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Assessing Outcomes with Nursing Research Assignments and Citation Analysis of Student Bibliographies
(Reference Librarian, 2003)What are the library and information research requirements in a typical undergraduate nursing program? Do distance-learning library services provide undergraduate nursing students with the research materials they require ... -
Developing Scientific Womanpower: Gender and the Cold War-Era Science Fair
(2014-05-24)This paper examines the intersection of gender and science in the U.S. during the Cold War by looking at girls' participation in science fairs. Official rhetoric encouraged both boys and girls to develop their skills in ... -
Digital Commons as a Tool for Outreach
(2013)This presentation describes SUNY Plattsburgh’s use of Digital Commons to increase outreach to faculty and students. I explain the origins of this approach, discuss how librarians work with faculty to co-administer series, ... -
Digital Publishing at Feinberg Library: The Institutional Repository as Outreach Initiative
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Exercise: Popular vs. Scholarly Sources
(2017)This is a guided discovery activity to help students learn about the differences between scholarly and popular publications. Students are asked to look at an example of each type of resource and make observations. This ... -
The Foundations of Naval Science: Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power on History and the Library of Congress Classification System
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)This article is a history of the creation of the Naval Science class within the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS) during that system’s fashioning and development at the turn of the 20th century. Previous ... -
The "French Traveller," Patrick Henry, and the Contagion of Liberty
(2011-03-26)In 1921 the American Historical Review published the journal of a "French traveller" describing his trip to Britain's North American colonies in 1765. From the West Indies, the traveler sailed north to the North Carolina ... -
Locating Information Literacy within Institutional Oppression
(In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2013-09-24)The ACRL's draft Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education represents a chance to undo the neoliberal assumptions of earlier information literacy standards. Despite some positive changes, the language of the ... -
My Reflections on Charleston
(2013)My reflections from Charleston: It was my first time attending, and there was so much going on and so many workshops offered that I wasn't prepared to figure out what the best course of action should be. I followed the ... -
Preservation in Practice: A Survey of New York City Digital Humanities
(In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2017-05-17)Digital Humanities (DH) describes the emerging practice of interpreting humanities content through computing methods to enhance data gathering, analysis, and visualization. Due to factors including scale, complexity, and ... -
Reading Freire for First World Librarians
(2015-06-02)Librarians in the nascent critical information literacy movement have embraced the dialogical, problem-posing educational model that Paulo Freire described in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. But less well known are Freire's ... -
Reconsidering Reference for a Generation Without Boundaries
(The Psychology of Librarianship, 2015)Much attention has been focused in the media recently upon the "dangers" that mentally ill college students pose to their communities. Indeed, there have been several well-publicized, albeit sensationalized, accounts of ... -
Reinforcing Information and Technology Literature: The Plattsburg Tip Sheet
(College & Research Libraries News, 2004-06)This article describes a Plattsburgh State University Library and Information Services (LIS) faculty workshop on information and technology literacy. The workshop was developed in response to a call for the redraft ing ... -
Social Justify Your Lesson Plan: How to Use Social Media to Make Pop Culture Scholarly
(Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, 2016)In this chapter, we describe a lesson plan rooted in feminist pedagogy -- a teaching/learning that actively engages with the material being studied by embracing social media as a viable platform for scholarship. This lesson ... -
Social Media as Game Strategy: Twitter in the #infolit Instruction Session
(2015-06-04)The lure of distractions can entice even the strongest of student wills in a computer classroom. Research requires strategic thinking and ordered planning to drown out the noise of online distractions. This poster demonstrates ... -
Those Immersed Resurface: A Follow Up with Track 2 Participants of the First Information Literacy Immersion
(College and Research Libraries News, 2003-01)So what happens to all those great ideas and all that motivation that we get when we attend conferences and professional development opportunities? In the case of the first Track 2 participants of ACRL's Institute for ... -
Zotero: A Tool for Constructionist Learning in Critical Information Literacy
(Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, 2016)The chapter describes a method for teaching Zotero, a bibliographic management program, to undergraduates over the course of a one-shot library instruction session. The session is intended to help students take control of ...
