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Title And Contents- Summer 2009

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Volume 29/ Number 3 / Summer 2009

CONTENTS

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF HOMESTEADING AS A POLICY OF PUBLIC DOMAIN DISPOSAL

A PRAIRIE PARABLE: THE 1933 BATES TRAGEDY

CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND THE OMAHA WAY: SUMMER 2009 EUNICE WOODHULL STABLER'S LEGACY OF PRESERVATION ON THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PLAINS

REVIEW ESSAY: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF A MOVING OBJECT: EMERGING UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN METIS

BOOK REVIEWS

NOTES AND NEWS

Permanent Electronic Access To Government Information: A Study Of Federal, State, And Local Documents, Claudene Sproles, Angel Clemons

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

[First two paragraphs]

Even before the conception of electronic-only documents, providing permanent public access to government information was challenging. Since 1813, federal depository libraries have acquired and maintained tangible items to ensure continued access for the public. Fugitive documents, or government-produced information which escapes distribution through the Federal Depository Library System (FDLP), have always been a major concern. In our current environment, where the vast majority of government information is distributed electronic-only, this problem has only worsened. That, coupled with the ability to completely destroy electronic documents with the click of a mouse, has made the task of finding and …

"Better Than Average": Information Literacy Skill Levels, Self-Estimates Of Performance, And Library Anxiety, Melissa Gross, Don Latham

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

No abstract provided.

A Game-Based Multimedia Approach To Library Orientation, Nancy O'Hanlon, Karen Diaz, Fred Roecker

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

How can 6,000 new Ohio State University students and their families become familiar with a major research library system before they begin their first day of classes? Simple. They play the Libraries’ interactive multimedia games distributed to all incoming freshmen.

The Libraries’ Instruction Office, in collaboration with the University Office of First Year Experience, created an innovative series of casual, interactive online games to orient the thousands of incoming freshmen to the University Libraries, resources, people, and basic library skills. A survey of first-quarter freshmen perceptions helped to determine what new students want to know about the Libraries.

By completing …

Teaching In A Tea House, Esther Grassian, Catherine Haras, Billy Pashaie

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Librarians have made laudable efforts in developing information literacy instruction (ILI) programs, and in working with K-12 and public libraries, leveraging efforts to prepare students for college and university-level work, supporting lifelong learning. However, up to now few may have asked key questions across libraries of all types regarding a broader, more sequential approach to lifelong information literacy.

• What came before and what comes after your ILI efforts at your institution and beyond?
• Does your ILI build on what came before and offer additional foundation for what may come after?
• Who contributes to ILI, in which arenas, and how?
• How …

First-Year Composition And The Writing-Research Gap, Elizabeth Birmingham, Molly R. Flaspohler

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Annmarie Singh’s 2005 article “A Report on Faculty Perceptions of Students’ Information Literacy Competencies in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs: The ACEJMC Survey” showed that faculty in her sample believed many of their undergraduate students did not meet ACRL’s information literacy standards. However, most of these faculty members reported improvement in their students’ research competencies following instruction. We present the results of a study that extends Singh’s work in two useful ways: 1) it isolates teacher perceptions of first-year student skills; and 2) it describes the effectiveness of employing a variety of pedagogical strategies to teach students about the research …

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer/Fall 2009, Seaall

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No abstract provided.

Long-Term Effects Of Parents' Education On Children's Educational And Occupational Success Mediation By Family Interactions, Child Aggression, And Teenage Aspirations, Eric F. Dubow, Paul Boxer, L. Rowell Husemann

Psychology Faculty Publications

We examine the prediction of individuals' educational and occupational success at age 48 from contextual and personal variables assessed during their middle childhood and late adolescence. We focus particularly on the predictive role of the parents' educational level during middle childhood, controlling for other indices of socioeconomic status and children's IQ, and the mediating roles of negative family interactions, childhood behavior, and late adolescent aspirations. Data come from the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, which began in 1960 when all 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State were interviewed along with their parents; participants were reinterviewed at …

National Oil Companies And The Dual Mandate: A Balance Between Profitability And Social Development In The Middle East, Jennifer Ernst Robinson

Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies

National Oil Companies (NOCs) collectively own approximately 90 percent of the world’s oil reserves, with the Middle East and North Africa region accounting for about 67 percent. Yet the nature of their state ownership endows NOCs with a dual mandate: to profitably extract the country’s oil reserves while also promoting economic and social development for the domestic population. This paper focuses on how the dual mandate affects the management, operations, investment and efficiency of NOCs. I argue that the prevailing culture and norms of Middle Eastern NOCs – embodied in their dual missions of profitability and social development – are …

July Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

What Next for Sri Lanka's 2.5 Million Tamils? by Amantha Perera. Time. May 26, 2009.

and

How to Defeat Insurgencies: Sri Lanka's Bad Example by Bobby Ghosh. Time, May 20, 2009.

Moving Beyond Conflict In Sri Lanka: The Economic Rights Dimension, Shareen Hertel

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Much of the literature on transitional justice underplays the role of economic rights in shoring up peace. The case of Sri Lanka demonstrates the urgency of addressing them. Until a month ago, Sri Lanka was the country with Asia’s longest running civil war. Since independence in 1947, the island nation has been wracked by conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority—a conflict that has eroded political stability and aggravated internal inequalities. The struggle was marked not only by inter-ethnic and religious tensions but also by a fight for control over land and resources.

Stepping Outside The Faculty-Mediated Outreach Model: Collaborations With Student Academic Support Services To Reach Students, Annette Marines, Kerry Scott

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

The discussion will focus on collaborations with campus student academic support services (SASS) -- programs that are funded and staffed to provide academic support to students -- to enable librarians to reach diverse student audiences. As campus resources diminish and workloads increase, collaborative partnerships are essential to continue to reach diverse student constituencies. Such collaborations add value to librarians' work by reading audiences that would otherwise be difficult to attract through traditional library programming channels or venues. In turn, SASS programs are enhanced with the participation of a librarian who can provide expertise in library research skills. These kinds of …

Let's Have A Party: Information Literacy Instruction As An Empowerment Strategy, Shahla Bahavar, Angela Boyd, Valeria Molteni, Sophie Lesinska

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Is it a crazy idea or an innovative pedagogical strategy to turn an information literacy instruction (ILI) session into a party? Joy Kim, Curator of the Korean Heritage Library at the University of Southern California, implements this approach every semester to welcome Korean students to USC campus. Considering the success of her program, perhaps more instruction librarians should take time to organize information literacy welcome parties.

International and minority students experience more alienation on campus than average students. Effective ILI often minimizes this sense of alienation felt by these two groups. International students find services available in American libraries are …

Inter-Institutional Information Literacy Instruction And Assessment, Marcus Kieltyka

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

This Breakout Session discussion will examine the current status of Information Literacy (IL) as currently evolving between Washington State Community Colleges and Baccalaureate Institutions.

The impetus for this discussion arose through a joint American College & Research Library (ACRL) Information Literacy Workshop between Washington State Community and Baccalaureate Institutions. This effort has recently been updated from allowing students to carry across the traditional 90 credits up to a maximum of 105 credits to the new institution.

Some questions that arise include: to what level are community college students being introduced to varying levels of IL over or to the exclusion …

Instruction 2.0: Teaching And/Or Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies In Your Classroom, Susan Shepherd, Teri M. Vogel

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Blogs, wikis, RSS, Second Life, Facebook and more……The tools of web 2.0 are what Millenials use in their daily lives, from collaborating to socializing. Integrated into classroom instruction, they can support and reinforce learning objectives. In addition, the Library is uniquely positioned to offer general workshops on use of Web 2.0 tools for faculty, university staff, library colleagues, and students.

In this discussion session, we will cover two separate aspects of Instruction 2.0:

1. Tips and techniques for teaching students, faculty and staff how to use these new tools, and
2. How the tools themselves can be utilized to enhance student learning …

Understanding Undergraduates: What Does Phenomenography Tell Us About Learners, Clarence Maybee

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

It has been ten years since Christine Bruce's (1997) Seven Faces of Information Literacy was published, sharing the results of her phenomenographic research project revealing how librarians and other higher educators understood information literacy. Bruce's research impacted the way we think about information literacy by providing us with an expanded definition derived from people's experience. Applied to undergraduate students, phenomenography provides a powerful tool for understanding how students experience information literacy. The results of the presenter's two research projects verifies what some of us may have realized intuitively –that often there is a gap between the student approach to finding …

Ask An Interesting Question: Insights From A Reflective Survey Of Senior Biology Students, Don Macmillan

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

As part of an ongoing process to assess the Information Literacy program at the University of Calgary, senior biology students were surveyed to find out what resources they actually used, and how their research habits evolved over the course of their studies. The survey asked students to reflect on their research process and the various tools they used at different stages, such as Google Scholar, Biological Abstracts, Web of Science and PubMed. The survey also asked about learning, how strategies had changed and how students learned about new tools. One of the most interesting questions asked students what they wish …

What Do Nursing And Classics Have In Common? Innovative Library Assignments Embedded In Blackboard, Marcia Poggione, Michelle Early

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Xavier University librarians take advantage of two new Blackboard features, Expo Directory and Team Site, to assist faculty in designing a graduate nursing course and an undergraduate classics course. The graduate nursing course, Healthcare Informatics, used Expo Directory, the e-portfolio feature in Blackboard, to display documents demonstrating a student’s technology and information fluency skills. Individual and group consultation sessions, online instructions and two library instruction sessions were provided. An evidence-based practice tutorial featuring a PICO analysis was created and imbedded in the Blackboard course as an advanced library assignment that utilized critical thinking. An online survey of faculty who …

The Marketing And Instruction Of New Tools For Libraries: Libx A Case Study, Kyrille Goldbeck

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

With the ubiquity and familiarity of Google and similar resources, users are turning to search engines rather than to the library to find information. By using LibX (http://libx.org), libraries now have a free tool they can offer that instantly connects their users to the library’s resources, no matter where the user is on the web. Once a resource is offered by a library, librarians must become familiar with what it is and how to use it. In order to support the new tool, librarians should develop promotional strategies that will further encourage the use of the tool. Additionally, …

Quarantined: The Fletcher Library Game Project, Bee Gallegos, Tammy Allgood, Karen Grondin

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

More than a tutorial, Quarantined: Axl Wise and the Information Outbreak is a fully interactive single-player game environment that simulates the complex processes of selecting, using, evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information within a library setting. A variety of information sources such as databases, the online catalog, the web, librarians, professors and peers are employed to solve the mystery in this game.

The game is an educational adventure game with puzzle and action elements. Players try to save the world from a deadly outbreak while developing information literacy skills as they explore the college campus game world, avoid contagious …

"Next Slide, Please": An Analysis And Conversation On The Uses And Misuses Of Microsoft Powerpoint At Library Instruction Conferences, David J. Brier, Vickery Kaye Lebbin

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

At professional library conferences, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized into Microsoft PowerPoint slides projected up on the wall. Critics of PowerPoint have argued that it induces stupidity, turns everyone into bores, wastes time, and degrades the quality and credibility of communication. Yet, PowerPoint remains the primary tool for communicating ideas among librarians specializing in instruction.

Instruction librarians have an ongoing concern on understanding and using technology to enhance student learning. This presentation, however, flips that focus and concentrates on how technology is used to enhance and impede librarian learning. …

Navigating The Information Needs Of Online & Remote Students: Charting A New Course, Anne Marie Secord, Barbara Stillwell, Robin Lockerby

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

National is a non-traditional university that provides higher education to working adults in an accelerated (one-month) format. It is projected that by the end of 2007 over half of the 22,000 FTE students will be taking classes online.

To meet this change in student demographics, the Library changed its service model and now provides all library instruction online via voice and video over the internet or as web-based interactive tutorials. The move to synchronous training over the Internet has called on us to develop new pedagogical approaches to our instruction to encourage active learning and HOTS (higher order thinking skills). …

Library Instruction On The Go: Podcasting At The Kresge Library, Jennifer Zimmer, Sally Ziph

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Business school students today want to plug in, download and go. That’s where podcasting comes in as a non-traditional medium/delivery to enhance student learning. The University of Michigan Kresge Dash Podcast Series developed by Digital Services Librarian Jennifer Zimmer and the Kresge Librarians delivers a substantial sound & visual “bite” of information: see http://www.bus.umich.edu/KresgeLibrary/help/podcast.htm

The scripts are edited to follow the Kresge Dash Podcast format (introduction, overview, content, recap, and conclusion.) The voice track is recorded, then screen shots and other images are added at appropriate chapter marks. Music and the logo for the series are added at the beginning …

Keeping Up With The Youtube Generation: Collaborating With Student Video Bloggers To Enhance Library Instruction, Susan Ariew

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Undergraduates can make significant contributions as members of multimedia production teams for academic libraries. In this case, at USF Tampa Library, an undergraduate “YouTube video blogger” worked with library faculty and graduate students to create an information literacy video, “Databases!” The video was used as part of the USF instruction program during the fall 2006 semester. In addition to an information literacy video, the video team also created a humorous rap video that included an anti-anti-plagiarism theme and highlighted USF library services. The video, entitled “The Chronicles of Libraria,” is currently available at the YouTube Web site. This presentation would …

Cloning Ourselves: One Librarian's Experience, Judith A. Downie

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

As information literacy instruction becomes increasingly integrated throughout the curriculum, the demands on librarians have increased. This breakout presents two virtual instructional technologies to maximize contact with, and learning by, students in response to workload and location limitations. This breakout demonstrates using MediaSite technology as one means to accommodate increased demands. In addition, survey technologies such as SurveyMonkey provide a means to collect evaluative and assessment data using online technology.

Such technology serves as a ‘clone’ of the librarian and extends instructional outreach and support. Impetus for such adoption can be driven by librarian or student needs. For librarians, such …

Setting Sail Without A Map: Creative Collaboration For A Multi-Disciplinary Conference, Kathryn L. Venditti, Judith P. Williams

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

The Art of the Picture Book Conference was launched in May 2006 in Ashland, Ohio. The two-day event drew a total of 158 attendees, featured award-winning authors/ illustrators as keynote speakers, and offered 35 sessions, selected from a total of 45 proposal submissions. By involving co-curricular programs and community partners, such as other departments on campus, the university bookstore, local public libraries and school districts, and regional museums, the conference offered a variety of techniques to develop and enhance literacy in children. Presentation opportunities allowed our university students a venue to showcase their comprehensive information abilities. Crossover into various disciplines …

A Community Without Walls: Testing The Waters, Lydia Jackson, Julia Hansen

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

In a world where so many students have turned to the web for fast, “good enough” answers, how can librarians work together to respond? Academic librarians can stimulate better collaboration with school librarians in both information literacy and collection development efforts. The presenters will discuss the challenges an academic library faced in a collaborative project with local middle and high school librarians. We will also demonstrate why this project was important, analyze what was learned, and discuss future plans to address anomalies identified in programs geared to enhance the information literacy skills of students at all levels.

Although many academic …

Sailing Off The Map: Managing Organizational Change In The Library Instruction Movement, Kristen Bullard, Wendy Holliday

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

The theme of this conference, uncharted waters, can evoke the disconcerting nature of uncertainty. As instruction librarians face challenges in a landscape of change, how can we navigate our institution’s organizational culture to be a strategic asset rather than a barrier to change?

This session will present case studies on organizational change from two instruction programs, Utah State University (USU) and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). In our case studies, we analyze artifacts of culture, including program goals and planning documents, and interviews with stakeholders to determine the organization’s dominant culture and its views and expectations about change. We then …

Maiden Voyage: A Library And Faculty Development Center Partnership To Promote Information Literacy, Stephanie M. Henderson, Mary Todd Chestnut

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Incorporating information literacy skills and competencies into the curriculum requires collaborative partnerships with the library faculty and the academic faculty with whom they work. At Northern Kentucky University’s Steely Library, a non-tenure track faculty position was created to serve in a dual role as a member of the Information Literacy faculty in the library and a member of the faculty in the University’s Professional and Organizational Development Center (POD). This dual role allows for the librarian to gain valuable insight to faculty needs while serving as a faculty member of the POD. Giving teaching faculty the opportunity to encounter the …

How To Embed A Librarian, Leslie Foutch, Brian Griffith, Lee Ann Lannom, Deborah Sommer, Sharon Weiner

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2007

Librarians were embedded in two Vanderbilt University courses in 2006. The largest undergraduate program is Human and Organization Development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. As part of an integrated approach, the librarians proposed an “embedded librarian” for a freshmen course of 107 students. A librarian audited a course. As a member of the class, she was informed about the assignments. She scheduled optional workshops that were tailored to the students needs.

At the Owen Graduate School of Management, an embedded librarian worked with 65 undergraduate students from a variety of non-business majors at Vanderbilt. They participated …