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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

From Traditional Library Instruction To Collaborative Instruction: Charting The Course Toward Evidence-Based Practice, Pamela M. Corley, Julie K. Tilson

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This presentation will explore how a library’s academic liaison program led to a strong teaching partnership within an academic division. The goal of the liaison program is to provide an essential link between the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library and the University’s academic communities. This goal was achieved when a research support librarian teamed up with a professor of physical therapy to develop a curriculum for physical therapy students.

The objective of this teaching alliance was for first-year doctor of physical therapy students to learn basic skills for Evidence Based Practice. The collaboration combined the librarian's expertise in …

From Guest Lecturer To Assignment Consultant: Exploring A New Role For The Teaching Librarian, Kathleen Gallagher

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For many academic libraries, the library instruction session (or sessions), whether delivered on demand or integrated into strategically targeted courses, is still the cornerstone, the basic unit, of our information literacy programs. Within these programs the instructional role of the librarian often remains limited to that of “guest lecturer.” By rethinking this role and repositioning ourselves as consultants in assignment design, librarians can contribute to an array of deliverables more closely aligned with course goals and sharply honed to improve learning outcomes.

With examples drawn from a multi-disciplinary selection of courses, this session will focus on the process and products …

Developing A Gameplan: Libraries And Campus Athletic Departments, Bill Kelm, Diane Mizrachi, Marc Mason, Julie Tharp

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At a number of academic libraries, librarians have begun partnering with Athletic Departments to deliver information literacy to freshman athletes. This breakout session will present three different endeavors designed to meet the needs of the incoming student athlete.

UCLA’s College Library has recently expanded collaboration with their athletic department from an annual one-shot for incoming football players to an ongoing partnership integrating library instruction and awareness into the freshman football and basketball teams’ total academic experience.

Arizona State University faced two challenges: help student-athletes learn to use the Library's resources, and train their tutors and mentors. Every ASU freshman athlete …

Campus Collaboration To Build A Series Of Information Competency Workshops, Nancy Getty, Deborah Moore

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Over the past seven years Glendale Community College has developed a series of nine workshops that address the core competencies for information literacy at the College. This workshop program constitutes a unique model for delivering information competency instruction and could be adapted to any institutional setting. We have had many inquiries about how the program was developed and how it functions. We will present a session that includes a brief overview of the program, discusses the elements and collaboration important to its evolution, presents current quantitative research that indicates our level of success, and offers strategies to apply this approach …

Building Campus-Wide Information Literacy Programs, Lynn D. Lampert, Catherine Haras

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The reality of building a campus-wide information literacy program may vary from institution to institution but working programs all share important similarities. Librarians from California State University System campuses (Northridge and Los Angeles) - and Rider University will discuss their approaches and successes at both garnering support for and developing campus-wide information literacy programs that incorporate information literacy student learning outcomes into required General Education programming. The session will focus on how active service on university-wide curriculum, assessment and general education committees directly impacted and informed their libraries and campus information literacy programs and pedagogies. The presenters will demonstrate how …

A Collaborative Voyage To Improve Students' Career Information Literacy, Angela Farrar, Lateka Grays, Diane Vanderpol, Amanda Cox

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Librarians, a member of the Hotel College faculty, and a member of the Career Services staff at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas collaborated in the design, implementation and evaluation of a non-traditional research assignment asking students to demonstrate real world information literacy skills.

Session attendees will explore the process by which the traditional librarian-teaching faculty member collaboration grew into a richer project involving a non-traditional partnering. Attendees will be guided through a discussion on levels of collaboration and an audit of potential non-traditional partner opportunities at their own institutions.

Attendees will examine the product of this partnership: an assignment …

Brain Research And Education: Fad Or Foundation?, Pat Wolfe

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Plenary Speaker

Brain research is constantly providing new revelations about how the brain works and how we all learn. We now have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions. While many current educational practices fit well with the research, others run counter to what we are learning and pose significant challenges to those who work in schools. This session will provide a clear explanation of the most educationally significant research developments and will show how this research can be translated into everyday practice.

Preface, Brad Sietz

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The 35th annual LOEX conferences continued the tradition of bringing the best together in library instruction and information literacy, while also starting something new - LOEX’s first ever trip out to the West Coast. San Diego, California treated us well and provided a great venue to learn about the latest in library instruction. In particular, a focus for LOEX 2007 was reaching beyond the library and out to the community - whether that community is the rest of the university/college or is the city/town in which the library is located. Hopefully, as attendees go back to their libraries and implement …

Journals Not Included In Biosis Have A Notable Impact In Biology, Philip Barnett, Claudia Lascar

Publications and Research

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[Review Of] The Eloquent Shakespeare: A Pronouncing Dictionary For The Complete Dramatic Works With Notes To Untie The Modern Tongue, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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File Formats 101, Kathryn Lybarger

Library Presentations

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1 Summer 2009, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

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

Faculty and Staff Publications

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 …