Resources

Harvard deans argue it’s time to reimagine higher education’s civic mission. The public purposes of education should go beyond benefits to individuals and focus on a tripod of intellect, morality, and action, all grounded in a knowledge base of American history and constitutional principles.

Website for Imagining America, a consortium of universities and organizations committed to advancing the public and civic purposes of humanities, arts, and design.

Importance of teaching civic engagement in humanities courses.

In 2001, 33 upperclassmen representing 27 colleges gathered at the Johnson Foundation for the Wingspread Summit on Student Civic Engagement. They participated in a group discussion focused on their “civic experiences” in college. Report captures the tensions and promise surrounding meanings that students assign to politics and development as citizens.

Due to the 21st century emphasis on digital collections and electronic resources, libraries face an uncertain future. Librarians have always been teaching, but now must conquer the disparaging status treatment to which they are subjected and evolve their profession by joining their teaching faculty colleagues in classrooms on campuses.

This presentation focuses on on-line workshops that librarians developed to help teaching faculty infuse information fluency into their courses.

Perhaps the most dramatic shift in library services is the transition from a purely physical to a physical/virtual environment. This article examines how 21stC online librarians deliver reference services to students and faculty, and explores the ramifications future librarians’ education, including areas of technology, instruction, interpersonal skills, intellectual property.

Article addresses: what are some of the drawbacks to taking a human rights approach to information rights?

This study uses meta-analysis to examine the relationship between exposure to diversity and cognitive development systematically. Findings suggest that several types of diversity experiences are positively related to several cognitive outcomes, but magnitude of effect varies substantially depending on type of diversity experience, type of cognitive outcome, and study design.

Web-scale discovery services promise fast, easy searching from a single Google-like box, pleasing users and making library resources more discoverable. Some librarians embrace the concept of giving users what they have come to expect from Google, while others are concerned that this will “dumb down” searching and undermine information literacy. In this article we explore the potential impact of Web-scale discovery tools on information literacy, focusing particularly on undergraduate research skills. We review the existing literature and present findings and experiences from two mid-sized academic libraries that have adopted EBSCO Discovery Service as their library home page portal.Web-scale discovery services promise fast, easy searching from a single Google-like box, pleasing users and making library resources more discoverable. Some librarians embrace the concept of giving users what they have come to expect from Google, while others are concerned that this will “dumb down” searching and undermine information literacy. In this article we explore the potential impact of Web-scale discovery tools on information literacy, focusing particularly on undergraduate research skills. We review the existing literature and present findings and experiences from two mid-sized academic libraries that have adopted EBSCO Discovery Service as their library home page portal.