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Visualizing History in the Classroom: A Faculty-Librarian Partnership in the Digital Age
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Lach, Pamella R.; Pollard, Elizabeth A. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Productive, equitable, and reciprocal librarian-faculty partnerships are difficult to establish for a range of reasons. This case study describes a long-term collaboration between a Digital Humanities (DH) librarian and a History professor. We trace our two-year partnership from inception and test-run in a small undergraduate seminar to a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Librarians, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, History Instruction
Building an Online Curriculum Based on OERs: The Library's Role
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Miller, Robert; Homol, Lindley – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are online classroom content that can be reused, modified, and shared freely. The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) undertook a project to redesign its undergraduate curriculum using OERs in place of traditional textbooks. UMUC librarians have played a critical role in this project, helping to find…
Descriptors: Library Role, Online Courses, Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
The Bibliotherapy Education Project: Alive and Well--and Perpetually "Under Construction"
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McMillen, Paula S. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2008
The Bibliotherapy Education Project began as a teaching collaboration between faculty at Oregon State University's Libraries and School of Education. The project's evolution from 1999 to 2004 was previously described in this journal (McMillen 2005). The core of the project is a book evaluation tool, which builds counselor skill and knowledge in…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Internet, Bibliotherapy, Counselor Training
From an Initiative to a Program: Making the Case for Information Literacy
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Brasley, Stephanie Sterling – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
The UCLA Library has had a long-standing commitment to the attributes espoused by the teaching library model outlined in the seminal essay by Stoffle, Guskin and Boisse, "Teaching, Research, and Service: The Academic Library's Role" (1984). Information literacy was identified as a goal in the Library's strategic plan in late 2001. This…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Learning Commons: Bridging the Academic and Student Affairs Divide to Enhance Learning across Campus
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Schmidt, Nancy; Kaufman, Janet – Research Strategies, 2005
The University of Guelph Learning Commons brings student affairs professionals and librarians together to offer students a coherent and integrated approach to learning, writing, research, and technology support. It is distinguished by three characteristics: (1) a partnership model between academic and student affairs; (2) a solid foundation of…
Descriptors: Program Development, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Foreign Countries
The Role of the Library in the First College Year. The First-Year Experience Monograph Series No. 45
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Hardesty, Larry, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2007
While the library is at the center of many campuses physically, it is often an overlooked and underused resource in improving the learning and success of first-year college students. Librarians, classroom faculty, administrators, and higher education researchers come together to explore the potential of the library in shaping the student…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, College Freshmen, Change Agents