Ignatian Information Literacy: Applying the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm to Library Instruction

Instruction librarians in higher education specialize in information literacy, which is the set of skills needed to interact effectively with information. The guiding document for library instruction, the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy, calls for imparting the foundational wisdom and self-awareness which underlie these skills. Unfortunately, most library instruction is delivered in 50- or 75-minute “one-shots” focusing on the technical skills of searching library resources, which makes deeper information literacy instruction a challenge. One way to meet this challenge is to utilize the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), which shares with the ACRL Framework the aim of not merely imparting facts but holistically transforming the student. This article details the use of the IPP’s repeating cycle of five elements (context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation) to guide the creation of a flipped library instruction module which provides more foundational information literacy instruction than is typically possible in a “one shot” library session

Have a CCOW: A CRAAP alternative for the internet age

The CRAAP Test is a popular tool for teaching students to evaluate information. Its simplicity and ease of understanding make it suitable for teaching in the limited time of a typical one-shot library instruction session. However, it has recently come under criticism for being unequal to the internet age. Critics hold that students treat the CRAAP criteria as a checklist, rarely leaving the source under evaluation to gather more information to aid their assessment, an activity crucial for internet factchecking. This paper details a new set of evaluation criteria that seeks to retain the convenient conceptual packaging of CRAAP while encouraging an investigative mindset. Students are asked to actively investigate the Credentials, Claims, and Objectives behind the information they are evaluating. A fourth criterion, Worldview, prompts metacognition and builds the self-awareness critical to making good judgements about information. This paper explores the CCOW criteria and details a flipped, online guide and exercise which has been successfully used to teach information literacy (IL) to college students in their first year of study using CCOW

An Architecture for Word Learning using Bidirectional Multimodal Structural Alignment

Learning of new words is assisted by contextual information. This context can come in several forms, including observations in nonlinguistic semantic domains, as well as the linguistic context in which the new word was presented

Public Transportation and the Carless in Small Cities and Rural Areas: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography is prepared for those who are interested in the problem, concerned citizens and planners in small cities and rural areas, and policy analysts in various levels of government. Public transportation planning in nonmetropolitan areas has been disjointed. There are few well developed goals, objectives, and policies. Standards and values are varied among different communities. Consequently, decisions on public transportation services can best be made locally with active citizen participation. This bibliography, together with a review paper (ITS Report D-SR-77-2), provides adequate information for gaining insights into the various facets of the problem. Additional information and assistance can be obtained from the library of the Institute of Transportation Studies (Berkeley and Irvine), the Division of Mass Transportation - California Department of Transportation, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration - U.S. Department of Transportation, and other agencies or institutes. The bibliography is divided into three sections. The first section is a list of references arranged alphabetically by author. Each article is classified by a system of coded keywords. The keyword codes are shown in parentheses after each reference. The second section contains the abstracts of the articles. The third section is an index of articles by subject. The cross-reference is shown by the article number

Proof of Principle that Molecular Modeling Followed by a Biophysical Experiment Can Develop Small Molecules that Restore Function to the Cardiac Thin Filament in the Presence of Cardiomyopathic Mutations

This article reports a coupled computational experimental approach to design small molecules aimed at targeting genetic cardiomyopathies. We begin with a fully atomistic model of the cardiac thin filament. To this we dock molecules using accepted computational drug binding methodologies. The candidates are screened for their ability to repair alterations in biophysical properties caused by mutation. Hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies caused by mutation are initially biophysical in nature, and the approach we take is to correct the biophysical insult prior to irreversible cardiac damage. Candidate molecules are then tested experimentally for both binding and biophysical properties. This is a proof of concept study-eventually candidate molecules will be tested in transgenic animal models of genetic sarcomeric cardiomyopathies.NIH [HL136375]Open access journalThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]

Distinct patterns in alpine vegetation around dens of the Arctic fox

The arctic fox Alopex lugopus excavates its dens in gravely ridges and hillocks, and creates a local environment quite distinct from the surrounding tundra or heath landscape. In northern Sweden, the vegetation of 18 dens of the arctic fox was investigated, as well as reference areas off the dens but in geologically and topographically similar locations. The species composition showed considerable differences between den and reference areas, with grasses and forbs occurring more abundantly on the dens, and evergreen dwarf-shrubs occurring more in reference areas. The effect of the foxes' activities is thought to be either through mechanical soil disturbance, or through nutrient enrichment via scats, urine, and carcasses. This was expected to result in differences in plant traits with key functional roles in resource acquisition and regeneration, when comparing dens with reference areas. We hypothesised that the community mean of specific leaf area (SLA) would differ if nutrient enrichment was the more important effect, and that seed weight, inversely proportional to seed number per ramet and hence dispersal ability, would differ if soil disturbance was the more important effect. Specific leaf area showed a significant difference, indicating nutrient enrichment to be the most important effect of the arctic fox on the vegetation on its dens. Arctic foxes act as ecosystems engineers on a small scale, maintaining niches for relatively short-lived nutrient demanding species on their dens in spite of the dominance of long-lived ericaceous dwarf-shrubs in the landscape matrix. Thus, foxes contribute to the maintenance of species richness on the landscape level