Thursday, May 15, 2008

Next Meeting: May 23 at Georgian Court University

The next CJARL meeting will be held at Georgian Court University on Friday, May 23 between 10:00 am and 12:00 noon. Directions, parking information, and meeting location to follow.

Here are a few ideas for discussion. We certainly don't have to address all of them -- (or any of them, for that matter!) Please send your ideas (or weigh-in on those presented here) before the meeting and I'll put together a loose agenda.
  • Explore Georgian Court's Information Literacy shell in their course management system
    (discussed at the March meeting)
  • General Education/Lampitt Bill and the troublesome "Technological Competency or Information Literacy" category:
    • The ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS User Education Committee is working on submitting a proposal that this be looked at in the Fall. If possible, I'd like to get some ideas and feedback from members of this group to share. (I'll bring copies of relevant documents for those who aren't familiar with the Lampitt Bill.)
  • What Happens to Your Research Assignment at the Library?
    • This article appeared in Vol. 56/Issue 1 of College Teaching (Winter 2008), (full-text available through Academic Search Premier). It addresses the work that librarians do with students at the reference desk-- primarily in the area of topic selection/narrowing -- when assignments assume students have these skills, and it suggests techniques discipline-area faculty might use to build topic focus strategies into research assignments. Might be interesting to hear what experiences members have with this issue and what approaches work best -- with students and faculty.
  • Federated searching: your thoughts and experiences...
  • Does anyone have partnerships/working relationships with local high school libraries/academic departments? Should we? A few interesting pieces on this issue:
  • NJLA/Computers in Libraries -- information sharing
  • YOUR DISCUSSION TOPICS HERE! :)

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