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Ambitious Student Seeks Valuable Internship: Will You Mentor Me?, Cara B. Stone, Anne Marie Gruber

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2011

How does a random email become a graduate student internship and what can be learned from the mentoring experience? What started as email correspondence from an MLS student seeking librarian mentors in her home state turned into meeting in person, and eventually an internship at University of Dubuque's Charles C. Myers Library. Spring 2011 is the first time library staff have had the opportunity to welcome a MLS graduate student intern. The internship primarily focuses on information literacy, involving the student in a thriving, curriculum-integrated program that consists of over 500 class sessions per year, delivered by five librarians. Staff …

Classroom Assessment Techniques In One-Shot Instruction Sessions: Balancing Teaching, Learning, And Time, Laura Westmoreland Gariepy

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Librarians who teach one-shot instruction sessions often find it difficult to make time for assessment at the expense of teaching content. This session will discuss how librarians can use Classroom Assessment Techniques to not only quickly assess student learning and improve teaching, but also enhance student learning. The presentation will focus on one-shot instruction sessions; however, the principles will apply to a variety of instructional settings.

Participants will explore a variety of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): exercises and activities administered in the classroom to assess student learning. As opposed to many large scale assessment instruments that demonstrate what students have …

Continuous Assessment, The Catalyst For Building A Successful Information Literacy Program That Focuses On Student Needs, Jon R. Hufford, Arlene K. Paschel

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In keeping with the requirements of Texas Tech University's current strategic planning initiative, assessment, and in particular student-learning assessment, has become a crucial step in the process of continuously developing and improving the Libraries' Information Literacy program. This presentation reviews developments in the program, training for the librarians who participate in the program, the outreach and collaboration efforts to expand the program, and the important role that assessment plays in the process of discovering student needs, improving content, teaching, learning, and the operation of the program. The emphasis is on assessment as a catalyst in the process of continually improving …

"How Did We Do?": Evaluating The Instruction Program With A Senior Survey, Heather Jagman, Terry S. Taylor

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Library instruction programs often center around reaching first year students in a required course. Predictable contact with a student pool of this size is not only an excellent foundation for consistent delivery of information literacy instruction, it can also be a valuable component of an assessment plan.

Frequently, assessment focuses on learning outcomes of instruction sessions. How else might we examine the impact of instruction through our students? DePaul's Library surveyed seniors in capstone courses university-wide to gauge their perceptions of the instruction they had received over their years at the university. Their responses provided information about the reach of …

One Size Can't Fit All: A Multi-Layered Assessment Approach To Identifying Skill And Competency Levels, Jennifer Sharkey, Bill Mcmillin, Trisha Prosise

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Identifying skill and competency levels of freshman college students can be challenging. Where they are and what they know regarding finding, using, evaluating, and synthesizing information influences what we teach via tutorials, online subject guides, and in-class teaching. This session will discuss why it is important to conduct multiple types of assessment for determining students' skill and competency levels. The presenters will highlight the instruments that make up their library instruction program's multi-layered assessment approach for a first-year introductory composition & communication program and how they are used to inform future planning and teaching efforts. Specifically, the types of assessment …

Cite It Right: Critical Assessment Of Open Source Web-Based Citation Generators, Hui-Fen Chang

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Writing proper citations is a critically important part of the research process. Instructing students how to cite is a key component of information literacy initiatives for academic and research libraries. To further support students, many libraries have purchased the licenses to bibliographic management software packages such as RefWorks and EndNote to help create and manage citations. Recently, a number of free or inexpensive Web-based citation generators such as EasyBib, NoodleBib, BibMe, KnightCite, Citation Machine, NCS Citation Builder, SourceAid have emerged and gained the attention of students as well as teaching librarians. While most of these tools are designed to emphasize …

Humor As A Tool For Addressing The Affective Domain During Information Literacy Instruction, Joshua Vossler, John Watts

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Gaining and maintaining student attention during information literacy instruction can be a challenge. To address this challenge, entertainment value, as well as instructional efficacy, ought to be factored into assessment and design of instructional materials. Information literacy instruction should be as much about building bridges with students as it is about imparting useful information and skills. Entertaining while educating (edutaining), promotes student attention and helps build a positive learning environment. In this interactive session, attendees will participate in a practical approach to producing creative and entertaining content for information literacy instruction.

Libguides, Videos, And Screencasting: Technologies To Enhance And Promote Digital Wisdom In Information Literacy Instruction, Rafia Mirza, Jody Bailey

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n this workshop, we will discuss how the information revolution affects teaching information literacy -- specifically, students' need for digital wisdom. Today, students are usually aware of what technology can do for them socially but do not know how to produce and critically assess digital knowledge in their scholarship. Demonstrating the production of digital objects will help promote digital wisdom in the classroom by making the process transparent. To this end, we will demonstrate the following:

- A LibGuide that is interactive, welcoming, personal, and helpful and that will focus on how to teach students or faculty about video editing. …

Move Aside Scotty, Jing Is The Thing: Individualized Student-Created Tutorial Collections, Performance Assessment, And Easy Instructor Feedback, Stephanie Wiegand

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If only Scotty could beam us around the world, to wherever and whenever students need our help… But, wait, there's Jing freeware! Engage students in video creation for performance assessment as they build personalized libraries of research tutorials. But, wait, there's more! Address and correct errors in class assignments in seconds. But, wait, there's more! Create individualized instruction for students not enrolled in information literacy courses and videos as follow-ups to one-shot sessions. Attend this session and discover a new frontier of easy and efficient online video utilization for instruction.

Reaching Out To Transfer Students: Usc Upstate's Foundation In Information Literacy, Andrew Kearns, Chris Vidas

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How do you "catch" transfer students to ensure that they receive timely instruction in information literacy? What kind of intervention will be compatible with library staff and budgetary considerations? What kind of outreach is likely to gain support of the institution? This presentation will describe USC Upstate's Foundation in Information Literacy (FIL), an "inventory" administered through the admissions process. We will describe how we created FIL, how we marketed it, what kinds of follow-up we have designed for students who take it, and the results of the pilot administrations in Spring and Fall 2010. We will also address the future …

Tilting Toward Millennials: Updating Online Information Literacy Instruction For Post-Modern Learners, Rebecca Befus, Joshua Neds-Fox

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This session will describe the challenge of reinventing a graphically outdated and content heavy online information literacy tutorial and tilting it toward a millennial audience. You will learn how we reinvented substantive content from an instructional design perspective and be provided general suggestions for creating quality content. In addition, you will learn specific design strategies, focusing on innovative web design trends, collaboration with public services librarians, and using cost-effective resources to create successful virtual learning environments. You will also view results from a study performed on the tutorial and learn how the results have influenced updates.

Using Mashups And Multimedia To Provide Online User Independence For All Learning Styles, Lori S. Mestre

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In the globalized e-learning environment, students coming from different cultures have different characteristics and require different support designed for their approaches to study and learning styles. Learn effective strategies of how to revolutionize your web pages and online instructional efforts to create engaging online learning tools and mashups that appeal to diverse learning styles. Improve your ability to move from passive presentation methods to more effective online instruction that focuses on independent student active learning.

After a discussion of a usability study to assess learning style preferences as they pertain to library tutorials, the audience will help to redesign a …

Creating A Leaner, Meaner Database Collection To Leverage Instruction, Mary Anne Erwin, Emily Scharf

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In spring 2010, Librarians reviewed each of Webster University Library's 150 subject and multidisciplinary databases to ensure they continue to support the curriculum, . This successful collaboration began with subject liaisons and reference librarians and extended to meaningfully include faculty, other library staff, students, and vendors. Examples and results are presented in the context of our largest subject collection, the 40+ business-related databases. We will showcase how this review has, and continues to, inform and strengthen library instruction and collection development across the Walker School of Business & Technology. This session describes the review process and outcomes in detail so …

"Gun Control" Is Not A Research Question! Partnering With Teaching Faculty To Solve Problems And Refresh Library Instruction, Beverly Kutz

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It's a classic problem: students in library instruction trying to research a topic without adequate preparation, or worse, having no topic at all. This was the number one problem identified when University of Tennessee Chattanooga library instructors and English Composition teaching faculty met in focus groups last summer. Learn how the UTC library used focus groups to partner with Freshman Composition teaching faculty to identify major problems, create innovative solutions, and collaborate to implement a completely refreshed 1st year library instruction program.

The results so far have been extremely satisfactory. Our partnership with Freshman English Composition faculty has resulted in …

Rigging For Rigor: Guiding Classroom Faculty Toward Richer Research Assignments With The Research Guidance Rubric, Pete Coco, Hazel Mcclure

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Proceeding from Project Information Literacy's recent report documenting student needs being left unmet by many research assignment prompts, two librarians developed a tool for faculty to self-assess their assignment prompts. The Research Guidance Rubric (RGR) functions both as a self-evaluation tool for faculty and as a "conversation-starter" between the disciplinary expertise of professors and the information literacy expertise of liaison librarians. We'll discuss assignment collaborations as we plumb the questions that premise the RGR: what makes a collaboration successful and how can librarian-created tools move the conversation on research assignments toward better student outcomes?

Bridging The Gaps: Transliteracy As Effective Pedagogy, Lane Wilkinson

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'Transliteracy' is a topic that is quickly spreading around the library world. However, there is little agreement about what, exactly, transliteracy is. This presentation will situate transliteracy within the context of library instruction as an enhanced approach to information literacy. Students are surprisingly information literate as they make effortless cognitive shifts between Facebook and e-mail, smart-phones and desktops, or text-messaging and speaking. Yet, they often hit a wall with library databases, indexes, or other research tools. Transliteracy addresses this issue pedagogically by emphasizing and harnessing the cognitive processes underlying preexisting media and information use. The presentation will begin with an …

Formative Assessment: Transforming Education In The Library, Teague Orblych, Michelle Kathleen Dunaway

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How can librarians provide effective research instruction to groups of students with widely varying information competencies? How can we engage students in the process of creating library instruction that responds to their individual learning needs? This presentation will demonstrate the process of using assessment-elicited evidence of students' information literacy skills to tailor each instruction session based on the information proficiencies of the students in each instruction session. Using formative assessment in one-shot library instruction sessions makes information literacy instruction significantly more practical for students, and therefore improves students' learning.

Information Visualization And Keyword Searching, Matt Conner, Melissa Browne

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The session will provide an overview of advances in visual literacy and their relevance to library instruction and focus on the sub-field of information visualization as an emerging area that synthesizes trends in computer science, education, and psychology. Information visualization will then be related to the search behaviors of users which appear to be deteriorating under the influence of the internet. Three graphical pedagogies (based on information visualization) for teaching the generation of keywords will be discussed. The session will end with an update on research underway to test the effectiveness of the three pedagogies.

Muchos Mentores En Iowa: The Pedagogy Of Student To Student Mentoring In Information Literacy, Julia Bauder, Beth Bohstedt, Phillip Jones

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At Grinnell College we believe that students can be the best teachers and that lasting learning also happens outside of the classroom. The Grinnell College Libraries' peer mentoring program is rooted in these beliefs. Our program has two components: advanced research help provided by reference assistants (RAs) at the reference desk; and basic information service provided by all students working at our public service desks. Throughout this presentation, attendees will be challenged to consider if peer information service is appropriate for their libraries and to articulate initial steps to explore and implement such a service.

Picture This: A Show-Me-To-Win-Me-Over Method Of Visually Indexing Strategic Research Instruction, Eloisa Gomez Borah

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What if you could show a single image which instantly summarized your one-hour instruction session? Short attention spans could be conquered, and your library instruction could jump right into the prescribed search strategies. Despite the proven strategy of using pictures to say a thousand words, most library instruction Web pages, handouts, slides, and other instructional materials are still text-only or mostly textual. See how employing visual indexing of information can be a powerful tool to help your users remember the instruction provided in both your online and live tutorials. Learn how this method has been winning over users. Take away …

Singing The Praises Of Il: The Case Of A Required Credit-Bearing Il Music Course, Paul J. Neff

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This presentation will focus on Music 228 -- the required credit-bearing discipline-specific information literacy course for undergraduate music students at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Augustana students in both the Bachelor of Arts (Music) and Bachelor of Music degrees are required to take this course (preferably in their 2nd year of study) to graduate. This presentation will include discussion of the course structure, example assignments and practical advice. Commentary will be offered regarding the course components including, but not limited to: understanding information, using the library catalogue, interdisciplinary and subject specific database searching, …

Library Instruction Credibility: How Do We Establish It? How Do We Publicize It?, Frances A. May, Yunfei Du

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What I would like to propose is not a presentation but a strategy session. Over the ten years I have spent as an instruction librarian, I have come to realize that what we need is quantitative data showing the benefits that students derive from library instruction. It needs to be gathered and published in non-library forums, such as educational or subject specific journals. Once the benefits are publicized and understood by educators and faculty, we may be able to move beyond the fifty minute, one shot instruction session, and make an information literate society a reality.

To do this, we …

Lose The Lists! Elevating Your Libguides To A New Level, Andrea Falcone, Lyda Ellis

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This ain't your mama's LibGuide! Ready to think outside the box? Want to empower your students? A sampling of institutions reveals a clear focus for Libguides - lists, lists, and more lists! No one contests the informative value of this design, yet these Libguides often lack instructional components essential to student success. Break the Libguides mold! Discover how to create an instructional platform that addresses various learning styles. Informed by focus group data, develop a toolkit to elevate your LibGuides to a new level. This interactive session will help you lose the lists and empower your students today!

Pirate Maps, Tattoos, And Flus: Using A Problem-Based Format To Teach Information Literacy Skills, Emily Buzicky, Kerri Shaffer Carter

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This workshop will introduce attendees to the basics of problem-based learning (PBL). Participants will have the opportunity to create a lesson plan for a PBL session while working in a PBL environment. The workshop will focus on creating learning objectives, creating PBL prompts, facilitating discussion, and leading a de-briefing session. PBL activities complement information literacy sessions because they ask the student to actively demonstrate competencies, and allow the instructor to act as a "guide on the side."

Problem-Solving Skills For Librarians, Cindy Batman, Lesley Tsuchiya, Megan Treseder

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Every time a librarian conducts a reference interview, does research for a patron, teaches a workshop or bibliographic instruction session, that librarian is modeling good problem solving skills. When the same librarian is faced with the challenge of a micromanager, a coworker who is a trouble maker, or team workers who are not working, immobility sets in. These problems seem insurmountable. The same discipline and strong learning skills that propelled the librarian through graduate school, the good written and oral presentation abilities, and the critical thinking demonstrated every time librarians answer a question, are still there. Librarians are just little …

Rethinking The Instruction Session Handout, Ashlynn Wicke

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Handouts can be more than just copies of PowerPoint slides printed in handout mode. Handouts can include descriptions of resources, search strategies, and activities created for a specific library instruction session. Creating paper handouts may appear low tech compared to creating online content and reaching out to students via social networks and course management systems. However, handouts can appeal to visual and kinesthetic learners. During the summer and fall of 2010, instruction librarians at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) experimented with ways to better utilize instruction session handouts to include critical information while incorporating active learning exercises, database comparison …

The Teaching Librarian's Toolkit, Amy Harris Houk, Jenny Dale

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Engaging students is critical to maximizing the effectiveness of information literacy sessions. But when you're faced with heavy teaching loads, back-to-back sessions, and balancing your other professional responsibilities, it can seem that there's never enough time to develop effective, engaging, and creative classroom activities. Enter the Teaching Librarian's Toolkit - flexible, modular activities that can be mixed and matched to align with student learning outcomes and enhance your information literacy sessions. In this interactive workshop, you'll participate in sample activities, share your strategies, and develop a sample lesson plan to use or adapt in your teaching.

Intergenerational Mobility Across Three Generations In The United States From 1880-1920, Amber Schrubey

All Theses

This thesis studies the transmission of human capital across generations. Intergenerational mobility explains the link between parent and child outcomes and is analyzed in this study using the human capital transmission models of Becker and Tomes (1986, 1979) and Solon (2012); and the child labor and school attendance model of Orazem and Funnarsson (2004). Data for this study comes from the IPUMS Linked Representative Sample years 1880-190 where school attendance and occupation were analyzed for the primary linked male as well as their father, mother spouse, and children. Analysis of the data suggests significant determinants of a child attending school …

Brave New World Reloaded: Advocating For Basic Constitutional Search Protections To Apply To Cell Phones From Eavesdropping And Tracking By Government And Corporate Entities, Mark Berrios-Ayala

HIM 1990-2015

Imagine a world where someone’s personal information is constantly compromised, where federal government entities AKA Big Brother always knows what anyone is Googling, who an individual is texting, and their emoticons on Twitter. Government entities have been doing this for years; they never cared if they were breaking the law or their moral compass of human dignity. Every day the Federal government blatantly siphons data with programs from the original ECHELON to the new series like PRISM and Xkeyscore so they can keep their tabs on issues that are none of their business; namely, the personal lives of millions. Our …

Connecting The Dots: Understanding Migration In The Context Of Other Periods Of The Annual Cycle, Kristina Lee Paxton

Dissertations

Migration is a fundamental characteristic of the life history of many organisms. Large-scale seasonal movements expose migratory species to an array of differing environmental conditions such that the ecology, behavior, and life history strategies of migratory species must balance selection pressures associated with each phase of the annual cycle. Therefore, scientists increasingly realize that to understand the ecology of a migratory species in any one phase of the annual cycle requires an understanding of how other phases may interact with and influence the period of interest. That said, following individuals throughout the year poses a serious challenge.

The focus of …