The Course Guide: Creating a Culinary Masterpiece “to go”

Librarians operate in a multimodal environment, where Web 2.0 applications allow us to easily create multimedia materials for students, yet course guides frequently follow the print pathfinder model of merely listing resources. In this interactive workshop, attendees will ”cook up a recipe” to transform online course guides into dynamic 24/7 learning tools. Following discussion on best practices for visual design, review of course resource materials, and assignment analysis, we will apply design and pedagogical principles to create a framework, using the LibGuides model, for a dynamic course-specific guide that enhances learning as it supports the goals of a specific assignment

Motivating Faculty to Integrate the Library: We Can Work Together!

Faculty may be unaware of how many library resources are available to support their course assignments. Additionally their assignments may not be designed in a way that makes the best use of library resources. “Shopping list” assignments may cause students to spend too much time searching and not enough time engaging with the material and developing higher order thinking skills. Two Wayne State Librarians share their experiences in developing a workshop for faculty to help them integrate the library in a meaningful way, to support student learning and development of information literacy skills. Using persistent linking to embed articles, book chapters, database search results, and library instructional videos in assignment descriptions, faculty can learn to include library content in a way that will encourage students’ use and analysis of appropriate scholarly information. Though the short term goals of the faculty workshop are to integrate the library, the long term goal and potential outcome is to collaborate with faculty as pedagogical partners. Participants in this program will engage in a series of interactive tasks that will enable them to construct a plan for a similar workshop tailored to their faculty. Participants will identify a venue and partner for a similar workshop in their own institution, strategies to motivate their faculty to attend, and appropriate faculty-focused workshop content

Re-thinking Information Literacy Instruction with the ACRL Framework

As academic librarians transition from a teaching and learning paradigm for Information Literacy (IL) that is reliant on the ACRL Competency Standards to the new ACRL Framework, how can librarians support and learn from each other as a community during this transition? This program will share the examples of reframing successful, standards-based IL instruction for two discipline-focused research assignments to a framework-based approach. Attendees will participate in a hands-on activity that helps them strategize how to re-think existing instruction to integrate the threshold concepts into instruction, and discuss options for assessing student learning as part of a new instruction paradigm

The Course Guide: Creating a Culinary Masterpiece “To Go”

Librarians operate in a multimodal environment, where Web 2.0 applications allow us to easily create multimedia materials for students, yet course guides frequently follow the print pathfinder model of merely listing resources. In this interactive workshop, attendees will cook up a recipe to transform online course guides into dynamic 24/7 learning tools. Following discussion on best practices for visual design, review of course resource materials, and assignment analysis, we will apply design and pedagogical principles to create a framework, using the LibGuides model, for a dynamic course-specific guide that enhances learning as it supports the goals of a specific assignment

Creating Instruction To Go : Maximizing Resources, Maximizing Impact

Faced with large scale instruction demands, librarians are turning to technology to maximize staff resources and extend the impact of instruction. In this presentation, participants will learn how to translate classroom instructional content into learning objects in order to make learning available to multiple users on the go. The authors will engage the audience in a series of presentations, demonstrations, interactive tasks, and discussion in order to learn how to create effective learning objects. This presentation was delivered at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 14th National Conference on March 14, 2009 in Seattle, WA

Crossroads for Success: University Mission, Community Partnerships and Information Literacy

Urban-based higher educational institutions often embrace an outreach mission that not only “gives back” to the community supporting the university but also fosters a relationship that may lead to recruiting local talent. This presentation examines what happens when that community engagement mission intersects with the library, and traditional and non-traditional partnerships are formed, offering information literacy a role in the goal of helping high school and middle school students prepare to succeed in college

Engaging Faculty in Information Literacy

How can librarians engage faculty in information literacy? This session demonstrates how a faculty workshop can be used as a strategy to motivate change in how faculty design research assignments. We will discuss using current research to draw faculty into the information literacy conversation, perform assignment analysis to illuminate the “burdens” placed on the student, and illustrate how assignment re-design can mitigate the subsequent student struggles that may lead to patchwork papers or plagiarism