library based program offering learning workshops that are standardized to meet general education requirements across the curriculum while customized to address individual course objectives.
Why work so hard?
Effectively address the changing needs of students in the digital information age
Deliver basic bibliographic instruction to as many students as possible as needed
Promote meaningful, consistent and measurable use of library resources across the curriculum
Encourage Information Literacy goals and objectives across the curriculum in ways that are measurable and afford an opportunity for consistent normative and summative evaluation
Routinely contribute as an educator to the academic experience of students
Doing it everyday!
Library working together (generalists one and all)
Communication
Collaboration
Cooperation
Making use of the library web page for continuity & to address diverse learning styles
Creating subject/course resources
Post instruction content
Post support files
Committing to a work in progress
Relating what's there to what's new
Flexing with the needs and concerns of users
Applying constructivist teaching and learning theory using information literacy goals and objectives
Related readings…
Astin, Alexander W. "Competition or Cooperation." Change. Sept./Oct. 1994, pgs.12-19.
Dennis, N. & Harrington, N. D., Fall, 1990. "Librarian and Faculty Member Differences in Using Information Technologies." Reference Review Services, 18 (3), 47-51.
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier. Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services (Information Management, Policy, and Services), Norwood, NJ : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1993.
Herrington, V. J. "Way Beyond BI: a look to the future." Journal of Academic Librarians. V24, n5, 381 6 September 1998.
Johnassen, David, ed. Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996. Pgs. 170-198, 265-269 & 438-456.
Miller, Joyce. 1998. Factors Enhancing the Teaching of Information Literacy to Adirondack Community College Faculty. Dissertation. ERIC Documentation Service, ED424887, December 1, 1998.
Smith, Diane. "Plugging into Information Literacy" Teaching for Our Times: a journal of good teaching practice. Boston: Bunker Hill Community College, pgs. 107-117.
Related Web Sites…
NEBIC Annual Program 2000 Information Literacy into the Curriculum: Methods and Models for Librarians.