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Developing Core Competencies For Library Staff, Dennis Smith, Jesse Hurd, Leetta Schmidt
Developing Core Competencies For Library Staff, Dennis Smith, Jesse Hurd, Leetta Schmidt
Dennis J Smith
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Your Library Instruction Is In Another Castle: Developing Information Literacy Based Video Games At Carnegie Mellon University, Donna Beck, Rachel Callison, John Fudrow, Dan Hood
Your Library Instruction Is In Another Castle: Developing Information Literacy Based Video Games At Carnegie Mellon University, Donna Beck, Rachel Callison, John Fudrow, Dan Hood
Rachel Callison
Being part of an institution possessing a world-renowned computer science school and a reputation for developing innovative new technologies, the University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon were motivated to explore a new method of information literacy instruction. This method was to be the creation of a web-based video game. Through a $50,000 grant from the Buhl Foundation, awarded in the Spring of 2006, the University Libraries began developing a series of “web-based instructional modules." [1] The University Libraries soon formed a representative group of three librarians, self-dubbed the Library Arcade (LA) Committee, to help define how to best transmute the goals …