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Research Practices Survey 2015-16, Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Research Practices Survey 2015-16, Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Staff and Faculty Work
2015 marks the first year of Carleton's participation in the Research Practices Survey sponsored by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS). The HEDS Consortium is comprised of a nationwide group of private colleges and universities, who collaboratively collect and share data institutional data.
The HEDS Research Practices Survey is uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) competency standards in information literacy to assess student information literacy as well as student research experience. The five-section survey takes roughly fifteen minutes to complete.
Entering first year students were asked to take this survey at the beginning of fall term, …
From Data To Creation Of Meaning Part Ii: Data Librarian As Translator, Kristin Partlo
From Data To Creation Of Meaning Part Ii: Data Librarian As Translator, Kristin Partlo
Staff and Faculty Work
While institutions, methodology and geography all present barriers for communication and development of infrastructure, sometimes the greatest barriers may be in reaching not across the world but across the hallway. Engaging in the work of unified infrastructure requires finding language that bridges modes of inquiry and meaning, so that all participants see their place in the whole. This work of finding shared language involves translation at many levels. Data librarians know that not everyone means the same thing by ‘data’ and increasingly they seek language that spans the practices of social science, sciences, humanities, and performing arts. This paper aims …
Situating Information Literacy Within The Curriculum: Using A Rubric To Shape A Program, Iris Jastram, Danya Leebaw, Heather Tompkins
Situating Information Literacy Within The Curriculum: Using A Rubric To Shape A Program, Iris Jastram, Danya Leebaw, Heather Tompkins
Staff and Faculty Work
Rubrics are rapidly growing subfield of information literacy assessment, providing a powerful tool for understanding student learning. This paper explores the role that the creation and application of an information literacy rubric can play in program development. Because of the information literacy instruction have opened up, we have begun the long progress of arriving at a shared understanding of information literacy on campus, and our information literacy program is better integrated with campus-wide goals.
Csi(L) Carleton: Forensic Librarians And Reflective Practices, Danya Leebaw, Heather Tompkins, Iris Jastram
Csi(L) Carleton: Forensic Librarians And Reflective Practices, Danya Leebaw, Heather Tompkins, Iris Jastram
Staff and Faculty Work
Reference Librarians at Carleton College engage in an Information Literacy in Student Writing assessment project, reading papers submitted to the College's Sophomore Writing Portfolio against a rubric of information literacy habits of mind. These librarians reflect on the ways that this project has influenced their collaborations with faculty and their information literacy instruction. Emphasizing a “habits of mind” approach rather than a skill set approach, these librarians are remapping their practice in ways that resonate more strongly with faculty and students across disciplines and courses on our campus.
Information Research Practices, Fall 2010 – Pretest Summary Results, Jackie Lauer-Glebov
Information Research Practices, Fall 2010 – Pretest Summary Results, Jackie Lauer-Glebov
Staff and Faculty Work
Jackie Lauer-Glebov presented Information Research Practices Survey Results
The Pedagogical Data Reference Interview, Kristin Partlo
The Pedagogical Data Reference Interview, Kristin Partlo
Staff and Faculty Work
This essay reflects on the reference interview on several levels. If we accept that academic reference in general has a pedagogical role, then it is necessary to adjust the standard model of the reference interview to reflect that value. Within the specific context of academic data reference, undergraduates as a group require more instruction during the reference interview because they are less prepared than graduate students and faculty to ask for what they need. A strict service model does not meet their needs. A successful model appropriately balances the tension between instruction and service. This balance will vary from one …
Research Practices Survey Project 2006-07, Carolyn Sandford, Jo Beld, Nancy Millinchamp, Ann Zawistoski, Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Research Practices Survey Project 2006-07, Carolyn Sandford, Jo Beld, Nancy Millinchamp, Ann Zawistoski, Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Staff and Faculty Work
The Gould library has taken a lead role in a MITC / NITLE grant to create a web-based assessment tool to measure the information literacy of incoming students, before they've had any college library instruction. This grant-funded project was originally called the First Year Information Literacy in the Liberal Arts Assessment (FYILLAA), and has since become a nationally administered survey called the Research Practices Survey.
The first full implementation of the survey happened in late summer and early fall 2005. Five of the schools, Carleton, University of Chicago, Grinnell, Macalester, and St. Olaf, had high enough response rates to allow …
Crossing Boundaries: Collaborating To Assess Information Literacy [Acrl Conference], Carolyn Sanford, Jo Beld, Nancy Millichap
Crossing Boundaries: Collaborating To Assess Information Literacy [Acrl Conference], Carolyn Sanford, Jo Beld, Nancy Millichap
Staff and Faculty Work
Carolyn Sanford, Jo Beld and Nancy Millichap gave presentation given at the 2007 ACRL conference session.
Integrating Bibliographic Software, Database Searching, And Molecular Modeling In An Introductory Biology Course, Charles Priore, John Giannini
Integrating Bibliographic Software, Database Searching, And Molecular Modeling In An Introductory Biology Course, Charles Priore, John Giannini
Staff and Faculty Work
Librarians instruct students where to find information, but rarely demonstrate its management, while faculty have difficulty incorporating real-time laboratory experience with library research. This paper focuses on the development of a hands-on biology laboratory experiment in an introductory course that integrates bibliographic software into the lab. The pedagogical and technical issues involved are discussed.
A Study Of Metadata Element Co-Occurrence, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram
A Study Of Metadata Element Co-Occurrence, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram
Staff and Faculty Work
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co-occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages accurately.
Crossing Boundaries: Collaborating To Assess Information Literacy [Aac&U Conference], Carolyn Sanford, Jackie Lauer-Glebov, David Lopatto, Jo Beld
Crossing Boundaries: Collaborating To Assess Information Literacy [Aac&U Conference], Carolyn Sanford, Jackie Lauer-Glebov, David Lopatto, Jo Beld
Staff and Faculty Work
Carolyn Sanford, Jackie Lauer-Glebov, David Lopatto and Jo Beld presentation at the AAC&U Conference, March 2006
A Study Of The Metadata Creation Behavior Of Different User Groups On The Internet, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram
A Study Of The Metadata Creation Behavior Of Different User Groups On The Internet, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram
Staff and Faculty Work
Metadata is designed to improve information organization and information retrieval effectiveness and efficiency on the Internet. The way web publishers respond to metadata and the way they use it when publishing their web pages, however, is still a mystery. The authors of this paper aim to solve this mystery by defining different professional publisher groups, examining the behaviors of these user groups, and identifying the characteristics of their metadata use. This study will enhance the current understanding of metadata application behavior and provide evidence useful to researchers, web publishers, and search engine designers.
Discipline-Based Information Literacy: Experience, Themes And Recommendations, Carolyn Sanford, Mary Savina
Discipline-Based Information Literacy: Experience, Themes And Recommendations, Carolyn Sanford, Mary Savina
Staff and Faculty Work
In 2000 Carleton received a three-year Mellon grant to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, focusing on the 5 discipline majors: Classical Languages, Economics, English, Geology and History.
Carolyn from Library and Mary from Geology presented their experience, themes and recommendations at Minnesota Library Association October 7, 2004.
Slow Fires Still Burn: Results Of A Preservation Assessment Of Libraries In L’Viv, Ukraine, And Sofia, Bulgaria, Brian J. Baird, Bradley L. Schaffner
Slow Fires Still Burn: Results Of A Preservation Assessment Of Libraries In L’Viv, Ukraine, And Sofia, Bulgaria, Brian J. Baird, Bradley L. Schaffner
Staff and Faculty Work
East Central European libraries face a serious threat of the potential disintegration of the vast majority of Slavic publications printed in the twentieth century. This loss will come as result of the combination of inferior materials used to produce most twentieth-century Slavic publications and inadequate facilities to house these collections. In an effort to gain a better understanding of the condition of Slavic publications, over the past two years, the authors have conducted collection condition surveys and reviewed the preservation operations of three major academic libraries in L’viv, Ukraine, and Sofia, Bulgaria. This paper presents the results of these surveys.
Mellon Information Literacy Initiative Grant Report (2000-2003), Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Mellon Information Literacy Initiative Grant Report (2000-2003), Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department
Staff and Faculty Work
In 2000 Carleton received a three-year Mellon grant. We wanted to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, focusing on the discipline major. Our call for participants resulted in five departments agreeing to participate. The departments are Classical Languages (including Hebrew), Economics, English, Geology, and History. The initiative offered the library and the departments a wonderful opportunity to focus on information literacy within these disciplines.
Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner
Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner
Staff and Faculty Work
This article examines the impact of electronic technology on libraries and scholarship. It focuses on some of the challenges of using electronic resources in research libraries, which include the cost of acquiring electronic formats and the effect that such expenditures have on other library services and collection development practices. The article also explores how electronic resources have changed the way students and scholars conduct research. The goal of this essay is not to criticize or condemn electronic formats but, rather, to illustrate that electronic technology is simply one tool, among others, for the dissemination of information. As such, electronic resources …
Into The Dustbin Of History? The Evaluation And Preservation Of Slavic Materials, Bradley L. Schaffner, Brian J. Baird
Into The Dustbin Of History? The Evaluation And Preservation Of Slavic Materials, Bradley L. Schaffner, Brian J. Baird
Staff and Faculty Work
One of the greatest challenges facing area studies librarians today is preservation of collections. Area studies collections in libraries, the backbone of international studies programs for most colleges and universities in North America, are in danger. Most materials in these collections were published on acidic paper and poorly bound leaving them susceptible to rapid deterioration. Slavic collections, for example, appear to be in dire need of preservation treatment, but there is very little hard data on the scope of the problem. This research project, conducted at the University of Kansas Libraries, is the first step toward gaining a better understanding …