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Teaching Information Technologies to Faculty at Salem State College

Nancy DennisBusiness Reference & Instruction Librarian

Nancy GeorgeElectronic Resources Librarian

September 15, 2006

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Salem State Technology Initiatives for Faculty & Librarians

Future is Now (FIN) conference, May 2004 to date

Laptop Initiative, May 2004 to date

Council on Teaching & Learning (CLT), 1996 to date

Bureau of Faculty Research (BFR) workshops, 1982 to date

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SSC Librarian Sessions at Future is Now (FIN) conferences

2004 “The Library’s Anticipated Role in Laptop Initiative”

2005 “The Library at Your Laptop” “Using Laptops to Re-conceptualize Information

Literacy Instruction in First Year Seminar”

2006 Introduction to the Library Home Page Introduction to Library Databases

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SSC Librarian Participationin Laptop Initiative

Nancy George, member of steering committee for Laptop Initiative

Nancy George – Laptop Fellow 2005-2006

Nancy George – Coordinator of library segment of Laptop Bootcamp I, May 2005

Nancy Dennis – Coordinator of library segment of Laptop Bootcamps II and III, January and June 2006

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2006 Laptop Web Page

Gems for SSC Faculty on the Salem State College Home Page

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/Directory_Laptop_Bootcamp.html

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SSC Librarian Participation in Council on Teaching and Learning (CLT) Projects

2000 grant and 2001 Pearls & Perils presentation “Leveling the Playing Field: Using a Female-Supportive Environment to Teach Information Technologies” (Nancy Dennis and Patricia Gozemba)

2005 grant and 2006 Pearls & Perils presentation“Using Laptops to Re-conceptualize Information Literacy Instruction”(Nancy Dennis and Leslie Goldstein)

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Additional Librarian Presentations at Pearls & Perils

2006 Nancy George “Introduction to RefWorks”

2005 Nancy Dennis and Leslie Goldstein “Learner-Centered Information Literacy”

2005 Nancy George and Nancy Dennis “Transforming Library Instruction with Laptops”

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Recent Bureau of Faculty Research Activities

2006 “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet Faculty Workshops”Nancy Dennis and Anne Woodrum

2005 “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet Faculty Workshops”Nancy Dennis and Earl Scharfenberger

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BFR Workshop Web Pages

“Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet” 2006

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/Finding_Scholarly_Information_Spring_2006.html

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BFR 2005 Workshops

“Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet 2005”

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_One.html

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Two.html

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Three.html

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Four.html

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Factors Influencing Librarian Involvement in Campus-Wide

Initiatives

New connections to faculty (FIN, Laptop)

Building on past relationships (CLT, BFR)

At request of Library Dean (Laptop, FIN, Pearls)

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Factors Making Librarian Involvement More Feasible

Campus-wide network

Wireless network

Smart classrooms

Expansion of computer labs

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Insights About Teaching Faculty

Faculty showed different levels of computer and searching expertise (example: BFR Summer 2006 sessions)

Faculty had different learning styles (example: BFR Summer 2006 sessions)

Faculty were very much interested in librarian “tools of the trade,” such as search strategies, advanced search features (BFR 2005/2006)

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Insights About Teaching Faculty, cont’d.

Faculty in the BFR workshops and Laptop Bootcamps were very much interested in systems and utilities librarians already knew about:

Periodicals directory, WorldCat, Google, digital libraries, scholarly repositories, etc.

BFR workshop faculty participants saw the Internet as a viable scholarly resource. All one needed were keys to unlock materials.

BFR workshop faculty were open to thinking of Google Scholar as a scholarly resource for students. Some faculty were still skeptical of Wikipedia.