Faculty‐librarian cooperation: a personal retrospective

Managing a library instruction program at a small liberal‐arts college has many challenges. Programs at such institutions often have limited financial resources and are maintained under difficult staffing conditions. This study examines the effectiveness of an instruction program offered at a four‐year liberal‐arts college with fewer than 3,000 students. The research was designed to assess the effectiveness of the current program and measure it against a pilot group of students exposed to enhanced information literacy opportunities based on the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Working with five faculty members, information literacy goals were clearly articulated and implemented into nine sections of first‐year writing and speaking courses. Bibliographic analysis, an information literacy questionnaire, and an in‐class writing exercise were used to determine whether students in the pilot groups performed better than students receiving the program’s customary library training.

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 95%

Information literacy program assessment: one small college takes the big plunge

Flaspohler

2003

“…It is our hope that we can one day realize in many disciplines what Evan Farber (1999) described as the ideal cooperative relationship,`w here both the teacher's objectives and librarian's objectives are not only achieved, but are mutually reinforcing ± the teacher's objectives being those that help students attain a better understanding of the course's subject matter, and the librarian's objectives being those that enhance the students' ability to find and evaluate information. ''…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Faculty‐librarian collaboration for nursing information literacy: a tiered approach

Dorner

Taylor

Hodson‐Carlton³

2001

In an effort to systematically ensure that nursing students have the information literacy skills they need to succeed as healthcare professionals, instruction librarians and faculty members at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, are collaborating in designing a tiered approach to building student research skills, year by year. A series of information literacy competencies for the nursing field was agreed upon, and required courses throughout the undergraduate and graduate programs were targeted as appropriate points for instruction in these competencies. A description of the faculty‐librarian collaborative process which integrated this instruction into Nursing 605 is described, along with information about the Web‐based introductory graduate course.

“…Several recent trends have helped to make possible more innovative approaches to collaboration (Farber, 1999). Among the most important are the rapid pace of technological change, especially the Internet, a focus on information literacy, and the growing popularity of the liaison model of librarianship.…”

Section: Collaborative Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating a Web research guide: collaboration between liaisons, faculty and students

Sugarman

Demetracopoulos

2001

This article discusses the efforts of two liaison librarians at William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, to build a long‐term, sustainable partnership among teaching faculty, graduate students, and librarians in the development and maintenance of a Web‐based research guide for world history. The projects’ goals are: to provide access to the resources available at Pullen Library; to serve as a gateway to resources available on the Internet; and to showcase student contributions, including bibliographies and annotations of Web sites. The project is an organic endeavor, with the Web site’s organization open to periodic review and modification. Continuous discussions and mutual criticisms have marked the progress of the project. The authors see the success of this venture as a way to collaborate with more faculty, and increase the level of student participation on an ongoing basis.