David Hirsch has a chapter in the newly published book Building Area Studies Collections (edited by Dan Hazen and James Henry Spohrer, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2007). The chapter is entitled: "From Parchment to Pixels: Middle Eastern Collection Development in Academic Libraries."

Norma Corral (CRIS) participated in the Knowledge River Information Studies class at the University of Arizona for the last two summers. She was a panelist and spoke about the need of “critical thinking” when researching the health issues of Chicana/os and Native Americans in general resources. An article describes the course in Latitude: nnlm.gov/psr/newsletter/?p=157.

Want to go to Germany?

The University of Konstanz Library will be hosting the Konstanz Workshop on Information Literacy (KWIL) 2007 titled "Advanced Users: Information Literacy and Customized Services" on the 8th and 9th of November.

The call for proposals is open until August 31. Speakers will receive free admission and have travel expenses partially covered by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). For more information, see www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Informationskompetenz/KWIL/CFP_KWIL_2007.pdf (PDF).

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please see www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/kwil.

Collections and Information Literacy
Robert Gore

On June 12th the Collaborations and Partnerships Interest Group of the Information Literacy program sponsored "Collections and Information Literacy," a series of short presentations aimed at helping librarians and library staff integrate different types of collections and formats into their information literacy sessions. Here is a synopsis of the five presentations.

Demystifying Special Collections: An Information Literacy Primer
Cristina Favretto and Julie Graham
By exploring partnership opportunities with archives and special collections colleagues, instruction librarians can uncover the mysteries and misconceptions about using unique resources such as the archives, personal papers, and rare books found among the UCLA Library’s special collections. Attendees were invited to think about intriguing and challenging ways to enhance learning and promote critical thinking skills by incorporating these rich resources into practical and memorable information literacy sessions. For more information, contact Julie Graham or Cristina Favretto. Descriptions of all of UCLA’s special collections can be found here: www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special.cfm.

Music: Art - Insight - Entertainment
David Gilbert
Mary Poppins said, or rather she sang, "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." In the music departments, students study music as an art, how to perform it, what it means, and its history. Other departments on campus study music too, as part of culture, to teach a foreign language, or to provide insight into the other arts. To support all of this, the Music Library has around 25,000 CD’s and subscribes to online audio services with 1000’s of tracks of all kinds of music. Librarians can use this music in their information literacy sessions, to create a mood before teaching, to accompany an active learning activity, to add layers of meaning to the material at hand, or as just a spoonful of sugar. Start with the "LISTEN ONLINE" section of the Music Library’s website www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music.

USA.gov and Other Sources: Making Government Easy (and Fun!)
Jan Goldsmith and Kris Kasianovitz
Did you know that you and your students can easily access government information? Government information is available via the Library Catalog, Melvyl, WorldCat, Google and government portals like USA.gov and CA.gov. It can be used in almost every discipline. Government publications are authoritative primary and secondary sources, e.g. legislation, census, budgets, program reports, and agency magazines. At UCLA we are a depository library for U.S. federal documents, California state documents, and some local, foreign and international documents, namely the United Nations and European Union. We have agreements with these government entities to store and make accessible their publications; we also collect non-governmental organization materials as well. The CRIS government information librarians have put together a web site to help you and your users find, understand and use these materials: www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/referenc/govinfo/locating.htm. We are also available for reference referrals, research consultations, and instruction sessions.

Using Mona’s Smile: How to Integrate Digital Images into Information Literacy Sessions
Robert Gore
Digital images come in many shapes sizes and formats. They can be used to spice up information literacy sessions in both educational and entertaining ways. Teaching students about different ways of accessing digital images can also be used as a jumping off point for discussing issues related to copyright and using digital images for educational purposes. The presentation provided an overview of different types of digital formats and presented attendees with some ideas to help them think about adding digital images to their information literacy sessions. Some examples seen in the presentation can be found here: www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/ILP/ilp.htm.

Incorporating the Use of ICPSR into Information Literacy Sessions
Libbie Stephenson
The use of statistical information in research is essential in nearly every discipline. This part of the session showed how librarians can incorporate a statistical element into their information literacy outreach. Tools for teaching students about research data have been developed at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR - www.icpsr.umich.edu). Exploring Research Data through Literature (ERDL) provides assignments, exercises and problem sets for using the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature. ERDL can be used to teach students how to find articles and other publications, to show them how to evaluate graphical displays of statistical tabulations, and to build students’ skills in social science research methods. Attendees received a hands-on demonstration and had a chance to complete a part of the exercises.

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