Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

School Librarians: Their Role As Global Educators In The 21st Century, Darliene Zepeda-Field

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Purpose: This article presents information that examine how school librarians have the skills and knowledge to produce globally educated students in a K-8 environment during a time when administrators and school districts are eliminating the position of school librarian.

Methodology/Approach: This includes an overview of the job duties for a school librarian in the 21st century from the California School Library Association (CSLA). Drawing from the qualitative analysis on 3 school librarians in 3 different school districts, along with ethnographic observations on class visits to their library will provide a discussion on the challenges and current dilemma of changes in …

Bibliography For Victorian England Holiday Display, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography of materials in the Leatherby Libraries related to the celebration of winter holidays in Victorian England, with a particular focus on the works of Charles Dickens.

Information Literacy And Academic Libraries As Working Places, Shahrzad Khosrowpour

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

A power point about the assessment in the Cataloging department to assess staff’s performances, their critical thinking/decision-making effectiveness, and bringing solutions to time management and productivity of the department.

Challenges And Solutions In Library And Information Sciences: Formulating A Pharmacy Collection Without A Prescription, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

Librarians, pharmacists, and scientists encounter diverse challenges relating to knowledge management, the creation, organization, and retrieval of information. This session will highlight current challenges faced in this area by colleagues from across the Academy. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in two roundtable discussions. By the end of the session, participants will be able to describe current challenges faced in Library and Information Science, and bring solutions back to their academic program.

These slides include the "Formulating a Pharmacy Collection Without a Prescription" portion of the panel, which discussed the collection development process for a group of non-health science …