Standing Alone No More: Linking Research to a Writing Course in a Learning Community

Abstract

Collaborating with teaching faculty is a well-established method of making library instruction more meaningful and engaging to students, and learning communities provide an excellent opportunity to work closely with both teaching faculty and a cohort of students. A typical learning community brings students together around a similar discipline or theme. The students take some of the same courses and may live together on campus. At Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the authors of this article, one a librarian and the other a writing instructor, worked together in a learning community to support students as they mastered research skills across two courses, an information literacy course and a first-year writing course. The results of this collaboration show improved achievement in student learning outcomes and increased retention of valuable research skills in writing.

Portrait of Digital Library Islamic Collection: Study of PTKIN Digital Library Management System in North Sumatera

“…Human resource management involves all management decisions and practices that directly affect the human resources of the people who work for the organization. This is in line with human resource management according to Umar is a planning, organizing, directing and supervising the development, procurement, compensation, integration, maintenance, and termination of employment to achieve organizational goals in an integrated manner (Rapchak, 2015). Human resource management activities are different in each organization (Farhanah, 2014).…”

“…The Digital Library System at UIN Sumatera Uttara Medan, IAIN Padangsidimpuan and STAIN Mandailing Natal serves all information related to scientific work, which will be managed by the administrator. In this case, scientific work information will be retrieved from the internal repository so that users are limited to only accessing information on scientific work by the academic community based on categories or keywords (Rapchak, 2015).…”

“…In general, in an organization there is data processing that supports management information systems including: the highest leadership is responsible for all data processing functions assisted by three managers as assistants to the highest leadership including the operations manager who oversees the operation of computer equipment (Sunyianto, 2019), system processing, computer observation, and scheduling usage (Rhodin, 2018), computer, then the input-contribution control manager in charge of input research, processing control, analysis and output control and error correction control, (Bent, M, 2011) as well as the system development manager who is responsible for the implementation activities for creating new programs, correcting programs currently in use if necessary, and system documentation (Rapchak, 2015).…”

Academic libraries and student learning outcomes

“…Foremost, authors highlighted outcomes assessments that centered on students’ demonstration of their information learning skills in authentic situations (Cmor et al , 2010; Whitlock and Nanavati, 2013). In this instance, assessments focused on students’ creation of research papers, class projects, bibliographies, search logs, oral presentations, and other assignments (Burd, 2003; Cooney and Hiris, 2003; Hutchins, 2003; Judd et al , 2004; Kinsley et al , 2014; Lacy and Chen, 2013; Macklin, 2007; Pan et al , 2014; Rapchak and Cipri, 2015; Schroeder, 2003; Victor et al , 2013).…”

Transforming Information Literacy Through Librarian/Course Instructor Collaboration: A Case Study

“…Collaboration between librarians and faculty who were teaching separate courses in a learning community was studied by Rapchak and Cipri (2015), a librarian and writing instructor at Duquesne University. Four learning goals were identified which both the IL class and the freshman writing class emphasized: "[1] Students will find scholarly resources independently.…”