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Supporting Student Success In Information Literacy And Writing Skills, Beth Transue, Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell
Supporting Student Success In Information Literacy And Writing Skills, Beth Transue, Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Information literacy is more important than ever as students’ information sources rapidly expand and change. Fortunately, Messiah has numerous resources to support instructors and students in cutting through the clutter and improving writing. In this workshop we will discuss those supports as well as resources that can be applied to a wide array of writing assignments. Particularly, ways to scaffold information literacy initiatives with the help of online and library based tools. This workshop is facilitated by Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell, Director of Writing and Senior Lecturer of English and Beth Transue, Information Literacy Librarian.
Moving Beyond Doctor Google: Providing Consumer Health Literacy In The Library, Beth M. Transue
Moving Beyond Doctor Google: Providing Consumer Health Literacy In The Library, Beth M. Transue
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Presented virtually at PaLA Frontline Conference, 2024
This session will help library public services staff to identify credible sources of health information that assist patrons with increasing health literacy skills. It will review credible health websites and discuss evaluation criteria for medical information. The session will also discuss professional boundaries that library staff need to maintain when providing health information.
Caring For The Family Tree: Helping Patrons Select Genealogy Software, Beth Transue, Rob Lesher
Caring For The Family Tree: Helping Patrons Select Genealogy Software, Beth Transue, Rob Lesher
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Caring for the Family Tree: Helping Patrons Select Genealogy Software
Presentation by: Rob Lesher, PA Library Association PA Forward Manager and Beth Transue, Messiah University Information Literacy Librarian
Presented at the PA Library Association annual conference, October 2023, Kalahari Resort, Poconos, PA
Objectives:
- Help patrons determine genealogy research goals and budget parameters
- Explore genealogy software options
- Assist patrons to select genealogy software options based on research goals and budget parameters
This Civic & Social Literacy focused presentation will help librarians work with patrons to select genealogy software. As the hobby of genealogy grows in popularity, there is a multitude of …
Crafting An Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options To Embed Information Literacy In The Curriculum, Beth Transue
Crafting An Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options To Embed Information Literacy In The Curriculum, Beth Transue
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
No scissors and glue are needed with: Crafting an Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options to Embed Information Literacy in the Curriculum. Learn the process of creating an information literacy toolkit that maximizes librarian and faculty choices and increases student information literacy skills.
Objectives
- Describe the current information literacy environment at my institution, identifying strengths and challenges that might be common to other institutions
- Design of information literacy faculty toolkit
- Implement information literacy faculty toolkit
Please cite as:
Crafting an Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options to Embed Information Literacy in the Curriculum. PA Library Association Annual Conference. October …
Big Statements With Project Outcomes, Beth Transue
Big Statements With Project Outcomes, Beth Transue
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Presented virtually at the Pennsylvania Library Association annual conference on October 20, 2020.
Project Outcome is a free tool which your library can use to assess and evaluate the impacts of the programming/services which you do. Project Outcome for public libraries has been used for many years and, this year, an academic library version has been launched. Learn how this powerful tool can be used in your library and how you can compare your data with other local, state, national and international participants.
Connectivism And Information Literacy: Moving From Learning Theory To Pedagogical Practice, Beth M. Transue
Connectivism And Information Literacy: Moving From Learning Theory To Pedagogical Practice, Beth M. Transue
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Connectivism is an emerging learning theory positing that knowledge comprises networked relationships and that learning comprises the ability to successfully navigate through these networks. Successful pedagogical strategies involve the instructor helping students to identify, navigate, and evaluate information from their learning networks. Many principles of connectivism align with the information literacy standards of the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Librarian educators should consider connectivism learning theory when implementing pedagogical strategies in the network domains of students.
Ebooks In The Academy: Impacts On Learning And Pedagogy, Beth M. Transue
Ebooks In The Academy: Impacts On Learning And Pedagogy, Beth M. Transue
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Presenting problems and possibilities of ebooks in courses in academia. Several studies are cited, in addition to perceptions from Messiah College community.
Assessing Assignments: The Library As Partner In Campus-Wide Assessment, Beth M. Transue, Beth Mark
Assessing Assignments: The Library As Partner In Campus-Wide Assessment, Beth M. Transue, Beth Mark
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Analysis of two campus-wide assessments:
- Syllabi Analysis Project
- Library Assignment Analysis Project
Separating Wheat From Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy, Trudi E. Jacobson, Beth Mark
Separating Wheat From Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy, Trudi E. Jacobson, Beth Mark
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Many traditional first-year students arrive on college and university campuses with a great deal of experience in searching the Internet. In fact, they can find prodigious amounts of information with relative ease—as evidenced by the lists of Web sites used to document many of their research papers. Most of these students, however, lack the critical-thinking skills and database-searching proficiency necessary for them to fine-tune their information searches. They need to know how to focus their topics, where (in addition to the Internet) to search, and how to evaluate and use the information they retrieve—skills commonly encompassed in the phrase “information …
Teaching Anxious Students Skills For The Electronic Library, Beth Mark, Trudi E. Jacobson
Teaching Anxious Students Skills For The Electronic Library, Beth Mark, Trudi E. Jacobson
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Some students immediately feel at home in today's technology-saturated library, but many others have difficulty navigating the myriad of electronic sources in most academic libraries. It is estimated that as many as one-third of the college students in the United States suffer from technophobia and are anxious about using computers. In addition to coping with computer technology, many first-year college students are intimidated by the size and complexity of academic libraries (Mellon 1986). In short, just when students most need to become competent users of information technology, anxieties can cause them to avoid the library altogether (Warmkessel 1992).
Breaking the …
Personnel: Key To Successful Public Service (Book Review), Jonathan D. Lauer
Personnel: Key To Successful Public Service (Book Review), Jonathan D. Lauer
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Topics covered in the collection range from professional education to conflict resolution to team building and unionization. Of particular merit are contributions by Kathleen M. Heim, Les Pourciau, and Diane Mittermeyer.