EDUCAUSE Learning Initative Links

Dominique wanted to share these materials with you from her recent ELI meeting. Enjoy!

• ELI Annual Meeting web site
• What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies – podcast available . Highlights an upcoming documentary being created about how Wikipedia has reshaped cultural production of knowledge.
• Exponential Change in Traditional Organizations: McMaster University Libraries – podcast available . How the McMaster Libraries became recognized as one of the most innovative (received the ACRL Award for Innovation this year)
• Collaborative Design and Support of Effective Online Learning Environments – some online materials . How to develop online courses collaboratively with faculty, an instructional designer, and a librarian.
• Human Futures for Technology and Education – webcast available . Michael Wesch (creator of the video “the machine is us/ing us”). Very engaging talk about the future of undergraduate education.

Of course, the 2008 Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

New January LOEX Currents Is Out

You can read it here.

December LOEX Currents

Find it here..as always, interesting articles, job listings and conference details.

New LOEX Currents for Fall is Out

As always it has nice new articles, job listings, upcoming conferences and more. Check it out here.

LOEX Final Call For Proposals

Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007

36th Annual LOEX Conference

www.loexconference.org

May 1-3, 2008

Oak Brook, Illinois

The Illinois LOEX Committee invites you to submit proposals to be considered for presentation at the 36th Annual LOEX Conference. The 2008 conference theme, Librarian as Architect: Planning, Building & Renewing, explores the meaningful building of supportive information literacy learning environments and experiences in instruction.

Presenters are encouraged to think creatively about the theme. Proposals should provide active engagement of participants, model best practice, provide useful information, skills, or ideas or include effective and innovative practices and collaborative approaches. Successful proposals reflect elements of the six themes.
Continue reading LOEX Final Call For Proposals…

LOEX Currents for October/November

There’s info about the upcoming LOEX conference in Illinois in May, including a call for proposals..(Nov 16th) and a list of a zillion interesting jobs and some current articles to peruse.. See it all Here

ACRL/TLT E-Learning Seminar. Thinking Like A Designer

Thinking Like a Designer: How Blended Librarians Can Use Design Thinking for Better Information Literacy Collaboration

An ACRL/TLT Group Online Seminar
September 25-October 2, 2007
(two 90-minute sessions)

Registration information is at the bottom of this page.

Live Webcasts: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m. Eastern

Seminar Leaders:
Steven Bell, Temple University and John Shank, Penn State University

Workshop Goal:
To help participants identify techniques and tools that will enable academic librarians, faculty members, information technologists, instructional design professionals, et al. to discover or develop and implement new approaches for collaboration, to achieve maximum integration of the library into the teaching and learning process throughout their institutions. To help guide such collaborative efforts toward library, curricular, and other related institutional goals - especially those of advancing information literacy.

Workshop Description:
There is an extensive body of literature on information literacy and the importance of librarian-faculty collaboration in achieving it. The workshop will bring a new perspective on information literacy and collaboration through a conceptual framework the workshop leaders refer to as “Blended Librarianship.”

External forces threaten to marginalize the role of the academic library: these forces increase the need for “information literacy” knowledge and skills among students, faculty, and others whose professions require their effective use of new information resources Continue reading ACRL/TLT E-Learning Seminar. Thinking Like A Designer…

Message from Tammy and Cathy H.

We have one librarian who will be attending the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey in late Oct, using her 07-08 professional development funds.

If any one else intends to attend the conference, there is a discount for the second and all additional attendees. I wanted to be sure you all knew you would be able to pay the discounted rate for registration.

Information about the conference can be found at

http://www.infotoday.com/il2007/default.shtml

Reg form can be found at:

https://secure.infotoday.com/il/register.asp

If you plan to go, please make sure you let me know you should get a discount, so I don’t forget to get it for you!! And, also, the registration should be in to me no later than Sept. 24 so I have enough time for campus to process and mail the check. Cathy.

ARL/ACRL announce first regional Institute on Scholarly Communication

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announce the first regional Institute for Scholarly Communication, hosted by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) December 5-7, 2007, in Chicago. This immersive learning experience prepares participants to become local experts within their libraries. Participants, who are encouraged to attend in teams, will become fluent with scholarly communication issues and trends and begin developing outreach plans for their campuses.

“A regional event allows us to support institutions that would not, for whatever reason, attend a national event,” commented Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist at ACRL,”and CARLI makes a wonderful first partner.” Karla Hahn, Director of ARL’s Office of Scholarly Communication noted, “we see this move to a regional event as a natural evolution in the life of the institute. It will enable us to refocus our national efforts to meet the changing needs of the library community.”

Acceptance to the Illinois ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication is competitive; participation is limited to 100 to ensure an environment that fosters group interaction and active participation. Institutions from Illinois will receive preferred consideration, and seats are reserved for 20 participants outside the state. Applications will be accepted until September 14, 2007. Find complete details on the CARLI Web site: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/institute07.html

Consortia or other institutions that may be interested in hosting the next regional Institute on Scholarly Communication should contact Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations, ARL, jblix@arl.org.

ACRL Plagiarism Webinar - The Role of the Librarian in Combating Student Plagiarism

I attended this webinar on July 12, presented by ACRL and featuring Lynn Lampert of CSU Northridge. She was extremely knowledgeable about the issues surrounding student plagiarism and information literacy. Lynn, who is a former colleague of Jeff Williams, is willing to present an onsite workshop here for us, and she would be able to customize the workshop to our needs. Since she’s close by, it would be fairly easy to arrange.

For ACRL’s overview of the webinar, go here.
For the presenter’s slides, contact me and I’ll email them to you. (I was going to upload them here, but the file size exceeds the upload limit.)

Susan Shepherd
sushepherd@ucsd.edu