Faculty - Library Collaboration, Presented at ELI Meetings
Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy
| Title: | Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy (ID: ELI07302) | | Author(s): | Craig Gibson (George Mason University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (08/15/2007) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | 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. | | View this resource: | |
Planning for Ecological Diversity in New Learning Environments: Interoperability Between Libraries and Course Management Systems
| Title: | Planning for Ecological Diversity in New Learning Environments: Interoperability Between Libraries and Course Management Systems (ID: NLI0415) | | Author(s): | Louis E. King (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and Brian Nielsen (Northwestern University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2004) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | The wide acceptance of course management systems by our faculties offers technology innovators new opportunities for integrating a variety of information services into the CMS environment. Library services in particular, which complement traditional classroom learning activities, are being recognized as ripe for integration. In an effort to advance such integration opportunities, two working groups within the CIC (the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago) have been engaged in dialogue and planning for a regional conference on CMS/library services integration. The Learning Technologies Group (representing CIC IT organizations) and the Digital Library Initiative Overview Committee (representing the CIC libraries) have been working together to plan and execute the conference scheduled for mid-February 2004, with the objective of clarifying working vocabularies and ideas for services among the two communities of practice. This session will present the planning ideas that have informed the upcoming conference, seeking further input from the larger NLII community to further collaboration between library and IT organizations in new designs for library-CMS integration. | | View this resource: | |
Where's the Library for this Course? - Moving the Library to Where the Students Are
| Title: | Where's the Library for this Course? - Moving the Library to Where the Students Are (ID: NLI0315) | | Author(s): | John T. Harwood (The Pennsylvania State University) and Loanne Snavely (The Pennsylvania State University) | | Origin: | Presented at ELI Meetings (2003) | | Type: | Presentations/Speeches | | Abstract: | Every university library has developed a collection of resources to support faculty and students. Paper versions of guides to appropriate resources in the libraries' collections, variously called library guides, "on-focus series," or "how-to-locate series," have now been turned into Web-based guides. These documents have one thing in common: they are not easily distributed to, or found by, students when they need them. As a result, students do not acquire the kinds of research skills—we call it information fluency—that they need and instead rely on commercial search engines and the uneven resources of the Web. With the adoption of course management systems, universities have an extraordinary opportunity to place critical library resources onto students' desktops. This presentation describes how four units at Penn State collaborated to ensure that within a year, every section of every course that uses ANGEL, our Course Management System, will have easy access to library guides appropriate to that course, and that the e-reserves will be "pushed" to the students' desktops. By doing this project collaboratively, we answer the question posed by David Cohen in a recent "EDUCAUSE Review" article: "Course Management Software: Where's the Library?" The answer is, the library is where the courses are being taught. | | View this resource: | |
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