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The Arc: Preparing To Board, Charles Skewis, Iris Durden, Debra G. Skinner
The Arc: Preparing To Board, Charles Skewis, Iris Durden, Debra G. Skinner
Library Faculty Presentations
Learn how Georgia Southern is preparing collections for an automated retrieval system as part of an expansion / renovation project.
Library Tools For Connecting With The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Debra G. Skinner, Sonya S. Shepherd
Library Tools For Connecting With The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Debra G. Skinner, Sonya S. Shepherd
Library Faculty Presentations
Serving as liaison librarians at the department level, the authors discuss strategies for integrating library and online resources with the curriculum. Examples of technology-based capabilities range from current awareness services, e-reserves, and journal finding applications to smart linking functions that can be built into library catalogs, licensed databases, course syllabi, and tailored research guides. Attendees will be able to increase student engagement with learning resources by using their institution’s library tools more effectively, and by requesting librarian assistance to employ these functions in online research guides and course syllabi.
Rethinking The Undergraduate Curriculum: It Takes A Village, Christina Maslach, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Rethinking The Undergraduate Curriculum: It Takes A Village, Christina Maslach, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
The Berkeley Campus Culture:
- Research and graduate program pre-eminence
- Strong faculty governance
- Highly entrepreneurial culture
- Autonomous academic departments, schools, and colleges
- Decentralized “silos”
Berkeley Library Culture:
- Library pre-eminence
- Collections-centered
- Value of subject specialization
- Library silo
Shifting Library Culture:
- Traditional Model
- New Model
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
Shifting Library Culture:
- Traditional Model
- New Model
Some In-house Strategies:
- focus on instruction as related to collections
- redefine role of liaison
- clarify expectations — link to performance review
- provide professional development
- build prestige (rewards) around instruction
- emphasize faculty voices
Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps: A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History, Katherine Rankin
Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps: A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History, Katherine Rankin
Library Faculty Presentations
Starting with the 1844 Fremont Map, and going through the present day, each era of Las Vegas history is described.
Where Is The Library In Course Management Software?, Marianne A. Buehler
Where Is The Library In Course Management Software?, Marianne A. Buehler
Library Faculty Presentations
Course management software (CMS) or courseware products, such as Prometheus, FirstClass, Blackboard, and WebCT, do not include the Library as an essential, curricular component in their design. Consequently, the task falls to librarians to creatively partner with faculty to input library resources into courseware to support students effectively in their research endeavors. Distance learning students, who are off campus, will benefit as they are physically removed from the Library. Distance learners (DLs) can be intimidated by library websites and find it difficult and time consuming to navigate. Since the entire course content is in the course management product, the primary …