Teaching for Self-Directed Learners: Managing the A&I Database Transitions

CDL-sponsored instruction workshop aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources. Workshop leaders are Deb Gilchrist, Director of Library/Media Services, Pierce College, a current ALA Councilor and co-recipient in 1997 of the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation in Instruction Award, and Susan Barnes Whyte, library director at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. In 1995 she was presented the Edith P. Green Distinguished Professor award for her teaching at Linfield. Both are faculty of the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy. Learn more about the speakers here: http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ifaculty.html.

Workshop Schedule:
Agenda [RTF]
January 31 and February 1, 2002 - Preservation Park in Oakland
February 4 and 5, 2002 - UC Irvine campus
Time: Registration and coffee at 8:30 AM; workshop 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Continental breakfast, breaks and lunch included

• Attendees [RTF]

Workshop Activities Results:

• Brainstorming on Integrating Active Learning Techniques into the Classroom [RTF]
• What's Broken about the 50-Minute Session [RTF]
• Classroom Choreography Examples [RTF]

Resources mentioned by the instructors:

• Weber State University: Library and Internet Skills Tutorials
  http://library.weber.edu/libinstruct/list.htm
• Assessment in Library & Information Literacy Instruction
  http://www2.library.unr.edu/ragains/
• Books:
  
  • Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920: Free Press, 1979.
  • Light, Richard J. Evaluation Findings That Surprise. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.
  • Mentkowski, Marcia. Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.

Administrative Information

• Ginn House (660 13th Street) Preservation Park, Oakland
• Bren Center, Stewart Room, UCI