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Selected Works

Selected Works

2008

Academic libraries

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Assessing An Institution-Wide Information Fluency Program: Commitment, Plan, And Purposes, Penny Beile Sep 2008

Assessing An Institution-Wide Information Fluency Program: Commitment, Plan, And Purposes, Penny Beile

Penny Beile

University of Central Florida faculty and administrators recently endorsed a library-initiated proposal to integrate information fluency across the curriculum. The information fluency proposal was drafted in response to a university-wide call for proposals for a quality enhancement plan, which is a requirement for reaffirmation by the institution's regional accrediting body. After selecting information fluency as the winning proposal, university administrators, program and library faculty, and other support units collaborated to develop a comprehensive implementation and assessment plan. This article describes the role and purpose of a quality enhancement plan and the process by which information fluency was selected as a …

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Following The Public’S Lead: What Public Libraries Do Better Than Academic Libraries, Christopher A. Sweet, Aimee Dziekan Mar 2008

Following The Public’S Lead: What Public Libraries Do Better Than Academic Libraries, Christopher A. Sweet, Aimee Dziekan

Christopher A. Sweet

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Christian Publishing: A Panel Discussion, Dennis Hillman, Mark Hunt, Jim Kinney, Jon Pott, Gregory Smith Dec 2007

Christian Publishing: A Panel Discussion, Dennis Hillman, Mark Hunt, Jim Kinney, Jon Pott, Gregory Smith

Gregory A. Smith

The 2007 conference of the Association of Christian Librarians convened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the campus of Cornerstone University. Conference planners invited representatives of four prominent Christian publishers headquartered there (Baker, Eerdmans, Kregel, and Zondervan) to participate in a panel discussion on June 13. The panelists’ 65-minute exchange is transcribed here in slightly abbreviated form. At the beginning of the discussion, panelists were asked to reflect on general trends in the Christian publishing industry. This led naturally to a lengthy conversation about the publishers’ involvement in the creation and licensing of ebooks and other digital products. Finally, panelists were …

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