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AASL President's Program: "Everyone Teaches, Everyone Learns: Brain-based Teaching Strategies for the Library Media Specialist." Saturday June 26, 1999; 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Chair/Convener: Barbara Herrin Terence Parry, an education
consultant based in Toronto, took his audience through the physiological
effects of learning to the several matching teaching and learning styles
and methods that seem to best promote this internal change. Along
the way, he touched on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences,
as well as Daniel Goldstone's theory of emotional intelligence. Parry
enlivens his audience by using a wide range of techniques, particularly
active and collaborative learning.
Saturday, June 26, 1999; 2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Chair/Convener: Barbara Stripling This program focused on the
theory and practice of inquiry based learning, and a web-based learning
environment that operates as a clearinghouse and chat room dedicated to
inquiry based learning. Barbara Greenlief and Sandy Adams, both from
Rosenwald-Dunbar Elementary School in Nicholasville, KY, helped students
complete a project that the students themselves had chosen. Pam Berger,
who is the chair for the AASL ICONNect committee, demonstrated the committee's
MOO. Individuals can connect through http://www.ala.org/ICONN. AASL
invites submissions for a "Best Practices" web page. You can visit
it at http://www.ala.org/aasl/learning/
ACRL Alliances for New Directions in Teaching and Learning Discussion Group Sunday, June 27, 1999, 2:00p.m.-4p.m. Chair/Convener: Mari Miller A small yet energetic group
gathered for the ACRL Alliances for New Directions in Teaching and Learning
Discussion Group. The topic for discussion was: "Organizing for learning:
what are librarians doing to support and create new learning communities/".
Discussion leaders were Mari Miller, UC Berkley; Marilyn Myers, Arizona
State University West; and David Tyckoson, Cal State Fresno. The discussion
leader's challenges were to attend a the American Association for Higher
Education (www.aahe.org) and EDUCAUSE (www.educause.edu) conferences, contact
your institution's IT people, identify new teaching/learning projects,
and post activities on relevant professional listservs.
ACRL/EBSS Instruction for Educators Committee Saturday, June 26, 1999, 9:30a.m.-12:30p.m. Chair/Convener: Dane Ward The committee continued to
work on its book "Connections: Ideas for Librarian and Faculty Collaboration."
It was reported that the ACRL Publications Committee has enthusiastically
approved the project. As it has evolved, the work contains an essay
on interpersonal aspects of collaboration, a literature review, an essay
providing practical guidelines for pursuing collaboration, five case studies
of well-established formal collaborations, twenty-five outstanding examples
of collaboration solicited from a survey, a directory of web resources,
a bibliography of print sources, and a concluding essay prophesizing the
future of collaboration.
ACRL Instruction and Distance Learning Sections Program: "Nothing But Net?" Sunday, June 27, 1999 2:00-5:30pm Keynote Speaker: Ann Bishop ACRL's Instruction and Distance
Learning Sections Program "Nothing But Net?" on supporting digital library
users had five speakers. Anne Peterson Bishop, professor of Library
and Information Science at the University of Illinois; Peggy Seiden, College
Librarian from Swarthmore; Tom Abbott, Dean of Libraries at the University
of Maine; and two students gave insight into how students use libraries
and what libraries can do to help them.
ACRL/IS Continuing Education Committee Saturday, June 26, 1999;2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Chair/Convener: Deborah Tenofsky, Chair The committee had developed
a new website for news and information of upcoming seminars and workshops
for continuing education courses for librarians. This particular
committee was being absorbed into the IS/Education Committee. The
expanded Education Committee will be working with a new webmaster, Anne
Stoltz of Rutgers University.
ACRL/IS Emerging Technologies Committee Saturday, June 26, 1999;2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Chair/Convener: Ann Scholz-Crane The committee's Internet
Education Project (IEP), a collection of links and information on instruction
resources, was the focus of much discussion. The site is currently
being weeded, and policies for submissions and reviews of new sites to
be added were discussed. A project tentatively titled "Techne for Teaching"
was presented. "Techne" is planned to be a web-based encyclopedia/bibliography/set
of examples on various teaching technologies currently being used, with
the goal of rapidly introducing technology to faculty.
ACRL/IS Policy Committee Saturday, June 26, 1999, 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Chair/Convener: Victoria A. Nozero The Policy Committee discussed
proposed changes to the Instruction Section Bylaws, suggestions and recommendations
to the Resource Checklist for IS committee chairs' website (http://www.
utexas.edu/is/organization/resoureclist.html), and the review/revision
of the preconference and conference planning manual. Another task of the
committee has been researching virtual committees as an alternative way
for IS to do their work. Future projects of the committee include submitting
virtual committee findings of IS committees to the Executive Advisory Committee.
ACRL/IS Revision of Model Statement Task Force Saturday, June 26, 1999, 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Chair/Convener: Carla List The Revision of the Model
Statement Task Force met to review and discuss the draft of the Information
Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html).
There was a sense that the standards themselves should be shared locally
with non-librarians, especially if they are to be used in accreditation.
Members also felt that the standards offered guidelines in how best to
talk to faculty about these issues, but that the document needed to be
written in clear and understandable, non-librarian language for this to
happen. A crucial point made was that information literacy is not
only attained through library instruction, but throughout the university.
ACRL Task Force on Information Literacy Competency Standards Sunday, June 27, 1999, 8:00am Chair/Convener: Patricia Iannuzzi The committee held an open
meeting to discuss the draft of the Information Literacy Competency Standards
for Higher Education (http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html). Some of
the issues discussed were critical thinking, intellectual property, higher
education versus K-12, dated language, the value of professional associations,
and the addition of a glossary. The document seems to have a bias toward
group learning. The document is mostly cognitive, but is there a
way to incorporate any affective elements of information literacy?
It was suggested that the Task Force seek endorsements from other organizations,
and package it appropriately for target groups.
RUSA MARS Education, Training & Support Committee Program: "Riding the Merry-Go-Round: Models for Training Public Services Librarians in a Continually Changing Electronic Environment" Saturday, June 26, 1999 2:00-4:00 p.m. The RUSA MARS Education,
Training & Support Committee program entitled "Riding the Merry-Go-Round:
Models for Training Public Services Librarians in a Continually Changing
Electronic Environment," was a big success with well over 300 people in
attendance. Carol Tenopir spoke on "The Changing World of Public
Services Librarians." Anne Lipow spoke on "Staying Ahead When You're Already
Behind: New Competencies and Models for Keeping Up to Speed." Diane
Brown spoke on "Case Studies in Cooperation and Training."
School Partnership Discussion Group Sunday, June 27, 1999, 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m. Chair/Convener: Kate Todd Christine Ginsberg, from
the Darien Library in Connecticut described the implementation of a min-grant,
Whatever the Weather, Let's Research Together, a joint project with Hindley
Elementary School. Public librarians visited participating upper
grade classes twice before a weather assignment was due. Other school-public
library partnerships were discussed, such as the Connecting Library and
Schools Project in New York City in which public librarians visit school
classes (pre-K through 8) to encourage reading and to register students
for library cards.
Training Design & Delivery: CLENE Trains Your Trainers, a Pre-Conference Workshop Thursday, June 24, 1999 and Friday, June 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Chair/Convener: Amy E. Bernath and Diane M. Brown, Solinet Amy Bernath and Diane Brown
modeled good practice in active learning methods. Stressing the basics
of lesson planning, they lead the participants through goals and objectives,
agendas, and final assessment. One group explored the topic of hand
shadow puppets and their value in storytelling. Amy and Diane used a succession
of "icebreakers" that brought a sense of security gained through focussing
on a clearly understood agenda.
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