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“Wow-I Can Touch That?” Using Special Collections To Expand Information Literacy, Catherine Rod, Phil Jones

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

What happens when undergraduates get their hands on a nineteenth-century stereoscope, a first edition of _Tom Jones_, and 100-year-old student handbooks during an information literacy session? And what do these students learn through analyzing primary sources that can sharpen their responses to other kinds of scholarly evidence?

To answer these questions, participants in this interactive workshop will recreate an instruction session developed by librarians at Grinnell College using surrogates of primary sources to prompt discussion of any source's audience, authorship, reliability, and purpose. This workshop will begin with an overview of how librarians at Grinnell, a small liberal arts institution, …

Understanding Fracture, Allison Marsh

Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving

No abstract provided.

Wall_1.6 — Acknowledgements, Allison Marsh

Section 1: Introduction

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University Presses And Ebooks: A New Horizon, Sue Polanka

University Libraries' Staff Publications

What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. EBook Buzz will explore varied topics from a practical perspective, whether celebrating successes, exploring opportunities, or sorting through the challenges of ebook adoption. This inaugural column will explore the transformation to ebooks by university presses.

Academic library monograph budgets tell a bleak story. Discretionary funds and approval plans have slowly decreased, favoring instead subscription products and big deal journal collections. It's both alarming for librarians to watch and impossible for publishers to ignore. University presses, owners of the …

Waiting For The Future, Rick Provine

Library Faculty publications

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Program-Integrated Information Literacy (Piil) In A Hospital's Nursing Department: A Practical Model, Carlos Arguelles

Publications and Research

This article provides a systematic description of a strategy to integrate information literacy into programs that support professional development in hospitals' nursing departments. Four phases are explained: preparatory, planning, implementation, and evaluation. It suggests that librarians must go beyond the basic one-time instruction workshops to a collaborative model working with nursing management so that nurses and nursing students will use information resources as part of their learning process and obtain the needed skills to be information literate, users of evidence-based information, and life-long learners. The literature reviews the concept of informatics in nursing practice and some of the different …

Reviews, Debra Branson March, Christine De Catanzaro, Heather Oswald, Joshua Kitchens, Angela Flenner, Sarah Dorpinghaus, Carol Waggoner-Angleton, Virginia Ellison, Jennifer Dixon, Kate Pope, Heather Gilbert

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Provenance Xxx, Cheryl Oestreicher

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

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Full Circle, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

The author looks back on twenty-five years of working in libraries, and reflects on how some duties have not changed.

Multicultural Picture Books: Windows And Mirrors, Dawn M. Goodale

Graduate Research Papers

Multicultural children’s picture books offer readers views into far away places that can be similar or very different from that of the reader. These picture books can be used to enhance the Social Studies curriculum by offering students new perspectives on other cultures. The researcher employed the five dimensions of global perspectives developed by Robert G. Hanvey (1976) and criteria from the Iowa Core Curriculum Social Studies Standards (grades 3-5), to determine the titles that best exemplified the criteria. Review of related literature included the topics of multicultural education, multicultural literature and reader-text-relationships. The project consists of an annotated bibliography …

Tennessee Archivist 35, No. 1, Society Of Tennessee Archivists

Tennessee Archivist newsletters

Winter 2012 issue of the Tennessee Archivist, a newsletter produced by the Society of Tennessee Archivists.

Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2012, Seaall

Newsletters

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Southeastern Law Librarian Special Election Edition 2012-2013, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Academic Librarians In Second Life, Denise Cote, Beth Kraemer, Diane Nahl, Robin Ashford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

The multi-user virtual world Second Life is an online software platform that allows users to jointly explore realistic three-dimensional environments via avatar characters, communicate via voice and text chat, and collaborate using shared creation tools. Librarians and educators have been developing academic content and services in Second Life for use with students and other constituency groups since 2005. This study surveyed academic librarians working in Second Life to discover their perceptions of virtual world environments for teaching and learning and to gauge the impact of this technology on their work with faculty and students. Sixty-two librarians provided details on various …

The Yin And Yang Of Personality Types, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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[Review Of] Disaster Response And Planning For Libraries, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

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[Review Of] I, Digital: Personal Collections In The Digital Era, Sarah Dorpinghaus

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 3 Winter 2012, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Law Via The Internet: Report On The Conference, Yemisi Dina

Articles & Book Chapters

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York hosted the LVI (Law via the Internet) 2012. The conference also marked the twentieth anniversary of the LIIs (Legal Information Institutes) of the world, which have grown exponentially. The anniversary was not a cake-eating celebration but a two-day deliberation with members of an open access society who have been striving to make legal information freely available on the Internet. Many of the speakers at the sessions shared their experiences from the different projects they have been working on over the past twenty years or more, and the LIIs continue to improve. It was …

Preparing For The 21st Century: Academic Library Realignment, Jennifer Nutefall, Faye A. Chadwell

University Libraries Publications

The purpose of this article is to communicate how an academic library can establish and implement a realignment process to prepare itself to serve users in the 21st century. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employed a case study approach to present the challenges of realigning an academic library. They describe the collaborative and interactive process that OSU Libraries undertook to envision what a 21st century academy library might demand and to realign its units to support this vision. They summarize the positive outcomes of this process and provide an overview of what next steps might be. Findings – A combination of …

Academic Libraries Supporting The Research Needs Of Student Veterans: A Bibliography, Rebecca Arzola

Publications and Research

The number of Student Veterans entering higher education is growing especially after the passing of the new Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008. Veterans are using their educational benefits and transitioning from a military to civilian environment. In order to meet the needs of student veterans, administrators, faculty and staff are trying to make available support services for veterans. There is a range of services that can be provided and the library is one that can provide both a physical and virtual environment to support veterans. Although not always mentioned in articles on student veteran transition, it is important that libraries …

Brave New Library World: Lending E-Readers And E-Books In An Urban Academic Library, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, Adelaide Soto

Publications and Research

In Fall 2009, the Leonard Lief Library of Lehman College developed a pilot e-reader and e-book lending program, making Lehman the first campus within the City University of New York (CUNY) to introduce these new services. The following article describes the project from a practical viewpoint, discussing e-reader and e-book vendor selection, user guides, training, lending logistics, and marketing, as well as other unanticipated challenges.

Mobile Information Literacy Let's Use An App For That!, Stefanie Havelka, Alevtina Verbovetskaya

Publications and Research

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Loex 2012 Conference Report: Columbus, Oh, Clinton K. Baugess, Jessica Clemons

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Summary of plenary and breakout sessions of the 40th annual LOEX conference in Columbus, Ohio on May 3-5, 2012.

Science Librarians Analysis Of The 2011 Nobel Prize In Physics: The Work Of Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, And Adam G. Riess, Michael Fosmire, Debra Kolah

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded to scientists from two different research collaborations that independently and contemporaneously discovered from observations of distant supernovae that the universe's expansion is accelerating. One half of the prize was awarded to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. The findings, first reported in 1998, shocked the cosmology community, as the prevailing theory at the time favored a “closed” or “steady-state” universe, rather than one wherein the universe expands faster and faster, ultimately ending as a cold, dark, (largely) empty space. It was, perhaps, fortuitous …

Ua12/2/1/5 Teachers College Heights Index, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Teachers College Heights was an early newspaper created by WKU for advertising and recruitment purposes. The publication is available on microfilm in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room.

Bridging The Gap: Building A Community College—Lis School Partnership, Don Latham, Melissa Gross

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

Many community college students begin their studies with the intention of ultimately continuing their education at a four-year school. However, students who enter community college with non-proficient information literacy (IL) skill levels often find it difficult if not impossible to make a successful transition. This presentation will describe a collaborative research project funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services that focuses on developing effective information literacy instruction for community college students with non-proficient IL skills and involves academic librarians at two community colleges and faculty from an ALA-accredited LIS school. The presentation will briefly describe the project itself …

Nformation Lteracy: Taking The ‘I’ Out Of Instruction, Suzanne W. Hinnefeld, Tiffany Mcgregor, Julie Zamostny, Erin Davis, Joe Eshleman

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

Do you spend too much time behind the podium during your instruction sessions? This presentation will provide opportunities for learning and discussion on four activities designed to move you out among your students.

You will learn how a courtroom-like environment with music, props, and costuming was created at Hood College for an ESL English class to guide students through the steps of brainstorming keywords, utilizing databases, and organizing information for an argument.

A librarian from Goshen College will offer recommendations on planning a large-scale, themed, open-house; a timeline for completion; assessment of student learning; and post-event evaluation.

The Coordinator of …

Lolcats And Celebrities And (Red Panda) Bears – Oh, My!, Mary T. Moser

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

Getting - and keeping - students' attention during library instruction sessions is an increasingly Herculean task. We all know the best practices for teaching: be engaging, ask questions, provide opportunities for active learning. But what if those techniques just aren't enough? By experimenting wildly with the presentation of my library instruction sessions, I have found that a lot of teaching power lies within the unexpected. Often, topics with very little direct correlation to libraries make interesting and engaging platforms for teaching information literacy concepts. Some of the add-ons I have used in classes include: slideshows of LOLcat pictures to impart …

Step Away From The Podium! A Lesson Plan For Peer Learning, Andrea Falcone

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

Ready to revamp the way you teach the library catalog and general databases? Learn how to turn the typical lecture session on its head and ensure each class is different from the last. This versatile lesson can easily be sliced and diced into separate lessons. Attendees will be exposed to numerous attention-getting activities and a plan chock full of teaching moments. The combination of game-like activities, exploratory learning, and presentations will generate a buzz amongst your students. During the presentation, attendees may engage with the content by responding to online polls with their personal mobile devices or laptops. All lesson …