The Public Library as Provider of Library Services to Educational Institutions

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高职院校图书馆在线信息素质教育的调查与分析——以100所示范性高职院校为例

文章通过对国内100所示范性高职院校图书馆的OILI进行网络调查,分析了高职图书馆OILI开展的现状,指出了目前高职图书馆OILI中存在的各种问题,并提出了相应的建议。     

美国和香港地区开展在线信息素质教育的情况分析和启示

在对美国和香港地区开展在线信息素质教育的调研基础上总结了其主要类型和主要特点，并结合国内大陆大学图书馆在此方面的实施情况提出了几点建议。     

图书馆"在线信息素养课程"构建与实现

在广泛调研国内外高校图书馆在线信息素养教育内容和形式的基础上,分析了我国高校信息素质教育目前存在的一些问题,提出构建集成化、开放式的图书馆"在线信息素养课程"建议,并从教学内容的整体构架、教学模式、模块内容、学习效果测试和反馈方面展开探讨.     

台港澳地区在线信息素质教育情况的比较与分析

台港澳地区在线信息素质教育对处在初步发展阶段的我国大陆地区在线信息素质教育的开展具有重要借鉴意义。文章在调查台港澳地区知名高校的在线信息素质教育平台的基础上，着重对其教育类型和主要特点进行了分析，以此来说明台港澳地区在线信息素质教育的现状。最后结合我国大陆的具体情况及台港澳地区的先进经验，对我国如何有效地开发在线信息素质教育平台，普及信息素质教育提出几点建议。     

Enhancing Library Instruction to Undergraduates: Incorporating Online Tutorials into the Curriculum

ABSTRACT

Librarians can replace or supplement traditional in-class instruction with course-specific online tutorials. The literature demonstrates how tutorials customized for specific courses are more beneficial than tutorials on basic research skills. Many authors discuss creating online tutorials but do not design one devoted to a specific course. With increasing demand for instruction services, online tutorials can ease staffing concerns prevalent at many libraries and otherwise enhance the quality of instruction and its application to varied learning styles. Using the Blackboard course management system, the authors created an online tutorial tailored to the required World Civilizations course at the University at Buffalo. The tutorial incorporated elements of successful online tutorials described in the literature: clear terminology, a quiz for self-assessment, opportunities for active learning, and individual e-mail feedback between students and librarians, and applied them to a specific course. The authors discuss student and librarian reaction to the tutorial and make recommendations for how the tutorial can be improved and implemented in everyday instruction services.     

我国高校图书馆在线信息素养教育资源调查及建设策略

以国内39所“985工程”高校图书馆为调查对象,通过网络调查法,从图书馆主页中的发布途径、开放程度、资源内容、表现形式和资源来源等方面,分析在线信息素养教育资源的建设情况,提出我国高校图书馆在线信息素养教育资源建设策略,包括纳入资源服务系统,实现一站式检索;借鉴MOOC的合作开放理念,实现资源共建共享;加强信息道德和法律内容的建设,注重特色资源建设;丰富教育资源的多样化表现形式;扩大馆外优质资源的收集与推荐等。     

Complex Questions,Evolving Answers

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Since 2001, librarians at Oregon State University's Valley Library have been working to build a “teaching library” supported by a clearly articulated instruction program. From the start, we believed that we needed to assess the teaching library's impact, not only to determine the success or failure of our efforts but also to demonstrate the need for intentional, proactive information literacy instruction on our campus. No single assessment tool or method proved adequate to effectively measure student learning happening both inside and outside the library. We describe our evolving, multi-pronged approach to measuring the impact of the library on student learning in the context of current assessment practices in academic libraries and higher education.     

Matching Up Learning Styles with Learning Objects: What's Effective?

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Online instruction is quite prevalent on campuses and within libraries. Librarians are engaged in the creation of learning objects that can either be linked to or embedded within course-management systems. But are those instructional tools designed to best accommodate diverse learners or are they constructed to reflect the teaching and learning style of the designer? Results from a study (a survey of librarians, student usability studies, and interviews) document both considerations made in the creation of learning objects, and the effectiveness of learning objects from students’ perspectives. The findings may be useful for future modifications of these tools (e.g., tutorials, videos, podcasts, and PowerPoints).     

Promoting Critical Thinking Skills in Online Information Literacy Instruction Using a Constructivist Approach

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A constructivist approach to teaching and learning holds that the learner, through interaction and experience with an object or process, creates knowledge. Instruction based upon constructivist theory places the student at the center of the learning environment, while the instructor serves as a guide or facilitator. In direct contrast, traditional learning places the learning in a more passive role, simply mirroring or reproducing knowledge that was provided by the instructor. Constructivist theory has enjoyed a certain level of popularity in higher education as emphasis has shifted from a pedagogical framework to a more andragogical (i.e., adult and learner-centered rather than instructor-lead) one. Emphasis upon teaching critical thinking skills seems a natural fit with a constructivist-based approach to learning. Critical thinking involves the conceptualization, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and ultimate application of information so that the learner may reach conclusions or form independent judgments based upon what the learner has experienced combined with previous knowledge. The teaching of critical thinking skills using a constructivist-based approach in the field of online library instruction would be an effective means of reaching the large percentage of learners who do not participate in traditional face-to-face bibliographic instruction sessions. This is further supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries' Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education. This article will provide theoretical and philosophical arguments for constructivist-based approaches to teaching critical thinking skills online using online technologies.     

“Google Reigns Triumphant”?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative,Situated Information Literacy Instruction

Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is driven by advertising. American higher education unwittingly fosters the use of search engines in research by emphasizing results rather than process. Academic librarians emulate teaching faculty in their reliance on lectures, and their course-related instruction is limited in its effectiveness because it is constrained to one-shot, lecture-driven sessions. A more effective way to teach research is to collaborate with faculty via problem-based and project-oriented learning tasks that incorporate authentic discipline-specific information finding and critical thinking into assignments.     

Framework + digital badges = online instruction for today

This case study evaluates the process of developing modules for inclusion in a learning management system that are informed by the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). A replicable, transparent process was used to match more task-oriented topics suggested by librarians and teaching faculty to the Framework. As more and more students receive instruction online it is important for academic libraries to provide robust services to those users within the LMS as well as outside of it. By providing instruction within the LMS that is tied to the Framework, and by using digital badges to make the exploration of information literacy more obvious to students, instructors, and librarians, libraries can develop instruction that meets users at their point of need and provides content while lowering the need for direct librarian involvement in all online courses.     

大学图书馆在线信息素质教育平台的构建

从总体构架、用户层次、功能模块、技术支持、资源数据库5个方面介绍信息素质教育平台的构成及功用,分析其有用性,以解决当前信息素质教育领域存在的数字化程度不高、缺乏合作交流等问题。证明在线信息素质教育平台是大学图书馆开展信息素质教育的理想选择。     

在线信息素质教育的框架体系及其实现

分析在线信息素质教育的产生背景以及它在美国和加拿大等地区的发展情况,结合国内的实际并以北京大学的网络培训为案例,探讨构建在线信息素质教育的框架体系与实施方法。指出在线信息素质教育目前存在合作性、更新维护、培训效果评估等问题,并提出解决这些问题的办法。     

Delivering Information Literacy Instruction for a Joint International Program: An Innovative Collaboration Between Two Libraries

This article focuses on a collaborative project between Mount Saint Vincent University Library and Bermuda College Library to introduce students to services and resources at the libraries of the partner institutions. Using Web conferencing software that allowed for voice, instant messaging chat, and live Web demonstration, a series of workshops was developed to introduce students to the concepts of information and literacy and reinforce for the students that they were able to access librarians and library services at both institutions. Issues relating to both the students’ home library at Bermuda College in Hamilton, Bermuda and their remote library at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia, Canada are examined, including the obstacles that have been surmounted as well as recommendations for other libraries considering this type of partnership. Strategies, activities, and tools used to implement the initiative are discussed.     

独立学院图书馆在线信息素质教育现状调查及对策浅析——以2013年排名前100所独立学院为例

我国独立学院图书馆在线信息素质教育尚处于初级阶段,在调查2013年排名前100名独立学院图书馆在线信息素质教育现状的基础上,分析其存在的问题,从构建教学平台、丰富教学内容及形式、注重学习评价与反馈、合作共享等方面提出发展独立学院图书馆在线信息素质教育的建议。