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It Takes A Village: Transforming Students Into Professionals Via Library Research Collaboration, Colleen Boff, Julie Hodges
It Takes A Village: Transforming Students Into Professionals Via Library Research Collaboration, Colleen Boff, Julie Hodges
Colleen T. Boff, Ed.D.
Details about a collaboration between an edcuation faculty member and a librarian are offered. They worked together to show students how to identify research studies that addressed instructional strategies for use by teacher practitioners responsible for making adaptations to the learning environment.
Collaboration In The Large:Using Video Conferencing To Facilitate Large Group Interaction, D Sonnenwald, Paul Solomon, N Hara, R Bolliger, T Cox
Collaboration In The Large:Using Video Conferencing To Facilitate Large Group Interaction, D Sonnenwald, Paul Solomon, N Hara, R Bolliger, T Cox
Paul Solomon
This chapter discusses the social, organizational and technical challenges and solutions that emerged when facilitating collaboration through videoconferencing for a large, geographically dispersed research and development (R&D) organization. Collaboration is an integral component of many R&D organizations. Awareness of activities and potential contributions of others is fundamental to initiating and maintaining collaboration, yet this awareness is often difficult to sustain, especially when the organization is geographically dispersed. To address these challenges, we applied an action research approach, working with members of a large, geographically distributed R&D center to implement videoconferencing to facilitate collaboration and large group interaction within the center. …
Teaming Up: Benefits Of Collaborating With Library Colleagues, Kim Cornell, Lise Doucette, Dan Sich
Teaming Up: Benefits Of Collaborating With Library Colleagues, Kim Cornell, Lise Doucette, Dan Sich
Dan Sich
When looking to increase communication and collaboration in our library, we created a team of physical sciences/engineering librarians, library assistants, and administrators. Together, we work on setting priorities, sharing expertise, and developing skills. In three years, we have moved from traditional subject-based instruction responsibilities to working as a team to prepare and co-instruct classes. By sharing with you the benefits of our team-based system to our librarians, library system, and users, we want to inspire you to think about how to implement a similar system in your own library.
Collaborative Marketing For Electronic Resources Er&L Presentation, Marie Kennedy
Collaborative Marketing For Electronic Resources Er&L Presentation, Marie Kennedy
Marie R. Kennedy
This presentation reports on the results of an international collaborative project with 100 libraries to benchmark the marketing of electronic resources. In the presentation I describe the impetus for the project, the project planning, the execution and results of this effort. The talk highlights the collaborative aspect of the project.