Check These Out!

CHECK THESE OUT

The start of the Fall is, for many, a new beginning.  School starts.  The days and nights are cooler.  Start Fall off right by taking a little time to dip into some of the wonderful articles your colleagues have shared.

ARTICLES FROM AN OLD FRIEND:

In recent years, the instruction journal, Research Strategies has had some difficulty in keeping to its publication schedule.  The editor, Natalie Pelster, told readers of the BI-L listserv on May 10 that "we are still an active publication."  The date on the issues " is out of sync with the actual calendar date of publication."  Issues coming out in 2000 will be dated 1999.   Two additional issues should be out soon.

A few of the many interesting articles in the most recent issue (v. 16, no, 4 1998) are highlighted below. Don't be put off by the issue date!  This issue was published in May 2000.
 

Bender, Laura J. and Jeffrey M. Rosen.  “Working Toward Scalable Instruction: Creating the RIO Tutorial at the University of Arizona Library.”  (pp. 315-325)

Gedeon, Randle.  “Accessing the Right Brain with Bibliographic Instruction.”  (pp. 259-270).

Johnson, Anna Marie and Phil Sager.  “Too Many Students, Too Little Time: Creating and Implementing a Self-Paced Interactive Computer Tutorial for the Libraries’ Online Catalog.”  (pp. 271-284)

Olson, John A.  “How to Encourage Students in a Library Instruction Session to Use Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: A Pilot Study.”  (pp. 309-314)

ENHANCING LEARNING
 

Astleitner, Hermann.  "Designing Emotionally Sound Instruction:  The FEASP-approach."  Instructional Science 28.3 (May 2000):  169-198.

Emotions relevant for instruction include fear, envy, anger, satisfaction, and pleasure.   Astleitner describes 20 instructional strategies to decrease negative feelings and increase positive feelings.

Small, Ruth.  "Motivation in Instructional Design."  Teacher Librarian 27.5(June 2000):  29-31.

Summarizes the ARCS model of instructional design to motivate learners, provides a bibliography for more reading, and describes a useful assessment instrument.  ARCS is based on a number of motivational theories and identifies four essential strategies to motivate learning:  attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction.

Weiss, Ruth Palombo.  "Brain-Based Learning"  Training & Development   54.7(July 2000):  20-24.

Summarizes the growing body of theory on brain-based learning, based on evidence neurologists are uncovering about how humans learn.  Weiss presents sections on attention, context and patterns, emotion, memory and recall, and motivation.   This is not a scholarly article, but it points to useful books one might read to learn more.
 

Braun, Linda W.  "Learning from the Inside."   NetConnect  Supplement to Library Journal and School Library Journal (Summer 2000): 28-30.

Asserts that teaching students about what makes a good web site will be more effective if they learn how to create a web site at the same time.    Gives many practical suggestions about what to cover, where to find more information, and where to post the completed web pages.

Lederer, Naomi.  "New Form(at):  Using the Web to Teach Research and Critical Thinking Skills."  RSR (Reference Services Review) 28.2 (2000): 130-153.

Describes a program at Colorado State University to create Web pages for first-year composition courses.   Filled with screen shots, the article gives practical information about the research web pages, which cover such topics as Library of Congress call numbers, evaluating books, articles and Web sites, and the differences between types of periodicals.   The instructional web pages include interactive exercises and the article shows one on electronic searching.  Lederer ends with a discussion of a survey of the composition instructors.

Mestre, Lori S.  "Improving Computer-Use Success for Students of Diverse Backgrounds."   Knowledge Quest   28.5(May/June 2000):  20-28.

Discusses the ways instruction in use of computers for minority students, particularly Latinos, must differ from the instruction given to mainstream students.  Mestre provides information about learning styles, eye contact, group vs. individual instruction, kinetic behavior, personal space, and touch.   She concludes the article with a series of suggestions for working with Latino and other diverse groups in a computerized environment, covering presentation methods, language, search strategies, and classroom environment.
 

CLICK ON THESE!

This is a new section, containing information about web sites that are of interest to instruction librarians.  Hope you enjoy them!
 

Association of College and Research Libraries.  Instruction Section. Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction by Academic Librarians    Chicago:  ALA, 2000.
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/is/projects/objectives/index.html  Accessed July 29, 2000.

Draft revision of the 1987 Model Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction.

Ragains, Patrick.  “Assessment in Library and Information Literacy Instruction.”
http://www.library.unr.edu/~ragains/assess.html   Accessed July 29, 2000.

Provides links to a variety of resources on topics such as distance education and assessment, gateway sites for assessment, pretests, web-based presentations about assessment of library instruction, research in progress, student reactions to library instruction, and usability testing of library instructional web pages.

29th Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, May 8-10, 2000.
Presentations/Handouts     London, Ontario:  University of Western Ontario, 2000.
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/wilu2000/papers.html  Accessed July 29, 2000.

Includes many of the papers and PowerPoint presentations from the most recent of these well-known workshops.  Included are presentations about a library instruction course for business students, creating instruction on the Web, instruction for data literacy,  teaching the online catalog, and the characteristics of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
 

 
Ingram, Albert L.  "Using Web Server Logs in Evaluating Instructional Web Sites."
Journal of Educational Technology Systems 28.2(1998-2000):  137-157.

Intrator, Sam M.  "Starter Dough:  Click, Click, Click…What Do We Know about Reading Hypertext?"  Knowledge Quest 28.4(March/April 2000):  31-34.

Johnson, Anna Marie and Melissa Laning.  "Recipe for Disaster or Formula for Success?   Creating and Assessing a Large Scale Collaborative Library Introduction Exercise for Honors Students."  College and Research Libraries News 61.7(July/August 2000):  597-601.

Junion-Metz, Gail.  "Surf for:  Teacher Knows Best--Some Worthy Web Tutorials to Help You Create Your Own."  School Library Journal 46.5(May 2000): 37.  Also available at:   http://www.slj.com     Choose "Articles,"  then scroll down to "Surf For."

Knotts, Barbara.  "Technology Training at St. Louis Public Library."  Journal of Library Administration 29.1 (1999):  17-35.   Also published in 2000 by the Haworth Press as a monograph:  Library Training for Staff and Customers.
 

 
Neely, Teresa Y., Naomi Lederer, and Jean Winkler.   "Instruction and Outreach at Colorado State University."  (begins on page 273)

Norlin, Elaina and Patricia Morris.  "Developing Proactive Partnerships:  Minority Cultural Centers."  (begins on page 147)

Puffer-Rothenberg, Maureen and Susan E. Thomas.  "Providing Library Outreach to Student Athletes."  (begins on page 131)

Odom, Dennis G. and Alexia C. Strout-Dapaz.  "The 'Open House,' an Effective Library Public Relations and Instruction Tool."  (begins on page 175)
Also published as a monograph:  Library Outreach, Partnerships, and Distance Education:  Reference Librarians at the Gateway   Haworth Press, 1999.

O'Sullivan, Michael K. and Thomas J. Scott.  "Pathfinders Go Online."  NetConnect Supplement to Library Journal and School Library Journal (Summer 2000): 40-42.

LIRT News, September 2000. Volume 23, number 1.
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