Archive for 'Information Literacy'
Staying the Course
Classes started at my college last Thursday, officially bringing the winter intersession to an end. While the library was fairly quiet in January, I kept myself busy with a couple of big projects, including getting ready to teach our library’s first credit-bearing course this semester.
It’s been exciting (and, I admit it, a little scary) prepping [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on February 1st, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Teaching.
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What Can We Learn from “Lessons Learned”?
It has taken me way too long to get around to reading Project Information Literacy’s progress report, “Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in a Digital Age.” Some of the key findings from their survey of over 2,000 students:
–They spend a lot of time getting a grasp of context: the big picture, the [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 10th, 2010 under Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
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Latest NCES Data Shows Little IL Progress
In a post from August 2008 I shared some data straight out of a report titled Academic Libraries 2006 that presents tabulations for the 2006 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) conducted by the United States Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The data related to the percentage of libraries reporting information literacy activities [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 22nd, 2009 under Information Literacy.
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Encouraging Engagement
Right now we’re in the midst of our busiest time in the semester for instruction at my library. I coordinate our information literacy program so instruction is always a big part of my job, but it looms even larger for me at this time of year. If I’m not teaching a class, I’m probably thinking [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 14th, 2009 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Student Issues, Teaching.
Comments: 6
Teaching Students, Teaching Faculty
Over the past few semesters we’ve ramped up the number of faculty workshops we offer at the library where I work. We’re a small library in a fairly large college, and it can be tricky to balance our faculty initiatives with student instruction. Faculty sessions usually take longer to prepare, and since we only offer [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on October 16th, 2009 under Faculty, Information Literacy, Teaching.
Comments: 6