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By Carol Baumann, Norman Buchwald, and Diana Immisch
Below is a list of resources related to library instruction, many of which are referenced for our presentation on March 6, 2003 (There have been a few additions, since).
Key Text (it's usually available on Norman Buchwald's desk, but it IS available for check out): Hardesty, Larry. The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2007.
Guides to Instructors on Library Assignments
*Chabot College Library. "Evaluating Web Sites Handout." 5 Aug. 2002. Chabot College Library, Hayward, CA. 5 March 2003. <http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluating.html>
This handout provides tips on how to evaluate web sites, including techniques on how to recognize the structure of a web page, the structure of the URL, and recognizing particular types of Web sites.
*Chabot College Library. "The Online World: How Well Do Students Understand It?" 6 March 2003. Chabot College Library, Hayward, CA. 6 March 2003 <http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/onlineworld.html>
This handout discusses the dilemma that students who may have used the Web, may not truly understand the Web universe and describes the pitfalls students can run into when it comes to World Wide Web research. Solutions are proposed on how to create an assignment that allows students to focus first on print materials and materials retrieved through library subscription databases, and to provide instruction on evaluating resources such as Web sites.
*Chabot College Library. "Student Success in the Library: Librarian/Instructional Faculty Collaboration." 28 Feb. 2003. Chabot College Library, Hayward, CA. 5 March 2003. < http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/collaborate.html>
This is our handout to all faculty interested in creating research assignments and scheduling library orientations here at Chabot College.
*Chabot College Library. "Web Evaluation Checklist." 5 Aug. 2002. Chabot College Library, Hayward, CA. 5 March 2003. <http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluation.html>
This checklist functions as an effective worksheet your students can use to evaluate web sites. Requiring students who use publicly accessible web sites to fill out this handout could lead to more effective citations.
*Chabot College Library. "Your Visit to the Library." 28 Feb. 2003. Chabot College Library, Hayward. 5 March 2003 < http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/libraryvisit.pdf>
This is a survey we can give you to hand out to a class preceding a library orientation.
"Creating Effective Library Assignments." 16 Oct. 2002. University Libraries, University of Maryland. 5 March 2003 < http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/assignment.html>
From University of Maryland, Library, this is a clear and concise guideline for faculty scheduling library research assignments. Includes guidelines on how to instruct students how to use the Web and what is a publicly accessible World Wide Web site vs. an article taken from an online database retrieved through the Web.
Hardesty, Larry L. "Strategies for Designing Assignments to Support Information Literacy Initiatives." The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Ed. Larry Hardesty. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2007. 107-119.
Please also take a look at the articles by Philip Davis, Jill Jenson, and Gloria Leckie, listed below. These articles' surveys on student search processes also spell out to faculty how to create effective guidelines for students on effective research assignments.
Student Search Processes and Library Anxiety
"Bibliography: Library Anxiety." 16 July 2002. Mississippi State University Libraries. 5 March 2003 < http://library.msstate.edu/li/lib_anxiety_bib.asp>
*Davis, Philip M. "Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age." portal: Libraries and the Academy 3 (2003): 41-51. Project MUSE. Chabot College Lib., Hayward, CA. 15 Feb. 2003 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v003/3.1davis.html>
Librarians at Cornell University conduct a study on how the impact of the World Wide Web has impacted students' research, focusing on the works cited lists students used for a particular class given by a particular instructor over a number of years. At first, students' citations of books and scholarly articles dropped while use of newspapers and publicly accessible World Wide Web sites increased. Once the instructor provided guidelines for the students' research assignments to emphasize quality and accuracy, students' use of books and scholarly articles (including those retrieved online) began to increase, while use of publicly accessible sites decreased while those used improved in quality.
Fister, Barbara. "The Research Process of Undergraduate Students." Journal of Academic Librarianship 18 (1992): 163-169.
Hong, Miaio. "Library Instruction for Diverse Populations: A Selective Annotated Bibliography." Instruction for Diverse Populations Committee. 6 Aug. 2000. Marywood University Library, Scranton, PA. 5 March 2003 < http://tinyurl.com/adtfn>
Provides an effective bibliography on the information seeking behavior or learning needs of diverse students including the disabled, non-traditional, gay/lesbian/transgendered, international, Asian American, Hispanic/Latin American, African American, and first-generation. Articles also include tips on instruction, including library instruction.
Jenson, Jill D. "It's the Information Age: So Where's the Information?" College Teaching 52 (2004): 107-112. <http://tinyurl.com/6ly3t>
Jiao, Qun G. and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie. "Identifying Library Anxiety Through Students' Learning Modality Preferences." Library Quarterly 69 (1999): 202-216. <http://tinyurl.com/4karv>
Jiao, Qun G. and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie. "Self-Perception and Library Anxiety: An Emperical Study." Library Review 48 (1999): 140-147.
Kuhlthau, Carol C. "Developing a Model of the Library Search Process: Cognitive and Affective Aspects." RQ 28 (1988): 232-242.
Kuhlthau studies students' entire search process for a research assignment and then divides the assignment up into seven stages and indicates students' emotions, thoughts, and actions at each stage.
*Kuhlthau, Carol C. "Kuhlthau's Model of the Stages of the Information Process." 26 Sep. 2000. University of Arizona Library. 5 March 2003. < http://tinyurl.com/482gu>
This web site is based on a presentation Carol Kuhlthau gave to librarians and instructors at University of Arizona. Here this table nicely provides good details what students are going through at each of the seven stages of the research process.
*Leckie, Gloria. "Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions About the Undergraduate Research Process." Journal of Academic Librarianship 22 (1996): 201-208. WilsonWeb Library Literature and Information Science (trial). Chabot College Lib, Hayward, CA. 21 Feb. 2003. <http://tinyurl.com/5e7gz>
This article points out the differences between faculty's research process and new students' research process to make a point how some research assignments may turn out problematical to one who is new to research such as undergraduate and community college students.
Mellon, Constance. "Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and its Development." College & Research Libraries 47 (1986): 160-165.
In this article, Mellon surveys college freshmen's responses which each student recorded in their own journals during a library research assignment. Students often voiced fear and uneasiness, not only in using a massive Library, but also expressing their lack of knowledge in research. Their unwillingness to express this fear included approaching the librarian, the professor, and even talking about it with their other students out of fear of being perceived as "dumb." Mellon coins this fear to be "library anxiety," which is similar to math and test anxiety. Library research assignments need to have encouragement and provide effective, constructive steps so that the student will not feel overwhelmed while instructors and librarians alike must allow the students to feel encouraged to ask questions and ask for help.
*Pask, Judith. "Differentiating Information Skills and Computer Skills." portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 (2004): 61-73. <Link>
*Swanson, Troy A. "A Radical Step: Implementing A Critical Information Literacy Model." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 (2004): 259-273. <http://tinyurl.com/6469eh>
Taylor, David. "Undergraduates' Use of Periodicals: Implications for Library Reference Work." Reference Librarian 27/28 (1990): 51-65.
As also expressed in the article, "Desperately Seeking Citations," above, students often pursue research to find resources that just meet their assignment, so that they can have simply, citations. As a result, when it comes to finding periodicals, they are more often interested in seeking "relevant" information, not "right" information. Students new to research are also uneasy with scholarly articles because they often have a jargon and an assumed shared knowledge due to audience. As a result, students will often seek articles from popular periodicals and only select them because it meets their topic, whether or not the article best fits their argument, topic, or course.
Faculty/Librarian Collaborations and Information Competency Programs
Information Competency, also known as Information Literacy is the ability to recognize an information need, the ability to seek and evaluate information, and then be able to organize it. It is an important necessity to often requiring knowledge. However, many students entering college are not information literate, requiring an important challenge instructors and faculty have alike. In order for students to be successful whether in their educational future or in the job world, they must have basic skills in information literacy. Meanwhile, more and more research shows that information literacy works best when instructors and librarians work together in incorporating library research into curriculums, along with important collaborations for success in particular classes.
Association of College and Research Libraries. "A Collaboration/Team Building Bibliography." 2002. American Library Association, Chicago. 5 March 2003 <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/infolit/bibliographies1/collaboration.htm>
This bibliography records articles and online projects of faculty/librarian collaborations from all around the world.
*D'Angelo, Barbara J. and Barry M. Maid. "Moving Beyond Definitions: Implementing Information Literacy Across the Curriculum." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 30: 212-217. <http://tinyurl.com/55nbg>
*Ducas, Ada M. and Nicole Michaud-Oystryk. "Toward a New Experience: Capitalizing on the Faculty/Librarian Partnership." College & Research Libraries 64 (2003): 55-74.
*Feldman, Devin and Susan Sciammarella. "Both Sides of the Looking Glass: Librarian and Teaching Faculty Perceptions of Librarianship at Six Community Colleges." College & Research Libraries 61 (2000): 491-498. WilsonWeb Library Literature and Information Science (trial). Chabot College Lib, Hayward, CA. 21 Feb. 2003.
Jenson, Jill D. "It's the Information Age: So Where's the Information?" College Teaching 52 (2004): 107-112. <http://tinyurl.com/6ly3t>
Johnston, Bill and Sheila Webber. "Information Literacy: Relationship Between Faculty and Librarians." 27 Aug. 2001. Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield. 5 March 2003 < http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/relationship.htm>
Rabinowitz, Celia. "Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum." 12 Feb. 1999. St. Mary's College of Maryland. 5 March 2003 < http://www.smcm.edu/Users/cerabinowitz/BYTE/index.htm>
*Ragains, Patrick. "Infusing Information Literacy into the Core Curriculum.: A Pilot Project at the University of Nevada, Reno." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 1 (2001): 391-407. <http://tinyurl.com/4u9xh>
Smalley, Topsy. "Information Competency in the California Community Colleges." 6 Feb. 2003. Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA. 5 March 2003 <http://www.topsy.org/infocomp.html>
At a future date, all California Community colleges will have an information competency requirement for AA and AS degrees. Meanwhile, Cal State colleges which already have Information Competency requirements would also like transfer students from community colleges to also demonstrate information competency. This site provides links to many projects from all over the state of California as well as the country, to provide all different types of information competency programs.
*Swanson, Troy A. "A Radical Step: Implementing A Critical Information Literacy Model." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 (2004): 259-273. <http://tinyurl.com/47xnq>
"Working Towards Success: Collaboration Bibliography." 3 Apr 2001. Portland State University Library, Portaland, OR. 5 March 2003 < http://www.lib.pdx.edu/instruction/facultyvitality/cobiblio.htm>