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LOEX 2006 Presentations
Moving Targets: Understanding Our Changing Landscapes
Changing Needs of Our Users | Working with New Technologies & Environments | Making Assessment Useful | Coping with Ethical Issues | Keeping Up with Change
Changing Needs of Our Users: Research & its Impact on Information Literacy
Full DescriptionsDancing with Problem-Based Learning: The Perfect Partner
Presenter: Celita DeArmond
Effective Methods for Incorporating Problem-Based Learning into Library Instruction
Presenters: Barbara Kenney, Susan McMullen
Finding Your Inner Gamer: Adapting Instruction for Digital Natives
Presenters: Robin Ewing, Justine Martin
Hitting a Moving Target: Curriculum Mapping, Information Literacy & Academe
Presenters: Kristen A. Bullard, Diana H. Holden
Is Google God? How do students look for information today?
Presenters: Gerri Foudy, Travis Johnson
Letting Go & Starting Over: Transforming an Information Literacy Tutorial
Presenters: Steven Frye, Nikki Busch, Abbie Loomis
Lost in Translation? International Students & Non-English Information Literacy
Presenter: Ethan Pullman
Our Transition Mission: Reaching Out to the High School Community
Presenters: Ken Burhanna, Mary Lee Jensen, Barbara Schloman
What Does First-Person Shooter Have to Do With Library Instruction?
Presenters: Ann Brown, Paola Ceccarini, Cathy Eisenhower
Zeroing in on Moving Targets: Strategies for Reaching Transient Teachers
Presenters: Susan Avery, Emily Rogers
Working with New Technologies & Environments
The Begetting of Information Literacy Tutorials: Third-Wave Tutorials for the iPod Generation
Presenters: Susan Metcalf, Meg Atwater-Singer
Connecting with AIM: The Search for a Virtual Reference Niche
Presenters: Lucretia McCulley, Olivia Reinauer
Convening an Emerging Technologies Working Group in an Academic Library
Presenters: Debra Riley-Huff, Erin Ellis, Tami Albin
Grains of Learning: Learning Objects & Library Instruction
Presenter: Deborah Diller
H-ITT Me With Your Best Stuff: Implementing Classroom Response Systems
Presenter: Debbi Renfrow
How They Learn/How You Teach: Building Library Instruction Sessiosn for Multiple Learners
Presenters: Jeff Newman, Pia Russell
Impacts of Mobile Computing and Communication on Library Instruction
Presenters: Sarah Bosarge, Karen Estlund
Let the Games Begin! Changing Our Instruction to Reach Millennials
Presenters: Bee Gallegos, Tammy Allgood, Melissa Duarte
Who Put That Column in the Middle of the Room? Designing Functional, Flexible, & Forgiving Spaces for Library Instruction
Presenter: Paul Glassman
Making Assessment Useful
Assessing the Foundation
Presenters: Gayla Byerly, Annie Downey
Assessment: Builds Strong Programs Eight Ways! It's Good for You!
Presenter: Tom Bickley, Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Steve Philibosian
Creating Avenues: Partnerships in a Changing Library Environment
Presenters: Kate Jenkins, Judy Gaydos, Judy Pula
Online Knowledge Surveys as a Means of Library Instruction Assessment
Steven Baumgart, Elizabeth Hassemer
Coping with Ethical Issues
Exploring the Librarian's Role in Promoting Academic Integrity on Campus
Presenters: Candice Benjes-Small, Eric Ackermann, Kevin Tapp
A Tutorial With a Twist: How Plagiarism Advances Library Instruction
Presenters: Sandra Hussey, Mark Jacobs
Using Scenarios to Teach Undergraduates About Copyright, Fair Use, & Plagiarism
Presenters: Susan Ariew, Heather Runyan
Keeping Up with Change
(Alphabetically by title)
Creativity & Personalization: Freshman Orientation for the Millennial Generation
Presenters: Ann Wheeler, Pam Harris
The millennial generation presents new challenges for today’s librarians. Born between 1980 and 2000, this is the largest generation in U.S. history and will be entering colleges in record numbers over the next ten years. Library literature identifies the Millennials as a specific user group with distinguishing characteristics; they are self-assured, optimistic, well-educated, collaborative, and open-minded. They rely on friendships, and can share their opinions instantaneously with a vast social network via new technologies. Millennials expect customization in their learning environments and have high expectations for today’s academic libraries.
Freshman orientation is the first impression of the academic library for most of these students. It is often viewed by staff as a "make it or break it" moment, especially in schools where there is no formal information literacy program. In 2005, Swarthmore College developed a winning freshman orientation program-- the most successful orientation to date--that meets the learning preferences of this generation by incorporating technology, structure and leadership by library staff, fun, silliness, experiential activities, exposure to positive people, personal interactions, and rewards.
The presenters will discuss their process of goal-setting, program development, and assessment for freshman orientation. They will also present their research on freshman orientations in the 76 Oberlin Group colleges, and discuss the often ambiguous relationship between freshman library orientation and information literacy programs. Attendees will learn best practices for developing dynamic freshman orientation programs that provide Millenials with a positive first impression of the academic library.
Myspace & Facebook: Reaching Our Students with Their Technology of Choice
Presenters: Yvonne Meulemans, Melanie Chu
How college students use the incredibly popular Myspace and Facebook directly relates to two conference themes: "Keeping up with Change" and "Working with New Technologies and Environments." Myspace and Facebook are fairly new web portals and services that have been embraced by Millennials and Generation Y. How can libraries and librarians utilize these technologies? This talk will begin with a brief introduction to features of these technologies, such as easy creation of personalized web sites, photo sharing, messaging capabilities, search functions, and most importantly, customizable campus-specific links. Differences and similarities among these technologies will be discussed as a way of understanding the reasons for the technology’s rapid and wide adoption. Data on the usage and application amongst college students on campus at California State University at San Marcos, as well as high school and college students nationwide, will be provided. Particular focus will be on the many ways these technologies can be used to supplement an information literacy program, to facilitate outreach to a variety of campus populations, and to assess information literacy instruction. Librarians familiar with these technologies will find that they can be a powerful, effective way of reaching students at their point of need while minimizing barriers for students getting research assistance and access to library resources. Learning outcomes for this presentation will include: basic knowledge of the features of Myspace and Facebook, understanding of how college students use these technologies and ideas for practical integration into information literacy curriculum and outreach settings.
Research on the Road
Presenters: Consuela Cline, Russell Palmer
Information literacy instruction must expand to embrace the needs and behaviors of students. At the Tarver Library, Mercer University, librarians are seeking partnerships that will foster innovative programs as they work to connect with students and their information needs, on their terms. Offering students the opportunity to get research help in their living space fits in well with the way they work today. With limitless access to information in a wireless world, students face difficulties in processing and evaluating information. It is easier with a librarian there to help...especially if one need not shower or leave the comforts of home and can resume a game of Halo on the XBOX right after the librarian leaves. This presentation, followed by a discussion, will illustrate how librarians partnered with residence life staff to create the Research on the Road program, and offered one-on-one, needs-based information literacy instruction in campus residence halls.
The presentation will focus on developing a partnership with residence life staff, developing Research on the Road, interacting with students, assessing the program, and identifying challenges. Attendees will learn about conducting and marketing a successful information literacy program at a small university, developing partnerships with other academic units, and overcoming the challenge of students’ indifference to and fear of librarians and research with effective outreach efforts.
Staying au courant: Resources for Instruction Librarians
Presenter: Jana Varlejs
Most instruction librarians have favorite journals, professional associations, and electronic discussion lists that they rely on to stay current. The presenter will take a straw poll of the audience to see if there is a consensus, and discuss these choices in relation to competencies that an ideal instruction librarian might be expected to possess. The session will conclude with a review of a handout that will provide a wide-ranging list of the sources that an instruction librarian can draw on for professional development. The list will include not only sources specific to librarianship and learning, but also suggestions for keeping up with the changing environment in higher education, as it affects library instruction, and with the evolving nature of the student body. At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify a broad range of resources that they can use for their own continuing professional development as well as for training and mentoring new instruction librarians and will be able to describe the knowledge base that instruction librarians ideally should have.
