Handbook for Community College Librarians

Handbook for Community College Librarians
Author: Michael A. Crumpton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610693469

An in-depth understanding of the complexities, dynamics, and emerging trends in community college libraries today. Handbook for Community College Librarians covers all aspects of librarianship that apply to community colleges in a one-stop reference book. It provides information that enables the librarian to become more successful in the community college environment and reflects on its unique qualities, identifying the specific skills required and the differences from other library settings. The authors address instructional design and highlight the distinctions in the types of information literacy appropriate to the specialized curriculum and certification needs of a community college. Besides being an outstanding professional development tool, this handbook will also be useful to library and information science students studying service in community college libraries as a career option.

Information Literacy Assessment

Information Literacy Assessment
Author: Teresa Y. Neely
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780838909140

Do they "get it"? Are students mastering information literacy? Framing ACRL standards as benchmarks, this work provides a toolbox of assessment strategies to demonstrate students' learning.

Information Literacy Instruction

Information Literacy Instruction
Author: Esther S. Grassian
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Incorporated
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The second edition of this guide for librarians who need to implement informational literacy programs for diverse learners has been revised to include new practices and technologies in the 21st century. Grassian served as a library administrator at theUCLA College Library, and she has teamed with fellow UCLA librarian Kaplowitz to deliver a plan that focuses on goal setting, mode selection, design, copyright and assessment of these programs. A CD-ROM is included that contains sample mission statements, tables that evaluate assessment tools, practice handouts and links to interactive Web pages. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Scientific Teaching

Scientific Teaching
Author: Jo Handelsman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781429201889

Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.

Academic Literacy

Academic Literacy
Author: Albert Weideman
Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Academic writing
ISBN: 9780627026904

Academic literacy - prepare to learn is different from traditional courses in that it is task-based: it requires of language learners who are developing their academic literacy to do authentic academic tasks and to solve real academic problems.