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Information Outlook, December 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 12

Photomicrographs, The Npr 100, And Student Teaching: Library Liaison Ideas That Really Work, Katherine Furlong, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

In 1997, Gettysburg College's Musselman Library revived a dormant liaison program. Librarians were assigned to each department and program on campus and expected to serve as the first point of library contact for the teaching faculty.

Some core communications and activities emerged that we now encourage every liaison to practice; attending department meetings, sending reviews of new materials, tracking faculty book orders, and visiting faculty offices are seen as standard liaison activities.

We were delighted to find that almost every librarian had some unique and interesting experiences to report. The authors collected these experiences so that they could be shared …

Information Outlook, November 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 11

Information Outlook, October 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 10

The Data Game: Colorado State University’S Animated Library Research Tutorial, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

The Data Game, produced by Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries, is a web-based multimedia tutorial designed to teach basic research skills. Using interactive contests and animated presentations, The Data Game introduces and reinforces essential ideas. This paper discusses the tutorial's design, construction, and implementation.

Information Outlook, September 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 9

Applying Information Competency To Digital Reference, Lisa A. Ellis, Stephen Francoeur

Publications and Research

Presented at the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference (2001), this paper presents a case for applying information competency (IC) standards to digital reference services at academic libraries. Practical reasons for applying standards or guidelines to e-mail and online chat reference services are given with some insight to the nature of digital reference interactions. The standards that arose from the information competency movement in academic libraries are described and offered as a touchstone for planning and designing digital reference services. The paper concludes with preliminary ideas for how IC standards could be applied to the provision of digital reference.

Information Outlook, August 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 8

Information Outlook, July 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 7

Changing Trends In Library Instruction, Mary Macdonald, Andrée Rathemacher, Joanna Burkhardt

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Sample teaching exercise presented during session "Changing Trends in Library Instruction," offered as part of the Rhode Island Library Association Spring Conference, New Directions, New Ideas for a New Century. The session was held on June 7, 2001 at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.

Information Outlook, June 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 6

Information Outlook, May 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 5

Information Outlook, April 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 4

Teaching Information Literacy In 50 Minutes A Week: The Crush Experience, Judith Faust

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

The development of information literacy is central to the academic success of undergraduates, yet few universities require formal, credit-bearing courses taught by librarians to ensure that students develop these lifelong learning skills and abilities. Where such courses do exist, they are often isolated in the curriculum and rarely linked to the General Education experience. This article describes a General Education program begun in 1998-1999 at California State University, Hayward (CSUH), in which a cohort of students and faculty spend the year exploring a common theme in a series of linked courses, which include an information literacy class. Librarians teach a …

Integrated Academic Student Support Services At Loyola University: The Library As A Resource Clearinghouse, Elizabeth Orgeron

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

Higher education has seen the emergence of new models of student support services. These models vary greatly, ranging from those that, for example, simply streamline the registration process, to others that base new building construction on studies done about the information and service access needs of students.

In the recent past, colleges and universities have felt the impact of significantly higher drop out rates among freshman, and they have made attempts to assuage these rising attrition rates. Through extensive study of college campus culture and student needs, many institutions are changing long-standing protocols and adding a technology rich, user friendly …

The Cobbler Wears No Shoes: A Lesson For Research Instruction, James B. Levy

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

An Online Competency Test For Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, And Results, Lynn Cameron, Rebecca Feind

Faculty and Staff Publications

Librarians, faculty, and assessment specialists at James Madison University (JMU) collaborated to develop an online Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) to measure competencies relating to information literacy. In this paper we will report on how we developed and implemented the test as a required competency for all first-year students in General Education. We will also report on test results, challenges in implementing a competency test for all freshmen, our training program for faculty, and our remediation program.

Information Outlook, March 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 3

Web Information Retrieval And Monitoring Using Adaptive Agent, Yuen Beng Chong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Internet is the information house. There are million of pages posted in the Internet, and still growing in exponential. Locate a web page, without a search engines, is like a blind explorer. There are many search engines in the existence world, but more new search engines is under construction. Each search engine has its advantage and disadvantage, depend on the need of the searchers. The projects aims to develop an agent, with some advanced features, to allow the searchers obtain the information from the Internet easily. The advanced features included, table of contents preview, chart of relevant, session review and …

Information Outlook, February 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 2

Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the thirty-third annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2001.

New Learners, New Models: Cultivating An Information Literacy Program, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Mary C. Macdonald, Joanna M. Burkhardt

Technical Services Faculty Publications

This is the authors' manuscript of chapter 21 in the book Library User Education: Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships, ed. Barbara I. Dewey, Scarecrow Press, 2001. It is posted here with publisher permission.

Information Outlook, January 2001, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2001

Volume 5, Issue 1

Champlin Grant Funds Wireless Classrooms, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Short article announcing that the University of Rhode Island Libraries received a $132,250 grant from the Champlin Foundations to fund the acquisition of mobile media carts networked to portable laptop computers.

Historical Fabrications On The Internet: Recognition, Evaluation, And Use In Bibliographic Instruction, John A. Drobnicki, Richard Asaro

Publications and Research

Although the Internet provides access to a wealth of information, there is little, if any, control over the quality of that information. Side-by-side with reliable information, one finds disinformation, misinformation, and hoaxes. The authors of this paper discuss numerous examples of fabricated historical information on the Internet (ranging from denials of the Holocaust to personal vendettas), offer suggestions on how to evaluate websites, and argue that these fabrications can be incorporated into bibliographic instruction classes.

The Personal Library And Indexing Management Information System (Plimis), Wai Kit Choong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Personal Library and Indexing Management Information System (PLIMIS) is an information system used to organize and manage personal collections of reading materials such as books, journals, journal articles, magazines, articles, dictionaries and CD-ROMs. The system allows easy searching and retrieving of the items in the collections as it adopts a systematic classification and indexing for the reading materials. This will save the time in searching a specific item. PLIMIS is designed for personal use and contains most of the features in the current library information systems. It provides user friendly interface and help to the users for easy using …

Teaching Intermediate Students Research And Critical Thinking Skills: Integrating Technology Into The Curriculum, Michelle Stach

All Graduate Projects

The focus of this project was to create specific activities that teach students how to research material and use their critical thinking skills to present a product. The project implements an integrated approach with an emphasis on the intermediate grades. Throughout this project the students will be exploring a variety of ways to acquire the knowledge ofresearching quality information. This project concentrates on integrating technology into the social studies and science curriculum. The final product encompasses research and critical thinking skills into an intermediate curriculum.

Developing, Marketing And Evaluating Web-Based Library And Information Skills Tutorials At Old Dominion University, Cynthia Wright Swaine

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Confronted with an expanding distance learning program, a growing set of student expectations, and recent changes in general education requirements, the Library Instruction Team at Old Dominion University is addressing the related needs for new approaches to library instruction by creating a series of web-based tutorials.Confronted with an expanding distance learning program, a growing set of student expectations, and recent changes in general education requirements, the Library Instruction Team at Old Dominion University is addressing the related needs for new approaches to library instruction by creating a series of web-based tutorials.

Desk Set: Ready Reference On The Web, Beth Juhl

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Women's Studies Action Research Projects Through Technology, Lucretia Mcculley

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article describes how library and Internet technology enhanced an action research assignment in a unique women’s studies program, Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), at the University of Richmond. The Women’s Studies Liaison Librarian and the Director of the WILL Program collaborated to provide a meaningful assignment that incorporated the use of online databases and the Internet. The main objective of the assignment was to provide a research opportunity whereby the students would learn to use electronic women’s studies resources and actually utilize the information into some type of social action, such as writing a letter, volunteering in …