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Information Outlook, September 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 9

Information Outlook, August 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 8

Information Outlook, July 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 7

Internet Resources - The Electoral College, Political Parties, And Elections: Sites To Help You Through The Voting Process, Beth Jane Toren

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Most political party sites have two main themes, information and action. They provide information about the party platform, history, and news, and they offer opportunities to get involved in the action by volunteering, contributing, joining, and telling friends. This article contains annotations to selected free sites and Internet resources that provide information about the electoral college, political parties, and the 2004 federal elections.

Information Literacy: Time For A Comprehensive Plan, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. Macdonald, Barbara Kenney, Jim Kinnie, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Press release from the American Library Association announcing pre-conference, "Information Literacy: Time for a Comprehensive Plan," to be held at the 2004 ALA Conference in Orlando, Florida on July 25, 2004.

"Using a workbook created by the preconference presenters, participants will be guided through the process of creating a comprehensive information literacy plan, and will learn how to identify and apply essential elements in constructing a successful long-term plan. Participants will leave the session with an outline and draft plan for their home institutions."

Information Outlook, June 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 6

Information Outlook, May 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 5

The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi

Library Faculty Presentations

Shifting Library Culture:

- Traditional Model
- New Model

Some In-house Strategies:

- focus on instruction as related to collections
- redefine role of liaison
- clarify expectations — link to performance review
- provide professional development
- build prestige (rewards) around instruction
- emphasize faculty voices

Information Outlook, April 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 4

Approaches To Teaching Through Digital Reference, Lisa A. Ellis

Publications and Research

As “teaching libraries,” many academic libraries are committed to teaching not only in classrooms but also at the reference desk. As reference has expanded to include digital modes of e-mail and chat, reference librarians are prompted to consider approaches to teaching in these new reference venues in ways that are meaningful to the user. A promising approach to teaching through digital reference is the application of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. This paper presents some challenges and benefits of teaching via digital reference. Practical methods for promoting self-directed learning by examining online instruction, and suggestions for effectively advancing a …

Information Outlook, March 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 3

Information Outlook, February 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 2

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Rosemary Chance, University Of Southern Mississippi

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the thirty-seventh annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2004.

Discipline-Based Information Literacy: Experience, Themes And Recommendations, Carolyn Sanford, Mary Savina

Staff and Faculty Work

In 2000 Carleton received a three-year Mellon grant to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, focusing on the 5 discipline majors: Classical Languages, Economics, English, Geology and History.

Carolyn from Library and Mary from Geology presented their experience, themes and recommendations at Minnesota Library Association October 7, 2004.

Review Of Bad Boy Of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story, By Russ Cheatham, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

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Institutions Of Learning Or Havens For Illegal Activities: How The Supreme Court Views Libraries, 25 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1 (2004), Raizel Liebler

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

The role of libraries in American society is varied: libraries act as curators and repositories of American culture's recorded knowledge, as places to communicate with others, and as sources where one can gain information from books, magazines and other printed materials, as well as audio-video materials and the Internet. Courts in the United States have called libraries "the quintessential locus of the receipt of information, "'places that are "dedicated to quiet, to knowledge, and to beauty," and "a mighty resource in the free marketplace of ideas." These positive views of libraries are often in sharp contrast with views by some …

Conference Program [2004], Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Review Of Encyclopedia Of Population, Ed. By Paul Demeny And Geoffrey Mcnicoll, Rebecca Tolley

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Encyclopedia of Population. Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll Macmillan Reference USA. 2003. 2v, 0-02-865677-6, $240.00

Information Outlook, January 2004, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2004

Volume 8, Issue 1

Information Outlook, December 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

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Information Outlook, November 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

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Information Outlook, October 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

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Don’T Drown — Catch The Wave: Instruction At The Valley Library, P. S. Mcmillen

Library Faculty Research

As many readers will no doubt be aware, librarians at OSU have done one-to-one and classroom instruction tor many years. However, 3S the information landscape changes, so do the students' needs tor learning how to navigate that ever-changing landscape. The rapidly increasing migration of print resources to electronic form removes many of the contextual and visual cues that alerted earlier users to the authority, accuracy, comprehensiveness, point of view, or other indicators by which to judge the quality of information sources. As the experts in the organization, access, and dissemination of information, librarians have stepped forward to teach students how …

Usability Of E-Journals And Preference For The Virtual Periodicals Room: A Survey Of Mathematics Faculty And Graduate Students, Lutishoor Salisbury, Emilio Noguera

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

Introduction

Using several variables, the University of Arkansas Libraries conducted a survey in 2002 to measure the nature and extent of journal use in the Mathematics Reading Room, the Virtual Periodicals Room and Mullins Library.

The aims of this survey were two-fold: firstly, to collect information on the current level of support for electronic-only journals to aid in collection development, and secondly, to ascertain whether a Virtual Periodicals Room is a viable alternative to the physical Reading Room for the Mathematics faculty.

Conclusion

It is obvious from the results of the survey that greater use is being made of the …

Digital Reference Evaluation: Assessing The Past To Plan For The Future, J. B. Hill, Cherie Madarash-Hill, Ngoc Pham Thi Bich

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

Historically, libraries have routinely evaluated their reference services both quantitatively and qualitatively. With the increasing volume of digital reference transactions, there is a need to modify and apply to digital reference, the same evaluation techniques that have been used successfully in the evaluation of traditional reference service. At Southeastern Louisiana University, a recent evaluation of the library's Ask a Librarian digital reference service included an unobtrusive observation of current practice through a detailed examination of archived reference transactions, as well as an assessment of future needs through a survey of users. Through this evaluation, it was possible to assess the …

Bibliographic Instruction: Two Models Converging In A Common Goal, Stephen J. Shaw

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

Introduction

This essay will explore research in the undergraduate curriculum by examining the divergent ways research is understood. The debate centers around the ways that the typical student perceives the role of the library in her education at the university. To limit the discussion to the relation between the student and the librarian misses the larger issue at stake. What needs does the average undergraduate have after completion of the B.A., if they have no plans to continue education further? Are research skills necessary only for the graduate student, or is there some truth to the humanistic notion of 'knowledge …

Computer Literacy: Necessity Or Buzzword?, Scott Childers

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

While the concept of computer literacy has existed for some time, the name has certainly changed. Whatever the name, the concept of computer literacy still has merit. By looking at the history of the computer literacy movement for grounding, we can build a definition for the next century and affirm that learning computer basics is a good thing for library staff to do.

The term computer literacy seems to have faded from library literature, but has the belief that the general populace should possess a basic computer-skill level faded as well? Have we already achieved this nebulous goal, or has …

Information Outlook, September 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 9

Information Outlook, August 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 8

Information Outlook, July 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 7