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What Clues Tell You Something Is True? Empowering Students To Find Evidence, Amanda Izenstark Oct 2017

What Clues Tell You Something Is True? Empowering Students To Find Evidence, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation for the third regional Friends Education Conference: Discerning Truth in a Post-Fact World: A Friends Education Conference for Librarians and Educators, held October 13, 2017, in Providence, RI.


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Aug 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.


Librarians As Design Partners: How We Helped Faculty Spotlight Il, Amanda Izenstark, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald Jun 2017

Librarians As Design Partners: How We Helped Faculty Spotlight Il, Amanda Izenstark, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald

Public Services Faculty Presentations

These slides accompanied a presentation at the New England Library Instruction Group 2017 Annual Program.

During the implementation of a new outcomes-based General Education program, librarians helped subject faculty highlight IL skills through a redesign of their existing assignments. In this session, see examples of how we reviewed course proposals and worked to ensure that students could meet those outcomes.


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - May 2017, Mary Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark May 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - May 2017, Mary Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.


Final Report For Chesnutt Library Fellows Information Literacy Program (Final Report), Dong Wang Apr 2017

Final Report For Chesnutt Library Fellows Information Literacy Program (Final Report), Dong Wang

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Historical Questions And Informational Literacy, Robert D. Taber Apr 2017

Historical Questions And Informational Literacy, Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy In Class Room, Asitha Kodippili Apr 2017

Information Literacy In Class Room, Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Chesnutt Library Literacy Fellows Pathway: Ninth Cohort, Jennifer J. Marson Apr 2017

Chesnutt Library Literacy Fellows Pathway: Ninth Cohort, Jennifer J. Marson

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Fsu Chesnutt Library Fellows Information Literacy Program Presentation, Dong Wang Apr 2017

Fsu Chesnutt Library Fellows Information Literacy Program Presentation, Dong Wang

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Chestnutt Library Fellows: What Worked (And What Didn’T), Heather Griffiths Apr 2017

Chestnutt Library Fellows: What Worked (And What Didn’T), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy And Precalculus Mathematics I, Wu Jing Apr 2017

Information Literacy And Precalculus Mathematics I, Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


My Experience Of Being A Chesnutt Fellow On Information Literacy (Final Report), Asitha Kodippili Apr 2017

My Experience Of Being A Chesnutt Fellow On Information Literacy (Final Report), Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Literacy Fellow Ninth Cohort, 2016-2017--Paper Assignment (Final Report), Jennifer J. Marson Apr 2017

Literacy Fellow Ninth Cohort, 2016-2017--Paper Assignment (Final Report), Jennifer J. Marson

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Historical Questions And Informational Literacy (Final Report), Robert D. Taber Apr 2017

Historical Questions And Informational Literacy (Final Report), Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Analysis: Information Literacy And Sociology 390 (Final Report), Heather Griffiths Apr 2017

Analysis: Information Literacy And Sociology 390 (Final Report), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller Apr 2017

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy- Math 129 Precalculus Mathematics I Redesign (Final Report), Wu Jing Apr 2017

Information Literacy- Math 129 Precalculus Mathematics I Redesign (Final Report), Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Finding Resources In Chesnutt Library: Books, Articles And Websites, Erin Eldridge Apr 2017

Finding Resources In Chesnutt Library: Books, Articles And Websites, Erin Eldridge

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Incorporating Information Literacy Into Anthropology 210 (Final Report), Erin Eldridge Apr 2017

Incorporating Information Literacy Into Anthropology 210 (Final Report), Erin Eldridge

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research, Alanna Miller Apr 2017

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research, Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy And General Education: Supporting Student Success, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Mar 2017

Information Literacy And General Education: Supporting Student Success, Jim Kinnie, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Presented at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2017, Providence, RI. Section of presentation entitled "Don't They Teach That in High School? Closing the K-16 Information Literacy Gap."

From conference abstract: Hear how librarians at one university successfully wove IL concepts into the fabric of the curriculum through an outcomes-based general education program.


Evaluate Everything, Amanda Izenstark Mar 2017

Evaluate Everything, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and speaker's notes for a panel presentation given at the University of Rhode Island on March 23, 2017. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Professor Karen F. Stein (Department of English and Gender and Women's Studies Program) titled "Finding Reliable Information in a 'Post-Fact' World." Co-panelists were Professor Brian Krueger (Chair, Department of Political Science), Professor John Pantalone (Chair, Department of Journalism), Professor Andrée Rathemacher (University Libraries), and Professor Christine Zozula (Department of Sociology and Anthropology).

The panel was presented by the Coalition to Encourage Civic Engagement and was co-sponsored by the URI College of Arts …


Going Beyond The One-Shot: Spiraling Information Literacy Across Four Year, Shawna E. Egan, Alan Witt, Shawna M. Chartier Mar 2017

Going Beyond The One-Shot: Spiraling Information Literacy Across Four Year, Shawna E. Egan, Alan Witt, Shawna M. Chartier

Milne Library

Many institutions overwhelm the first year seminar with “one-shot” library instruction sessions, which are not necessarily linked to any form of assignment or assessment. So how can librarians maintain information literacy instruction throughout a student's academic career? Data collected by the Rivier University librarians showcases the ability to implement information literacy more effectively by streamlining and leveling it out over a four-year period.


A Novel Application: Using Mobile Technology To Connect Physical And Virtual Reference Collections, Hailie D. Posey Jan 2017

A Novel Application: Using Mobile Technology To Connect Physical And Virtual Reference Collections, Hailie D. Posey

Library Faculty and Staff papers

This chapter describes an innovative implementation of the use of iPad kiosks to blur the lines between physical and virtual library collections. Providence College’s Phillips Memorial Library + Commons began lending iPads to students, faculty, and staff in 2012. In addition to lending the devices, library staff dedicated time to learning about both task-based and subject-based mobile applications that would be of use to our community. A small group of library staff tested, discussed, and vetted a variety of apps that would be deployed on the iPads to be lent out. Efforts were made to promote the use and discovery …


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - January 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Jan 2017

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - January 2017, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.