Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group : Past Events

Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group
Past Events

		"Instruction (In) Flux: Librarians as Agents of Change" sponsored by the Atlanta University Center, Emory University, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia
2007 meeting, Athens, GA at the University of Georgia's Student Learning Center -- May 25, 2007 Presentation Abstract: Today, academic libraries are embracing the Learning Commons Model as a way to entice students to spend more time in the physical library. Beyond the basics of state-of-the-art technologies and the addition of social spaces, Learning Commons also have an effect on many traditional library services, including reference service and instruction. This interactive presentation will cover ways in which some libraries are leveraging new and like new spaces to fulfill their traditional teaching mission and what some are doing to go beyond tradition into innovation. Meeting minutes Leslie Madden and Trena Davis, Pullen Library Georgia State Spring into Action: Transforming Your Career, Discussion Lisa Smith and Mildred Pate, Georgia Southern University, Extreme Makeover: How Collaboration and Hard Work Improved English 1102 Students’ Multi-genre Projects _______________________________________ Collaborate to Innovate! Information Literacy Partnerships Across the Community 2006 Annual Meeting at Emory University in Atlanta, GA -- July 28, 2006 Sponsored by Emory Libraries, GALILEO, UGA Libraries, and the University of West Georgia's Ingram Library Peter Shipman, Medical College of Georgia "GALILEO as Consumer Health Collaboration Point" Kathryn Ames & Miguel Vicente, Athens-Clarke County Library "The Pinewoods Biblioteca: Successful Partnerships in Action" Michael Aldrich, University of West Georgia “Government Documents: Collaborative Efforts to Enrich the Community’s Knowledge Base” Nadine Cohen, University of Georgia; Mindy Doler, North Oconee High School; Lorene Flanders, University of West Georgia; and Jeremy Worsham, Berry College "Scenic Routes to K-16 Information Literacy in Georgia"

Through the Looking Glass: Different Views on Library Instruction 2005 Annual Meeting at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton -- July 27, 2005 Barbara Moore, Chattahoochee Technical College "On the Blunt Edge: Meeting BI Challenges in a Small College" Over the last 6 years, Chattahoochee Technical College has dealt with perceptual, financial, administrative, environmental, and technical issues in an effort to present useful BI. Ms. Moore will discuss the specific challenges and solutions they’ve created. Nadine Cohen, University of Georgia "The Time is Right for K-16 Information Literacy Collaboration: The CLOC Experience" CLOC (Community Librarians Outreach and Collaboration) is a newly formed group of K-16 and public librarians in the greater Athens area, working together to create a local K-16 information literacy program. Learn about what we’ve done in our first six months of existence and our plans and goals for the future. Lisa Ennis, University of Alabama at Birmingham "Making Learning Infectious: Teaching Medical Resources" Moving from a small liberal arts library in a small town to a large academic health sciences library in an urban area is quite an eye opener. Learn the basics of using the National Library of Medicine's Gateway as well as what pitfalls to be wary of when teaching groups to use medical resources. Jonathan Darby, University of Alabama "Putting the U in B.I.s" No matter how skilled the instructor, the students will not remember every button that you push or every database you go into. You can make sure that they will remember the role of the librarian, however, and that can be just as important.

Covering Your Assessment: From Individuals to Institutions 2004 Annual Meeting at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville -- July 26th, 2004 Carolyn Radcliff, Kent State University Radcliff provided a look at information literacy assessment at an institutional level. In addition to discussing the “hows” and “whys” of assessment, Ms. Radcliff provided an overview of the unique and important scholarly Project SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills). Participants in the SAILS project, a multiuniversity initiative, are working to develop a standardized tool for assessing information literacy programs that could be used by any institution. Click here to see Carolyn's PowerPoint presentation! Eileen Kramer, Columbus State University Kramer discussed her topic, Adventures in a World of Troubles: The Power and Perils of Using a Scripted Paper to Assess Information Literacy. Is it possible to assess learning in an information literacy course through a paper that asks specific questions in plain language? According to Ms. Kramer, the answer may be yes. By looking at whether and how students answered ten questions incorporated in a final assessment paper for a one-credit library course, Ms. Kramer could not only gauge students' information literacy skills, but also discover any pitfalls in her own teaching and course design. Jonathan Darby, Georgia College & State University Darby used his online tutorial for students, ACCESS, as a starting point to discuss what COPLAC (Council on Public Liberal Arts Colleges) institutions across the country are doing to assess information literacy. Mr. Darby used sample assessment tools gathered from COPLAC librarians to illustrate how these schools are assessing student knowledge of research skills.

Fostering Information Literacy Across the Trenches: Investment 2003 Annual Meeting at the University of Georgia in Athens -- May 30, 2003 "Strategies for Collaboration," presented by Monica Pereira, University of Georgia Instructor-librarian collaboration is the lynchpin in promoting information literacy on university and college campuses. This paradigm, while not news to teaching librarians, is sharpening in focus and demands different techniques and approaches to sharing a library's resources. Teaching librarians and staff must develop a simple, consistent and powerful message that forwards our mission among our campus constituents. "Teach Them What They Don't Know: Using an Information Literacy Assessment Tool to Tailor Instruction," presented by Jana Lonberger & Erin Mooney, Emory University In collaboration with Anthropology faculty, Greta Boers, Jana Lonberger, and Erin Mooney at Emory’s Woodruff Library designed and delivered an interactive, Web-based information literacy competency test that measures students' competency levels in basic library and information-seeking skills. This assessment tool is delivered to students in an Anthropology methods class at the beginning and end of each semester. Based on skill deficiencies identified via initial test results, teaching faculty and librarians have been better able to tailor subsequent instruction to address the specific needs of students. End-of-semester test results indicate a marked improvement over initial scores, and the quality of students’ completed class research assignments is higher than that from assignments completed prior to implementation of the competency test and tailored instruction. A project to adapt the test for use in other curriculum settings is in the planning stages. Ultimately we hope to provide benchmark data to help librarians, teaching faculty, and administrators better understand and improve the information literacy skills of Emory’s students. "From Immersion to the Classroom: Putting Theory into Practice Team Teaching a Credit Class," presented by Anna Van Scoyoc, University of Georgia How do you take what you’ve learned at Immersion (or any other workshop) and use it in your real life? Hear about one librarian’s experience team teaching a three-credit research course with a faculty member. "The Librarian as the Perfect Catalogue : Effective Measures for Making Contact with Teaching Faculty," presented by Kimberley Barker, Georgia College & State University Does the teaching faculty at your school contact you on a regular basis for their information needs? Do they let you know when they're teaching special courses to arrange for materials and instruction? Do they even know who you are?? If you answered "no," help is on the way! Join me as I offer simple, effective suggestions for ways to begin building a strong relationship with your faculty charges.

Information Literacy: What's it All About? 2002 Annual Meeting at Mercer University in Atltanta -- May 17, 2002 Learn about the ACRL standards for information literacy Hear from Alicia McCalla and Rebecca Roberts, alumni of the National Institute for Information Literacy's Immersion program Brainstorm with librarians from your peer institutions about how they are defining and integrating IL into their instruction programs Decide where we as a state want to go from here *No further information available about 2002 meeting.

First Impressions: Getting Your Freshmen Into the Library 2001 Annual Meeting -- May 11, 2001 Nancy Reinhold and Jana Lonberger, Emory University First year students at Emory University have multiple opportunities to learn about library resources and services, starting with New Student Orientation before school starts and extending throughout the academic year. Jana Lonberger and Nancy Reinhold of Emory's Woodruff Library will describe the library's program designed to meet the special needs of the first year student - including freshmen, Oxford continuees, transfer students, international students, and graduate students. Rebecca Roberts, Berry College At Berry College, freshmen are introduced to the library and its services as a component of Freshman Seminar (BCC100). The Library Skills segment of BCC100 consists of a one-hour combination tour and instruction session. There is a required assignment, as well. Students must complete both the assignment and the library skills class in order to graduate. Roberts discussed our program as it currently exists, what works and what doesn't with its current incarnation, and presented the group with our proposal for an Information Literacy program as a core curriculum requirement that would augment our existing program. The final piece of the talk included a discussion of the proposed options among the meeting participants, and establish communication between the represented schools about Information Literacy and its role at their institutions. Cheryl Stiles, Kennesaw State University "First Year Experience--The Library and Beyond" Kennesaw State University's Department of Learning Support offers a semester-long course entitled the "KSU Freshman Seminar." Each fall semester the class is usually a "sell out" with 36-37 sections filled to capacity (25 students each). In spring semester approximately 12 sections are offered. As a regular component of the course, KSU librarians conduct an orientation to online research, to GALILEO, and to the numerous additional electronic resources of the library. These sessions take place in a lab setting and are hands-on in nature. In addition, slightly more than half the Freshman Seminar instructors bring their classes for an hour-long tour of the library. Approximately 1200 freshmen per year are exposed directly to library resources and services through this venue alone. KSU created a textbook, Making Connections, for the course. The text contains a chapter about the library (the latest revision co-authored by three librarians) and a library assignment. In addition to work with the KSU Freshman Seminar, the librarians provide tours/orientations/online training sessions for many of the ENG 1101 classes and for the Lifelong Learning Center (primarily for nontraditional students). Carla Buss, University of Georgia The University of Georgia began a new, intensified summer orientation program in 2000 called the "Freshmen College Summer Experience." At FCSE, 200 pre-freshmen lived together in a dorm during summer semester, took selected core classes together, and had numerous activity nights including a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" night at the library. Carla Buss will briefly describe how the library got involved with FCSE and the game itself.