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Moving Students To The Center Through Collaborative Documents In The Classroom, Maura A. Smale, Stephen Francoeur

Publications and Research

Collaborative document creation allows groups of people to create and edit text in a shared space, and educators across all subject areas have embraced these tools in their classes. Library instructors are no exception—the authors have used collaborative documents with students in multiple instructional settings. We believe that collaborative documents can embody critical pedagogy in the library classroom. Creating and editing collaborative documents can acknowledge students’ prior experiences with research and the library and de-center the library instructor as the sole research expert in the room.

Is Authority Always Constructed And Contextual? A Classical Challenge To The Framework For Information Literacy, Nathan Rinne

The Christian Librarian

The 2015 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (or Framework) is the latest effort of academic librarians to provide relevant guidance for the teaching of information literacy. One claim made within this “living document,” in line with current academic trends of constructivism and social constructivism, is that “Authority is Constructed and Contextual.” Questions are raised concerning authority’s relationship to the idea of truth, and an effort is made, largely through a Socratic method of inquiry, to delve into the meaning of the Framework’s statement on authority using the further explanations provided concerning this particular “frame,” as well as the …

Finding And Reading Reports Of Research: How Academic Librarians Can Help Students Be More Successful, Dian Walster, Deborah Charbonneau, Kafi D. Kumasi

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Scavenging For Research Ingredients, Jessica Hronchek

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: A Frame For Engaging Undergraduates In Scholarly Communication, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Scholarly Publications

Author's accepted manuscript of a chapter published in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation (Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, eds.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Anonymized Data Analyzed In Paula R. Dempsey And Heather Jagman. 2016. “I Felt Like Such A Freshman”: First-Year Students Crossing The Library Threshold. Portal: Libraries And The Academy 16.1: 89-107., Paula Dempsey, Heather Jagman

Staff Publications - University Libraries

Anonymized data analyzed in Paula R. Dempsey and Heather Jagman. 2016. “I Felt Like Such a Freshman”: First-Year Students Crossing the Library Threshold. portal: Libraries and the Academy 16.1: 89-107.DePaul University Institutional Review Board Research Protocol # HJ081313ADM To request permission for further research and non-commercial publication, email Paula Dempsey: [email protected] License for educational purposes is granted with attribution. 

Leveraging Our Trust: Taking Action In Support Of Our Democracy, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

Librarians need to build on their trusted status to be more actively engaged in activities that support our democratic system whose success relies on having an informed citizenry. These activities including teaching media literacy skills to patrons in the library as well as in the schools in partnership with teachers. In addition, libraries should be facilitating community conversations and promoting a wide variety of community collaborations that get people engaged and out of their isolated bubbles.

Research Practices Survey 2015-16, Gould Library Reference And Instruction Department

Staff and Faculty Work

2015 marks the first year of Carleton's participation in the Research Practices Survey sponsored by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS). The HEDS Consortium is comprised of a nationwide group of private colleges and universities, who collaboratively collect and share data institutional data.

The HEDS Research Practices Survey is uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) competency standards in information literacy to assess student information literacy as well as student research experience. The five-section survey takes roughly fifteen minutes to complete.

Entering first year students were asked to take this survey at the beginning of fall term, …

Resistance Is Fertile: (Or Everything I Know About Teaching I Learned In Yoga Class) (Chapter 23), Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Looking at yoga from the outside, it seems like it’s about trying to contort yourself into awkward pretzel shapes. But from the inside, it is really about the awareness that arises when you try to ease your body into scary and unusual places. Does this sound a little like reflective teaching?

Be aware of discomfort, the resistance to discomfort, and even the resistance to being aware of discomfort—we can use this awareness in our classrooms just as we do on the yoga mat. What if we envision our class organically, as if it were a body moving through different postures? …

Visual Literacy For Libraries: A Practical, Standards- Based Guide, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Making Information Literacy Flexible And Re-Mixable: Instructional Designers And Librarians Collaborate In The Canvas Learning Management System, Catherine Baird

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Impact Of Government Documents And Data Information Literacy Instruction On Life-Long Learning And Student Success, Darren Sweeper

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

This poster focuses on assessing the impact of Government Documents and data information literacy instruction on life-long learning and student success for graduate students in the Masters of Public Health program at Montclair State University. Using a multi-modal assessment process that included measuring the outcomes of one-shot information literacy classes, combined with embedded online research guides, and one-to-one research appointments with the Government Documents librarian. This project sought to demonstrate the relevance of data information literacy instruction while promoting life-long learning using government documents with students in the Community Health Education Concentration. The project also demonstrates the value of the …

Supplemental Materials For Building Data And Information Literacy In The Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum, Yasmeen Shorish, Barbara A. Reisner

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Faculty Scholarship

Course syllabus from Chem 481, Fall 2015, to supplement the chapter "Building Data and Information Literacy in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum" in the monograph Integrating Library and Information Literacy Into Chemistry Curricula - ACS Symposium Series, ACS Publications.

Building Data And Information Literacy In The Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum, Yasmeen Shorish, Barbara A. Reisner

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Faculty Scholarship

The Literature and Seminar sequence at James Madison University has been used to develop the chemistry information literacy skills of chemistry majors for over four decades. These courses have been continually updated to emphasize information literacy skills for the twenty-first century. This chapter describes the methods that have been developed to improve chemical, data and general information literacy at a large, public, primarily undergraduate institution. The focus of the first semester course, described in this chapter, is on skill building rather than teaching specific resources. It is a model of integration and collaboration between chemistry faculty and chemistry librarians. Changes …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - January 2016, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

No abstract provided.

What Standards Do And What They Don't, Emily Drabinski, Meghan Sitar

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

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Collaborating For Success: A Case Study On Mentoring, Partnering, And Teaching, Megan N. Kellner, Nedelina Tchangalova, Rachel W. Gammons, Alexander J. Carroll, Devon C. Payne-Sturges

Collaborative Librarianship

Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) graduates seeking employment in academic libraries are often expected to possess user instruction and public service skills. However, it is difficult for students to achieve this experience through coursework alone. To address this disconnect, librarians at the University of Maryland (UMD) College Park Libraries created a Research and Teaching Fellowship to allow MLIS students at UMD to gain practical instruction experience. The authors present the experience of one MLIS student in collaboration with a subject librarian and a faculty member to plan, implement, and assess an information literacy instruction session for an undergraduate …

Zines In The Classroom: Critical Librarianship And Participatory Collections, Robin Potter, Alycia Sellie

Publications and Research

This lesson plan outlines using zines in a library classroom with a critical pedagogy approach. It was written based upon the teaching each author did with the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection.

The Prototype Case Designed For Case-Based-Learning In Bio 201, Junli Diao

Open Educational Resources

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Where Should These Books Go?, Haruko Yamauchi

Publications and Research

Designed for pre-college and first-year students new to conducting independent research, this is a lesson plan for an activity that is part of a workshop to strengthen students’ skills in using books for research. The activity includes small groups coming to consensus about a hypothetical shelf order for a set of books, and a larger class discussion about the Library of Congress call number system as a useful-to-know but ultimately arbitrary system created within a particular historical context. Chapter within the Assocation of College and Research Association’sCritical Library Pedagogy Handbook, vol. 2.