The Unconference: Community College Library Issues: Shared Resources

Shared Resources 2014

TOPIC DISCUSSIONS:

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (thanks, Ken Lin)

• • • Bealle's list: of open access journals and publishers with predatory or questionable practices, related to SCHOLARSHIP IS CONVERSATION
    • Retraction Watch , related to SCHOLARSHIP IS CONVERSATION

A recent blog post by Troy Swanson, of Moraine Valley CC offer some thoughts on how this Framework connects to undergrads with a special nod toward my community college colleagues."

Assessing Value
Discovery Tools (thanks, Ken Lin)

• • • MIT search search box has "what am I searching?" drop down link to more about BartonPlus which leads to the guide of when to use the BartonPlus discovery service, currently EBSCO EDS. Although they are still using SFX from ExLibris as their link resolver. About Barton Plus

    • Sam Houston State University - Engine Orange Describes the scope and has how to videos

    • Xavier University - teaching with WorldCat Local and documentation of their testing and comparison of various discovery layers

    • Links to some articles and comparisons of discovery tools

Keeping Students Actively Learning Online and F2F

• • • Uyeki Notes on Discussion on Active Learning
    • Active Learning wiki from Danielle Kaprelian

       

    • Benjes-Small, Candice, et al. "Teaching Web Evaluation: a Cognitive Development Approach." Communications in Information Literacy. 7.1 (2013). Web. 4 May 2014.
    • NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt
    • The LibRat Program: Peer Reference and Basic IL Instruction
    • ‘Guide on the Side’ Active Learning Tutorials in Information Literacy Instruction
    • Open Badges from Mozilla

Instruction Assessment: Online and F2F

• • • Research Log (thanks, Debbie Renfrow)

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Sally Romero: Outreach to Child Development Center

Uyeki Unconference Notes: Presentations 10:30-11:30am
Uyeki Unconference Notes: Presentations 1:30-2:15

Shared Resources 2012

During the May 5th 2012 Unconference, colleagues shared resources, ideas, tips.

TOPIC DISCUSSIONS:

Marketing the Library

• • • , Elizabeth Horan's

Marketing Plan

• • • from Saddleback College

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

• • • SpringShare's SpringCamp session by Alvin Dantes "LibGuides and the Library Website" about using LibGuides free API Utility

       

      SpringShare info on API

    • Librarian/faculty collaboration to promote and integrate information comp into curriculum: Our Research Across the Curriculum Committee has sponsored a “Faculty Colloquium on Information Competency”; Getty

Related articles:

• • • Mahaffy, Mardi. "Encouraging Critical Thinking In Student Library Research." College Teaching 54.4 (2006): 324-327.

    • Roselle, Ann. "Preparing the Underprepared: Current Academic Library Practices in Developmental Education." College and Research Libraries 70.2 (2009).

    • Learning Communities: Library Instruction in an Advanced ESL Course;
      Morton
    • Library Skills for Developmental English Students; Bierdzinski
    • Here is the link to the article I mentioned during my presentation: http://crl.acrl.org/content/70/2/142.full.pdf+html.
  • From Sarah Bosler: NCSU's Mobile Scavenger Hunt (I'm piloting this in the summer to use with ESL 101 and ENGL 99)
• Free web tools for libraries; from Ailya Rose

Other Resources:

When To Work Employee Scheduling Sarah Bosler says: "about $200/year for this. We use it to schedule all our library staff. We have about 30 including adjuncts and students."

From Stephen Navigating the Health Information Maze "Navigating the Health Information Maze is provided by the NN/LM PSR, an outreach program of the National Library of Medicine, located at UCLA. Our mission is to enhance access to health information for health professionals and the public."