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Silver, Isabel – Public Services Quarterly, 2014
The Authors@UF program series emerged to showcase the scholarship and creativity of faculty, creating an intellectual forum within the academic library, and providing informal, extra-curriculum, academic engagement between students and faculty outside the classroom. This article identifies steps to launch an author program, and considerations in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Authors
Morris, Jacquelyn M.; Webster, Donald F. – 1976
This workshop, which introduced a model for developing library instruction programs based on written objectives, provided participants with practical experience in preparing objectives as a basis for program planning through discussion of the various elements of planning such a program and analyses of case studies through assigned tasks. The first…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials, Library Instruction
Talan, Carole – American Libraries, 1998
The Equipped for the Future (EFF) project of the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) helps adult learners (and their tutors) develop literacy skills with a focus on "real life" lessons. This paper discusses projects in California public libraries that use EFF. A sidebar describes LINCS (Literacy Information and Communication System)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Learner Controlled Instruction
Strong, Gary E. – American Libraries, 1998
The director of the Queens Borough Public Library (Jamaica, New York) examines the role of the public library in helping to prevent illiteracy and discusses innovative ways libraries can serve adult readers and learners, using the Queens model as an example. Includes a sidebar by Audrey Gorman "Toward a New Definition of Literacy." (AEF)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Illiteracy, Library Role
Tenney, H. Baird; And Others – 1993
This handbook offers a practical set of ideas to help all types of libraries in the task of marketing their services in an increasingly competitive economy and provides a model program as urged by the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. It is aimed at adult information services in particular, with passing references to…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Childrens Libraries, Economic Factors, Evaluation Methods
Hurley, Bernard J.; Price-Wilkin, John; Proffitt, Merrilee; Besser, Howard – 1999
The Making of America (MoA) Testbed Project, coordinated by the Digital Library Federation, is a multi-phase endeavor. Its purpose is to investigate important issues in the creation of an integrated but distributed digital library of archival materials (i.e., digitized surrogates of primary source materials found in archives and special…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Stripling, Barbara K. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1995
Implications from research suggest that library programs must be based around learning, that students' prior learning or mental models affect new learning, and that no significant learning occurs unless students are supported in their content and process learning. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Haycock, Ken; Cavill, Pat – 1999
This case study examined: (1) what market research is required for planning for the implementation of "Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning," the 1998 national guidelines for effective school library media programs; (2) what issues need to be addressed and what target audiences are required to effect change, as well as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Harke, Dianne – 1985
Upon the adoption of a provincial statement of policy designed to guide the development and implementation of effective school library programs, the Alberta Department of Education agreed to provide a recommended model for developing an effective, integrated school library program. The model outlined in this document is particularly suitable as a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Instructional Materials
Teo, Elizabeth A.; Jenkins, Sylvia M. – 1993
A description is provided of a program developed at Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC), in Illinois, for providing word processing instruction in the library, including recommendations for program development based on MVCC experience and results from a survey of program participants. The first part of the paper discusses a model development…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Computer Centers, Computer Literacy
Smith, Jane Bandy – 1995
This book is a guide to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum-based library media center program; although based on a middle school model, the tools are adaptable to any school setting. The first section defines a curriculum-based library media program and discusses the concept of change, including how to enlist support for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Instructional Design, Intermediate Grades