Posts Tagged ‘college librarians’
October 17 - For Better Research Assignments, Ask a Librarian
By: Beth Schuck in Instructional Design
A recent survey of faculty handouts for research assignments found that most of the handouts provided details for length, citation guide style and how to get assistance from the faculty member. What wasn’t included was a critical need for most undergraduate students: context for the research topic.
September 24 - When Librarians, Faculty and Instructional Designers Team Up, Students Win
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
Time was, integrating the library into your course meant sending your class to the physical library building for research, perhaps giving the librarians a heads-up so they could be prepared to introduce the card catalog and microfiche collection. Librarians acted solely as curators of the archives, collecting and cataloging resources and controlling access by users.
May 5 - Partnering with Your Librarian to Promote Information Literacy
By: Marilyn Steinberg and Kari Mofford in Effective Teaching Strategies
Librarians as partners is a relationship that may not have occurred to you, but as librarians we think it’s one you ought to explore. Librarians are qualified to help you with pedagogical issues that go way beyond how to find a book or search a database.
February 23 - Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
When you assign your students to write a paper, do they know where to start? Upperclassmen surely do, but what about freshmen? Left to their own devices, they’ll likely turn to Google and Wikipedia as their main research tools, and may never even set foot in the library if they can help it.
