Faculty - Library Collaboration and 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.