The Benefits of Faculty-Librarian Collaborations | Faculty Focus
By:
Andrea Gillaspy-Steinhilper in
Instructional Design July 16, 2012
Community College instructors have a great deal to teach:
study skills, a college orientation to
education, and the actual course information for their discipline. They also know that their
students must be information literate, must know how to find supplementary information for each course, how to use information effectively, and how to credit their sources appropriately. In this regard, Washington State Community and Technical Colleges have been working under an LSTA grant on
Information Literacy from 2008-2012 (Washington). Lower Columbia College libraries have been using the grant to integrate librarians or
library tutorials into face-to-face and online classes, thereby offering information literacy instruction to students without increasing the teaching load of the discipline instructors. When incorporated with research assignments, this instruction, along with embedded librarians, facilitates both student learning and faculty grading of assignments. Read
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Andrea Gillaspy-Steinhilper is a reference librarian at Lower Columbia College.
References:
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Business Administration subject guide.” (rev. 2011) Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved May 2012 from
http://lowercolumbia.edu/nr/exeres/9CC35863-7A1D-4F77-88D0-6E2E2F083DC9.
“Determining the level of scholarship, authorship, and audience of an article.” (2011). Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved 29 June 2012 from
https://lstahighlights.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ppt_scholarly_v_popular.pdf.
GillaspySteinhilper, A. (Winter 2012). “Cancer and genetic mutations.” Tegrity Recording. Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved 11 May 2012 from
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Washington State Community and Technology Colleges LSTA Grant 2008-2012. (25 April 2012). Retrieved 11 May 2012 from
http://informationliteracywactc.pbworks.com/w/page/19923193/FrontPage.
