Faculty - Library Collaboration

In this 37 minute podcast, we feature the opening plenary session from the ELI Fall 2007 Focus Session. The speaker is Craig Gibson, Associate University Librarian at George Mason University. His speech is entitled, "Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy"

The family of literacies now promoted in higher education (information literacy, IT fluency, and media and visual literacies) continues to multiply. These educational agendas call for more pervasive collaboration among all stakeholders (faculty, administrators, librarians, technologists, student life staff, assessment specialists, and others) because of conceptual and programmatic linkages and convergences among them. The blending of these literacies can become a catalyst that taps into student learning and engagement at a deep level and effects cultural change within and across institutions.

The latest EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) study, “IT Collaboration: Multi-Institutional Partnerships to Develop, Manage, and Operate IT Resources,” explores multi-institutional collaboration in terms of the types of information technology collaborations in higher education and the practices associated with positive outcomes. It is available to ECAR subscribers and through purchase, but the key findings and roadmap are publicly available.

This 51 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Building an Online Learning Community for "Blended" Librarians.

This 54 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Getting IDEAS: Liberal Arts Colleges Collaborating on Digital Collections for Asian Studies.

This 36 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Transformations: Mount Holyoke's Class Project Becomes a Digital Archive.

In this 26 minute recording, we'll hear from Purdue's Dean of Libraries, James L. Mullins.  He'll share some thoughts about  marketing in libraries, research library consolidation, Purdue's new Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, and about the changing dynamics for librarians supporting research.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org