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Successfully Completing College: Developing Integrated Information Literacy Skills Planning Project, Adrianna Lancaster, Sharon Morrison
Successfully Completing College: Developing Integrated Information Literacy Skills Planning Project, Adrianna Lancaster, Sharon Morrison
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Academic Library Services For Users With Developmental Disabilities: Partnership Of Access And Syracuse University Libraries, Adina Mulliken, Ann Atkins
Academic Library Services For Users With Developmental Disabilities: Partnership Of Access And Syracuse University Libraries, Adina Mulliken, Ann Atkins
Publications and Research
Syracuse University Library and Access partnered to provide library orientations to six Syracuse University students who have developmental disabilities. Access is a service that supports college course attendance for students who have developmental or cognitive disabilities. Students with developmental disabilities are being included in college life more and more. As this occurs, academic libraries will be providing more services to this population. We hope Syracuse University’s experience will be useful for other libraries to build on as they develop services. Additionally, we discuss opportunities to improve services for all students by focusing on students with developmental disabilities.
Using Technology To Support Faculty And Enhance Coursework In Academic Institutions, Jeremy W. Donald
Using Technology To Support Faculty And Enhance Coursework In Academic Institutions, Jeremy W. Donald
Library Faculty Research
The article offers tips on how use technology to support faculty and to enhance coursework in academic institutions in Texas. It states that communication and trust building are the first step to successful collaborations. Moreover, learning goals of the faculty member for the assignment must be determined. Furthermore, parameters and limitations of the project must also be determined.
Cultivating The Librarian Within: Effectively Lntegrating Library Lnstruction Into Freshman Composition, Jesse Ulmer, Nancy E. Fawley
Cultivating The Librarian Within: Effectively Lntegrating Library Lnstruction Into Freshman Composition, Jesse Ulmer, Nancy E. Fawley
Library Faculty Publications
It has become common practice for library instruction to be included in lower-level college composition courses. Students are typically required to visit the library once or twice a semester to receive instruction on how to find books and journal articles for an upcoming writing assignment that incorporates formal research. But does this current model of instruction truly address course outcomes that seek to produce students who are information literate, critical thinkers and life-long learners? Faculty who teach such courses are often reluctant to surrender precious class time to a librarian, but this paper argues that the merging of bibliographic instruction …