Web
in BI - 12/01/1999
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The Boston area held its second
Web-in-BI meeting on December
1, 1999, from noon through 2:00pm at Wentworth
Institute of Technology. Holly
Nagib hosted the meeting, and the five librarians listed below
gave presentations. 27 librarians attended the session. The
following institutions were represented; Boston College, Bunker Hill
Community College, Cambridge College, Emerson College, Emmanuel
College, Harvard University, Lesley College, Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy and Allied Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Northeastern University, Saint Anselm College (Manchester, NH),
Phillips Academy, Simmons College, Wellesley College, Wentworth
Institute of Technology, and Wesleyan University (Middletown,
CT).
Presentations:
Diane Smith, Bunker Hill
Community College
Diane showed the link to the web page for BHCC library instruction.
She uses the library web page and instruction workshops as a platform
for encouraging the integration of information literacy skills across
the curriculum. The workshop program approach is meant to result in
routine library involvement in team-teaching sessions that combine
course content with information literacy skills.
http://www.noblenet.org/bhcc/instruction.htm
Nancy "Sam" Urtz, Saint
Anselm College
For a freshmen-required position paper, Sam uses two webpages
concerning the controversial subject of lowering the drinking
age. The sites she showed were:
http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/drink.html
http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/InTheirOwnWords/EngsInterview.html
She also brought questions freshmen raised upon exploring links from the library web page as a pre-BI exercise. The Geisel Library homepage is http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/library/newonline.html
Finally, she showed her favorite handout for Silverplatter's MLA
Bibliography on CD-ROM. The site is at Fort Lewis College in Durango,
CO.
http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/handouts/mlaguide.htm
Esme DeVault, Wheelock
College
Esme showed an online bibliography, and a web page for Wheelock's
First Year Seminar Technology online course which offer folders of
Web links, and interactive tools such as quizzes and surveys, a
discussion board, student web pages, and more.
http://www.wheelock.edu/library/childbib.html
http://moby.wheelock.edu/courses/fys104/
user logon: studentone
password: studentone
Holly Nagib, Wentworth
Institute of Technology
Holly showed the library orientation tutorial she developed for
freshmen English classes.
http://www.wit.edu/Library/Orientation/index.html
Kendall Hobbs, Wesleyan
University
Kendall showed the web-based tutorials that Wesleyan's librarians
have created. They cover a variety of topics, and are intended to be
used in a variety of ways. The librarians use them as the basis for
classes (such as a class on creating a web page), or as a way to save
time in classes (such as pointing students to a page which explains
how to do interlibrary loans, so
they don't have to spend time in class explaining it). http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/tutlist.htm
Holly
Nagib, Wentworth Institute of
Technology