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Faculty Library Survey Spring 2016 Report, Bonnie R. Nelson, Ellen Sexton
Faculty Library Survey Spring 2016 Report, Bonnie R. Nelson, Ellen Sexton
Reports from John Jay College
The Library Department surveyed the John Jay College faculty on their library use in the Spring semester of 2016.
Mobile App Usage Assessment In The Academic Library, Rebecca Arzola, Stefanie Havelka
Mobile App Usage Assessment In The Academic Library, Rebecca Arzola, Stefanie Havelka
Publications and Research
This column discusses different approaches, and methods to assess app usage. In the following we exemplify mobile strategies and initiatives set up by some universities that libraries can adopt.
Information Literacy Instruction And Assessment In A Community College: A Collaborative Design, Carlos Arguelles
Information Literacy Instruction And Assessment In A Community College: A Collaborative Design, Carlos Arguelles
Publications and Research
This article describes practical steps taken in the planning of an integrated information literacy instruction linked to a course assignment for community health majors at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. The library sessions integrated the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and were based on faculty-librarian collaboration. A course outline was designed to support a step by step course project. Tools to collect evidence of student learning were designed and adjustments to the course plan and activities were made based on those assessments. Suggestions for using these tools …
Trails: Tool For Real-Time Assessment Of Information Literacy Skills, Christina Miller
Trails: Tool For Real-Time Assessment Of Information Literacy Skills, Christina Miller
Publications and Research
TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills, a product of Kent State University Libraries, free and online, aims to evaluate information literacy skills of elementary and high school students. Launched in 2006, the tool was initially funded by the Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE), an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the U.S. Department of Education. The multiple-choice, standards-based, knowledge assessment measures competencies in five information categories—topic development, identification of sources, development of search strategies, evaluation of information, and ethical uses of information—at the third-, sixth-, ninth-, and twelfth-grade benchmark …