NELIG Annual Program 2004
Creative Collaborations:
It Takes a Campus to Educate a Student

Academic Librarians in the Story Line Not Only in the Epilogue
    - Keynote Speaker: Keith Barker - Associate Vice Provost, Undergrad. Ed; Director of the Institute for Teaching & Learning at UConn
This presentation will focus on the changing pattern of curricular design, faculty development, and the delivery of instructional content in the classroom. Academic librarians now have a more distinct role in each of these aspects as well as a primary responsibility for professional development using new tools and technologies for teaching and learning.
 

How to Market the Library for Collaborations 
          Janice Wilbur - Head of Access Services, Assumption College
          Carole Myles - Electronics Resources Librarian
In creating a marketing plan for the library, the d'Alzon Library found opportunities for collaboration within the college community.  We have already formed working relationships with faculty departments, Academic Support, and Career Development Services.
 

Information Literacy and Technology Across the Curriculum (faculty workshops for integrating info lit into courses)
          Thomas Brennan - Director of IT, Salve Regina University
          Kathleen Boyd - Director of Library Services, Salve Regina University
          Cathy Rowe - Reference and Instructional Services Coordinator, Salve Regina University
Responding to an initiative in the University's revised core curriculum to address life-long learning skills, a collaborative effort involving parties from the Library and Information Technologies was formed resulting in a program for faculty entitled "Information Literacy and Technology Across the Curriculum".   The purpose of the program is to assist faculty in the development of class assignments and projects for their students that utilize information literacy concepts and technology skills.  The presentation will describe the format of the program, the resources made available, the exercises employed and some surprising results!
 

Those Ubiquitous English Composition Classes
   - A Linked Course Experience: Composition, Collections, Community, and the Web
          Kathy Blessing - Serials/Reference Librarian, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln Campus
          Rosemary Prisco - Professor of English, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln Campus
The presenters describe their linked course as an intercurricular, innovative model for academic success and social enrichment. They provide a demonstration of their keystone RIWA website and review the benefits of linking disciplines and integrating technology to initiate research. While the presenters are arts and history based, their approach provides pragmatic methods that may be adapted for collaborative instruction across the curriculum."

   - A Common Sense Approach to Research: Integrating the Library into the Composition Classroom
          Pamela McKay - Reference Librarian, Worcester State College
          Karen Woods Weierman - Assistant Professor of English, Worcester State College
For the past three years, we have collaborated in teaching the library research process to composition students through a project on postwar American historiography. Our presentation will describe our collaborative process, including assignment design, library workshops, and student assessment.
 

Working with Administrative Departments
  - The RWIT Center: An Evolving Experiment in Creative Collaboration (Center for Research, Writing, and Information Technology)
          Laura Braunstein - English Language and Literature Librarian, Dartmouth College
          Karen Gocsik - Director of Composition, Dartmouth College
          Michael Beahan - Director of the Jones Media Center, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College has recently launched a pilot program: RWIT, the Student Center for Research, Writing, and Information Technology.  The RWIT center, a collaborative partnership between the library, academic computing, and the composition center, draws upon the peer tutoring model used with great success in individual research, composition, and technology centers.  The panel members will discuss the administrative and pedagogical challenges of the partnership, and their interest in how research, composition, and technology applications are not standalone activities but collaborative intellectual processes.

 - The Library and Office of Career Services
          John Degon - Head of Reference & Instructional Services, Assumption College
          Carol McGuiggan - Co-Director, Office of Career Services, Assumption College
Assumption College's d'Alzon Library and Career Services teamed to present and instruction workshop on job hunting on the internet. Presenters will discuss various aspects of their workshop including reasons for collaborating, their choice of topic, publicity, and an evaluation of their success.
 
  
Integration into Department Curricula
  - Creating and Implementing a Nursing Information Literacy Program
          Mona Florea - Reference/Instruction Librarian, Three Rivers Community College
          Linda Perfetto - Interim Director, Nursing/AH, Three Rivers Community College
          Lillian Rafeldt - Faculty member, Three Rivers Community College
The project describes the specifics of the creation and implementation of a nursing information literacy program that aims to offer instructor/librarian targeted print and electronic resources, learning and research tools, and learning and research guides and tutorials, all in one place, a nursing information and research gateway that can be accessed from the school classroom or laboratory, the clinical area, or from home. The presentation concludes with the analysis of the program's success evaluation and new directions for improvement.

  - Collaborative Learning Programs and the Library: Challenges and Opportunities
          Hope Houston - Head of Reference Services, Johnson & Wales University Library
          Terry Novak - Faculty member, Johnson & Wales University Library
Collaborative learning environments have proven to be beneficial to student learning experiences.  Involvement in collaborative programs demands a high level of cooperation and teamwork on the part of students, faculty and staff.  This presentation will examine the development of a community learning program in a business college environment, look at the interdependence of its participants, and the effect of such programs on library instruction.
 

Orienting New Students
   - Student Construction Site: Collaboration Building at URI
          Mary MacDonald - Information Literacy Librarian, University of Rhode Island
          Brian Gallagher - Librarian/Lecturer, University of Rhode Island
          Mindy Drake - GSLIS student, University of Rhode Island
This summer will mark the seventh year of continued collaboration between the University of Rhode Island's University Library and URI's Talent Development Program, a collaboration implemented to provide approximately 350 students of color and students from disadvantaged backgrounds with their first taste of university life. For our presentation, we plan to share the steps taken in the annual realization of this collaboration between the Talent Development Administrators and tutors, the members of the URI faculty, the URI Information Literacy Literacy Librarian, the subject liaison librarians, and URI's GSLIS Program.

   - The First Year Experience Program at the University of Connecticut
          Kathy Labadorf - Undergraduate Services Librarian, University of Connecticut
          Peter Stevens - Assistant to the Registrar and FYE Instructor, University of Connecticut
The FYE Program at UConn is a tremendous model of campus-wide collaboration, and the library has always been a major player. In our presentation, we will talk about how we collaborate to bring the library and its resources into the students' first semester. The FYE WebCT Portal incorporates Web pages specifically designed for first year students on topics ranging from study skills to library research to health. FYE instructors are offered several options for their class visit depending on their need and an assessment tool is recommended. The FYE Program itself is a model of collaboration and interacts heavily with such departments as Career Services, Cultural Centers, Art Museum, Academic Counseling, Advising, Drugs and Alcohol, Student Health, Student Government, Women's Center, and many more offices on campus.
 

Working with Grants - Translating info lit projects into grants and grants into projects
   - Collaborations with Faculty in Upper Division, Discipline Specific Courses
          Laura Robinson - Reference/Instructional Services Librarian, Nichols College
In fall 2004, Nichols College will begin the implementation of an information literacy project funded by the Davis Educational Foundation that is aimed at ensuring all upper division students at the college receive exposure to information literacy training related to courses in their majors.  A successful pilot project was conducted during fall 2003.  This presentation will focus on assessment of the project, with some discussion of how the pilot project was used to write a successful grant proposal. 

   - Information Literacy Embedded in the Curriculum
          Jack Dougherty - Educational Studies faculty, Trinity College
          Jenny Groome - Reference Librarian, Trinity College
          David Tatem - Academic Computing, Trinity College
Trinity College, together with Connecticut College and Wesleyan University, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Library, Faculty, and IT collaborative programs in information literacy across the curriculum. As part of the CTW Mellon Project for Information Literacy, course-development grants have been awarded to Trinity faculty for the integration of information literacy instruction into teaching and assignments.  The presentation will focus on the development of information literacy within an educational studies course as one example. 
 

Working with Information Technology Centers
  - A Collaborative Journey: From Gopher Training to EndNote Instruction
          Deborah Garson - Head of Research Services, Gutman Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
A presentation highlighting the ongoing teaching collaboration between the Learning Technology Center staff and the Gutman Library Research Services staff at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  The co-taught classes began with Gopher training sessions and have evolved to EndNote trainings, and defined a new community of practice.

  - The Information Commons at the Annenberg Library Loft
          Marilyn Bregoli - Director, Annenberg Library, Pine Manor College
          Amy Stimac - Information Technology Librarian, Pine Manor College
In 2003, the Annenberg Library and the Pine Manor College Department of Institutional Technology collaborated to create a new position, the Information Technology Librarian, and a new learning space within the library, the Information Commons. The Information Commons replaces an unstaffed computer lab in the basement of the library that students viewed as separate from the Library, both physically and functionally. Today, the Commons is completely integrated into the Library, providing reference, instructional, and technology related services. Presenters will discuss benefits, challenges, and lessons learned during this successful inaugural year.