A remembrance celebration was held for former University Librarian Page Ackerman on Friday, July 28, in the UCLA Faculty Center. Ms. Ackerman was UCLA's fourth University Librarian from 1973 to 1977. During her career as an Associate University Librarian and then as University Librarian, she was very involved in personnel administration and staff development and played an important role in building the UCLA Library. Because Ms. Ackerman was held in such high regard by Library staff, when she retired many staff volunteered to make sections of a large patchwork quilt, which Page treasured throughout the rest of her life. Indicative of the respect and love that people felt for Ms. Ackerman, 100 guests were expected to attend the tribute—however, over 150 guests showed up to participate in the celebration.

Gary E. Strong hosted the celebration and read remarks sent from University Librarian Emeritus Russell Shank and from Duane E. Webster, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries

Former Library CFO Sonia Luna and Bridget Risemberg of the Music Library performed Bach and Mozart

Strobe Talbott, Ms. Ackerman’s second cousin, President of the Brookings Institution and former US Deputy Secretary of State gave the keynote speech

Anne Swedenberg Prussing, former UCLA biomedical librarian, knew Page from childhood on.

Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams read remarks sent by former Chancellor Charles E. Young

Gloria Werner, University Librarian Emerita, gave the final tribute.

Following the program guests enjoy the exhibits and refreshments

Florence Ridley, retired English Professor, with Page Ackerman’s relative

Norah Jones, former Head of technical Services

Gary Strong, Strobe Talbott and his wife Brooke Shearer

Helen Palmer, retired cataloger admires the quilt

youngest celebrant

The Joys of Assessment

If you have experience or an interest in measuring outcomes, gathering and analyzing data, or assessment in general, we need you!

The Information Literacy Program (ILP) Assessment Interest Group designs and undertakes projects large and small that measure the information literacy of UCLA students and the effectiveness of the Information Literacy Program. This interest group has been working on several important and innovative projects over the past few years, namely the Summary of Instructional Activities (SIA) Database and the ICT Literacy test through ETS. Undoubtedly, assessment is an integral part of any program or project, and regardless of where your primary responsibilities lie (public service, cataloging, etc.).

Some projects that the Assessment team is working on include:
-- Developing workshops to help library staff gather and analyze assessment data in order to improve student learning
-- Gathering information on assessment being done by librarians – both direct and indirect – at UCLA
-- Working with library units to create small projects that help them assess their students’ information literacy competency

Contact Stephanie Brasley (sbrasley@library.ucla.edu) if you are interested or would like to learn more.

Discount for Internet Librarian 2006 Compliments of SCOUG

SCOUG (the Southern California Online Users Group) and Information Today Inc. have joined in partnership to offer discounted registration for the upcoming Internet Librarian 2006, October 23-26, 2006, Monterey, CA.

You do not need to be a member of SCOUG to enjoy this terrific offer!

In order to take advantage of these savings, please print and complete the registration form, include payment and FAX or MAIL the form to the SCOUG Registrar. Required paperwork and instructions are available at www.scougweb.org/il-disc2006.htm.

The SCOUG rate for the full three day conference is $245. The regular price is $409. No discounts are available for the preconference seminars. For those interested in the Internet @ Schools program, the SCOUG rate is $169. Regular price for that program is $209. You can register through SCOUG for both the full three day conference and the Internet @ Schools for $245 for the combo.

ACT NOW - DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 18TH.

Find more information about the Internet Librarian 2006 at: www.infotoday.com/il2006/ or SCOUG at www.scougweb.org/.

LibVibe: New PodCast Program

Want to keep up on professional news and investigate podcasting at the same time? Take a look LibVibe LibVibe.com/ (also libvibe.blogspot.com/).

Each edition, approximately five minutes long, will feature a review of library news headlines in an upbeat, professionally-produced format.

You don't need an iPod to access these podcasts. Listen on any computer with a sound card and speakers or headphones. Visit LibVibe.com/ to earn more and subscribe (free) to the feed and have new editions added to your My Yahoo! or other Web aggregator, or even receive email notification whenever a new edition is available. Please feel free to email your questions or comments to LibVibe@gmail.com.

What are Best Practices Anyway?

Have you heard the phrase “Best Practices” and wondered what that means? Check out "Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy That Illustrate Best Practices: Overview, Purpose and Use, History" at www.tltgroup.org/TailoredWebsites/InfoLit/BestPracticesOverview.htm.

Publication Opportunity

Here’s your chance to be heard. Submit a chapter proposal for the forthcoming casebook on online information literacy [IL] programs. The book, to be published by ACRL, will be edited by Michael F. Russo and Alice L. Daugherty, librarians who have taught information literacy online.

The goal of the book is to identify and present significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution's online information literacy instruction effort. The editors are not looking for research papers. They are looking for your experience. By pooling the experiences of numerous institutions and programs, large and small, They hope to provide a bank of knowledge that would serve as a resource to other institutions currently teaching IL online, as well as to those contemplating it.

Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 250-500 words, by e-mail (Word document or plain text), to Alice L. Daugherty on or before Sept. 30, 2006. In their proposal, prospective authors should conceive a chapter of approximately 15 pages that will touch on the following:

• Rationale: What prompted your institution to begin online IL instruction?
• Content: What did you want your students to learn and to what depth?
• Development: What problems did you encounter in creating the structure of your instruction program, and how did you solve them? What form did your program ultimately take?
• Instruction: What do you actually do in the virtual classroom? How do you communicate with students? How do you create a sense of community? How do you teach? How do you assess your students?
• Program Assessment: Is the program working? How do you know? Was online instruction more or less effective than classroom instruction in any way? How do you know whether the students are using the IL skills you're teaching them?
• Lessons Learned: As you developed and implemented your program, what worked and what didn't? What glitches did you encounter? How did you solve the problems that popped up? What changes in the program did you or would you make, based on what you've learned?

The book’s goal is to delve into the range of online IL instruction, from tutorials concerning specific aspects of IL to fully-developed credit courses.

When submitting your proposal, please include some information about yourself, including your experience developing or implementing IL instruction, and information about your institution, such as its size and type or Carnegie classification as well as any other information you may think relevant.

Authors will be notified of the status of their proposals and sent chapter organization guidelines by October 31, 2006. Deadlines for accepted manuscripts will be February 28, 2007.

Please use "Casebook" in the subject line of all correspondence.

The editors look forward to hearing from you and can be contacted at:.

Michael F. Russo	Alice L. Daugherty
mrusso1@lsu.edu	adaugher@lsu.edu

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