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)- Related article: Developing Students' Information and Research Skills via Blackboard.
- 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:
- Burhanna, Kenneth J. "Instructional Outreach to High Schools: Should You Be Doing It?" Communications in Information Literacy (Fall 2007).
- I also recently listened to the "Thinking Out Loud" podcast by George Needham (OCLC) and Joan Frye Williams, which reported on the University College of London CIBER group's report from January 2008 entitled, "Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future." While I haven't read the report, the podcast, referring to the report, mentions the importance of establishing good research habits early in students' lives, and suggests that by the time they get to college most students are set in their Google-ing ways. (This seemed to support the idea for a greater collaboration between college and high school and even elementary schools with regard to information literacy skills.)
- NJLA/Computers in Libraries -- information sharing
- YOUR DISCUSSION TOPICS HERE! :)
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