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"A self paced course that offers library workers the chance to build their awareness, knowledge and skills at their own pace is a fun professional development tool.  This program builds on their concept and seeks to explore the added potential of mobile devices."

Create images of good old fashioned library catalog cards with the book information of your choice and hand-written scribbles! 

"Objective: This study sought to better understand the research expectations of first-year students upon beginning university study, and how these expectations differed from those of their professors. Most academic librarians observe that the research expectations of these two groups differ considerably and being able to articulate where these differences are greatest may help us provided more focused instruction, and allow us to work more effectively with professors and student support services."

This article offers interesting data about expectations of college freshmen and the faculty who work with them.

The December issue of the ILA/ACRL Newsletter is now available. It includes the President's Piece by Rebecca Funke and news from libraries across the state.

It's no secret, I love Barbara Fister. This is a great blog post that reminds me that I have had a very different experience with the creation, organization and distribution of information than many of the students I work with today. I need to reevaluate my assumptions.

"CLIP is creating tutorials that specifically address the larger ideas of information literacy. The collection might look something like an interactive, online information literacy "text book" from which librarians or instructors anywhere can select and use pieces as they choose."

Research tutorial from UC-Irvine; sections include Knowledge Cycle, Searching, Citations

This is great, Sara. Thanks for sharing!

Having just opened the Learning Commons at the University of Iowa, this has been an interesting read!

This research was designed to address a gap in our understanding of information literacy education by adding student perceptions to the question of how to ensure that all students develop the information literacy skills they need as part of their educational experience. The findings from this study provide important input for the design, development, and implementation of information resources and services, particularly those aimed at reaching students with non-proficient information literacy skills. All AIL workshop materials from this study are freely available for educational use from the Information Skills Workshop Materials section of this site. Proper attributions should be given to the researchers (Melissa Gross and Don Latham) and to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for their support in developing these materials. Commercial use of these materials is not permitted.

Interesting article on using citation analysis data to inform the selection of resources for subject guides.

This month, I'll be trying out some PKM workshops such as "Get Organized", "Stay Current" and "Managing Privacy Online". I'm hoping they will be more popular than some of our database-specific workshops and it will be a good opportunity to sneak in some info-lit skills as well.

" Behavior vs. belief and changing culture | Home By Meredith Farkas | August 10, 2012 It's pretty clear from the comments on my recent posts that many of us have a sense that the sort of information literacy instruction we're providing is not having the impact we'd like.

"The information and materials on this page will help program chairs, program coordinators, and assessment coordinators develop their program assessment plans, implement them, and report on them. Assessment Plans and Reports are created at the program level." Includes templates, examples, summaries and more about creating department / program assessment activities.  

Everyone may have seen this article already but wanted to share! Features the University of Iowa!

Big collection of free e-books from NASA, including history, biography and lots and lots of science. Many of them have great archival photos, too.

Thanks, Sara. I shared this on our Sciences Library Facebook page and Twitter feed.