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Academic Librarianship: Changing Roles In The Digital Age, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu
Academic Librarianship: Changing Roles In The Digital Age, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu
Faculty and Staff Publications
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An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind
An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind
Faculty and Staff Publications
Librarians, faculty, and assessment specialists at James Madison University (JMU) collaborated to develop an online Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) to measure competencies relating to information literacy. In this paper we will report on how we developed and implemented the test as a required competency for all first-year students in General Education. We will also report on test results, challenges in implementing a competency test for all freshmen, our training program for faculty, and our remediation program.
Storytelling, Folktales And The Comic Book Format, Gail De Vos
Storytelling, Folktales And The Comic Book Format, Gail De Vos
Faculty Publications
The reading process in comics is an extension of text. In text alone the process of reading involves word-to-image conversion. Comics accelerate that by providing the image. When properly executed, it goes beyond conversion and speed and becomes a seamless whole. In every sense, this misnamed form of reading is entitled to be regarded as literature because the images are employed as a language. There is a recognizable relationship to the iconography and pictographs of oriental writing. When this language is employed as a conveyance of ideas and information, it separates itself from mindless visual entertainment. This makes comics a …
Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock
Role Clarification And Role Dilemmas: New Challenges For Teacher-Librarians?, Ken Haycock
Faculty Publications
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