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Volume 2, Issue 7, August 2009, Parkland College

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Volume 2, Issue 11, December 2009, Parkland College

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Business Liaison Collaboration: A Case Study, Angel Clemons, Fannie Cox, Glenda Neely, Mark Paul

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The academic library has always been known as a place to go for a book, journal article, or item on reserve. During the past decade the format of these sources has changed from primarily print resources to a mix of print and electronic. Traditional resources and services have expanded to become electronically available from one’s desktop. Accessing online scholarly materials is challenging for both the librarian and faculty member. But while the tools of scholarly research have changed, the need for library instruction remains: “Since most faculty find it difficult to keep up with the rapid growth in electronic information …

Using Technology To Support Faculty And Enhance Coursework In Academic Institutions, Jeremy W. Donald

Library Faculty Research

The article offers tips on how use technology to support faculty and to enhance coursework in academic institutions in Texas. It states that communication and trust building are the first step to successful collaborations. Moreover, learning goals of the faculty member for the assignment must be determined. Furthermore, parameters and limitations of the project must also be determined.

Conference Program [2009], Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Outlook, December 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 12

Information Outlook, November 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 11

The Economics Of Open Access, Christopher V. Hollister

Communications in Information Literacy

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Teaching Matters: Developing As A Teacher/Librarian. Web 2.0: Opportunities For Information Literacy Instruction, Patrick P. Ragains

Communications in Information Literacy

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Teaching Near The Edge Of Chaos: Dynamic Systems, Student Choices And Library Research, Robert Hautala, Bryan Miyagishima

Communications in Information Literacy

This article is an investigation of the Dynamic Systems theory and its application to instruction and the learning process. Curricular suggestions are provided from the authors' collaborative uses of library instruction within university academic courses. These suggestions address the use of environmental (classroom) and task manipulations to provide students with choices within activities related to conducting literature reviews. A Four-Step Teaching Model, based on the "Ecological Task Analysis Model" (Davis and Burton, 1991), is also outlined, to give readers a step-by-step procedure to use when developing classroom curricula and delivery plans.

Development And Evolution Of An Information Literacy Course For A Doctor Of Chiropractic Program, Phyllis June Harvey, Karen Jo Goodell

Communications in Information Literacy

The authors report on the development and evolution of a required one-credit course in information literacy for a doctor of chiropractic program. Our experience can serve as a model for planning and designing information literacy courses for doctor of chiropractic and other graduate health sciences programs.

Information Literacy Education In The Uk: Reflections On Perspectives And Practical Approaches Of Curricular Integration, Susie Andretta, Alison Pope, Geoff Walton

Communications in Information Literacy

This paper has two main aims, to present the current position of information literacy education in UK-based academic institutions and to propose a strategy that ensures the integration of this phenomenon in learning and teaching institutional practices. The first part of the paper offers an insight into the perceptions of information literacy by exploring four distinct perspectives, including the institutional angle and the views associated with faculty staff, library staff and students. What transpires from the findings is that information literacy from an institutional perspective is dominated by the need to measure information skills within the context of information as …

First-Year Writing Teachers, Perceptions Of Students' Information Literacy Competencies, And A Call For A Collaborative Approach, Elizabeth Joy Birmingham, Luc Chinwongs, Molly Flaspohler, Carly Hearn, Danielle Kvanvig, Ronda Portmann

Communications in Information Literacy

Despite the shared work of teaching research and writing, research librarians and compositionists (writing teachers) have not engaged regularly in dialogue about how they might collaborate in this endeavor. This project surveyed English teachers at three institutions, a private liberal arts college, a public liberal arts college, and a land grant university, concerning their perceptions of their students' information literacy skills, as well as about the variety of strategies they used to introduce and reinforce information literacy competency in their classrooms. These strategies ranged from assigning a research project with little classroom or library support, to using up to ten …

Critical Thinking Is A Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study., Monica Berger

Publications and Research

This article describes a library workshop for freshman hospitality management students enrolled at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, which features a focus on critical thinking. An active learning experience uses an element of surprise. Students evaluate the website of a bankrupt company where information about the company’s situation is hidden or not present. When the instructor guides the class to find unbiased information from newspapers, many students begin to think critically about sources.

More Than Evaluation: Student Nurses And Their Ability To Assess Online Health Resources And Verbalize Findings, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Publications

Purpose The Internet poses both a frontier that represents the possibility for vast exploration and an open space that leaves patients wandering through unreliable information. The purpose of this study was to determine the abilities of first-year (Junior-standing) nursing students to choose, evaluate and then explain their findings in relation to health information on the Web.

Setting/Subjects 108 first-year nursing students in Foundations I at the University of Northern Colorado.

Methodology Content analysis of written papers.

Results Evaluation comprised of three cohorts (consisting of 36 students each) of first-year nursing students in Foundations I in their assessment of 216 websites. …

Principals Who Support Information Literacy Collaboartion Between Teachers And Media Specialist, Betty J. Morris

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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The Librarians Of The Technical College System Of Georgia And Their Response To Internet Filtering, Or How To Win Friends And Make Procedural Changes, Christina Teasley

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Students In Transition: The Library Of Congress Classification System As Initiation, June B. Joyner

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Life After Computer Literacy, Lavon Green

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Just Google It-Bringing Students’ Information Literacy To The Composition Classroom, Susanna Coleman

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Creative Rights Management For Intellectual Property In K-12, Dave Yates

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Teaching The Teacher: How To Integrate Information Literayc Into The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Sonya S. Shepherd

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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The Little Library Staff That Could, Holly Nisco, Kira Appel

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Ipods, Inquiry And Information Literacy Handouts, Louise Erickson, Brenda Davenport, Andrew Kearns

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Literacy Across Disciplines: Sociology, Modern Languages, Nursing, And Library Science, Leo Mundy, Elizabeth Combier, Michelle Byrne, Shawn Tonner

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Global Dissemination Of Scholarly Research Through Open Source System, Guili Zhang, Diane D. Kester, Elizabeth Swaggerty, William Grobe

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Plagiarism The Construct, The Research, The Response, Donna Gunter

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Using Libguides To Support Library Instruction, Leecy Barnett, Charles Kuhn, Susan, Montgomery

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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The Big 6 Goes To College, Ru Story-Huffman

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Learning English As A Second Language Outside The Box Creating “Hello!,” A Professional Student Newsletter, Bozena Apolonia Warchol

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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