May, 2004
Vol. 2 No. 1
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Information Literacy Programs for Academic Librarians
The following programs may be of interest to library staff from our academic community. The first is a series of two seminars sponsored by the NY3Rs Association, Inc.. The second is a program sponsored and hosted by Rockland Community College.
1) Information
Literacy and Middle States Accreditation: How do We Measure Up?
This program will be held in Geneva, NY on Monday, June 14 from 9:30 am to 3:30
PM and repeated on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at the METRO Offices in NYC.
Purpose: Starting with the first Cohort’s Middle States self-study in 2003, academic institutions and their libraries are required to address the assessment expectations for student information literacy. This seminar will enable representatives of institutions, particularly Cohorts 1-4, but any others as well, to explore strategies for demonstrating that students are information literate at graduation. Those who already have conducted their self-study under the new information literacy elements and those preparing to do doing the next few years will share their ideas and tips.
Included
in the program will be a panel discussion examining these topics:
o What tips would be helpful in conducting your self-study?
o How much is information literacy integrated institution-wide into the curriculum.
o How do you increase the breadth of this integration?
o What is the extent of collaboration between faculty, library staff, and administration
for information literacy? How can this be further encouraged?
For further information go to the NY3Rs website http://www.ny3rs.org/
and click on “Information Literacy Seminars” in the left column.
(As of this writing we are waiting for more information to be posted on the
NY3Rs website about the METRO program.)
2) Panel Discussion of Information Literacy Education
On June 14 from 1-3 PM Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY will host a Panel
Discussion on Information Literacy Education. It will be facilitated by Xi Shi,
Library Director.
The afternoon will consist of a brief presentation on the trend in higher education
toward developing and implementing Information Literacy Education, followed
by discussions of Library Instruction, Bibliographic Instruction, Class Related
& Subject Oriented Library Instruction, Information Literacy, its Definition
& Standards, and Course Integrated Information Literacy Instruction.
For additional information, contact Xi Shi xshi@sunyrockland.edu
or Sarah Levy at slevy@sunyrockland.edu.
Other articles
on Information Literacy
There are four new full-text articles dealing with information literacy
available at the Academic Exchange Quarterly website. These are:
By John Shaloiko, Executive Director
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