S. Mcmillen, A. M. Deitering

Library Faculty Publications

Since 2001, librarians at Oregon State University's Valley Library have been working to build a "teaching library" supported by a clearly articulated instruction program. From the start, we believed that we needed to assess the teaching library's impact, not only to determine the success or failure of our efforts but also to demonstrate the need for intentional, proactive in formation literacy instruction on our campus. No single assessment tool or method proved adequate to effectively measure student learning happening both inside and outside the library. We describe our evolving, multi-pronged approach to measuring the impact of the library on student …

Anchoring Assignment Design: A Faculty Workshop, Claire A. Clemens, Kathy E. Clarke

Libraries

No abstract provided.

Takin’ It To The Streets: Quantitative Literacy, Public Policy, And Gis In A Service Context, Jeremy W. Donald

Library Faculty Research

Improved information literacy and quantitative literacy can help individuals overcome the information costs that discourage political participation and policy debate. Using place and public data as a touchstone, the students of a college political science course partnered with a group of middle school students to apply technology to a shared project. Together they learned techniques for representing demographic and geographic data with a variety of media, including Web 2.0 tools and GIS software. They created an online site designed to address the information needs of the local community, with a focus on promoting users’ information and quantitative literacy and encouraging …

Mmm...Vanillin: Reaching Graduate Students Through Ice Cream Seminars, Jeremy R. Garritano

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

While there is no required chem. literature course for graduate students at Purdue University, a series of library ice cream seminars is offered throughout the semester as an alternative. These seminars are targeted toward new graduate students to help them adjust to the wide variety of library resources now available to them. Each seminar is focused on either a particular resource (SciFinder Scholar, Beilstein, etc.) or a topical theme (patents, citation searching, spectral information, etc.). Implementation of the seminar series will be explained as well as content presented and effective marketing methods. Results of evaluations and future directions will also …

Providing For Graduate Student Information Needs At A Large Research University, Jeremy R. Garritano

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Graduate students at a large research university often have many information needs-from choosing a research advisor, to creating and pursuing their research agenda, to deciding on where to go after graduation. In addition., many of them have insufficient information seeking skills. The M.G. Mellon Library of Chem. at Purdue U. attempts to address many of these issues by the focused and proactive provision of resources and services to graduate students. Besides instructing graduate students on common chem. information resources, the staff of the Chem. Library provides additional services, such as after-hours access and assistance with bibliographic management software, to enhance …

Ice Cream Seminars For Graduate Students: Imparting Chemical Information Literacy, Jeremy R. Garritano

Libraries Research Publications

This article provides information on a chemical information literacy program designed primarily for new graduate students. The full implementation of this program is discussed, including defining its purpose, topics covered, content presented, methods of marketing, and evaluation. The result is a series of voluntary seminars given biweekly throughout the academic year. Seminars are based either around a particular resource or database or are centered on a topical problem that may be addressed using multiple resources. Evaluations show that graduate students are pleased with the seminars, including content covered and the format. Areas for future development and experimentation are also suggested.

Library Annual Report

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Communication In The 21st Century: Trends And Issues, James Neal, James Pringle, Bob Stein, Ann M. Bartow

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Show Me What You Mean: Visual Literacy And The Academic Library, Nora Hillyer, Audrey Defrank

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This poster features The Visually Literate Student; Visual vs. Information Literacy; Visual Literacy Defined; Libraries; Collaboration; and Sources.

The Irish Working Group On Information Literacy: A Cross-Sectoral Approach, Philip Russell, Terry O'Brien

Articles

The Working Group on Information Literacy (WGIL) was established by the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) in January 2006 to recommend strategies for the development of information skills at both a theoretical and practical level in the Library and Information Services sector in Ireland.

From the outset, one of the key objectives established was that the work of the WGIL would be approached on a cross-sectoral basis.

Membership of the group comprises ten members from across the range of LIS (Library and Information Services) sectors in Ireland. These include academic, special, schools, public, health and university sectors, and also a …

Utilizing Focus Groups To Evaluate An Information Literacy Program In A General Biology Course, Betsy S. Hopkins

Faculty Publications

The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University (BYU) recently implemented a number of information literacy strategies to help students in Biology 100, a large general education class, find resources for their term assignment. The library's services for Biology 100 students were evaluated using focus groups composed of both teaching assistants and students. This paper will describe the class and the assignment, discuss the impact the class had on library staff, detail the efforts of the staff to meet the needs of Biology 100 students, and present results of focus groups used to evaluate the library's outreach and teaching …

Exploding Head Syndrome: Engaging Students Through Real-Life Examples, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Although students have a difficult time verbalizing why a source is reliable and scholarly (or why it is not), they often declare the information as good or bad with ease, and are often correct in their determination. The struggle becomes great when they must determine when enough information is enough. In this session, attendees will learn of some real-life examples that can be worked through with students to illustrate when and why finding more information is a good idea. The main example centers on nursing undergraduates and embedded Information Literacy sessions in their foundation classes. Most of these students are …

Meet Your Librarian – Again, And Again And Again!, Aimee Dechambeau

Aimee deChambeau

A brief case study highlighting ways in which the library became an integral part of a journalism program based on shared interests in information and news literacy.

Information Literacy Skills Of International Students From Japan Studying At Atlantic Canadian Universities, Yusuke Fitzgibbons, V Howard, H Moukdad

Yusuke Fitzgibbons (Ishimura)

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy For Branch Campuses And Branch Libraries, James Hooks, Carl Rahkonen, Chris Clouser, Kelly Heider, Rena Fowler

Kelly Heider