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ACM Information Literacy Project Workshops and activities for faculty in the social sciences |
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Faculty in the social sciences at ACM colleges engaged in ongoing efforts through the Information Literacy Project. Social science faculty who met in summer 2002 at Lawrence met together subsequently and exchanged information on using various resources to enhance information literacy skills in their courses. |
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Workshop in August 2002 Social scientists from ACM colleges held an information literacy workshop on August 13-15, 2002 at Lawrence University. The workshop’s planning committee was chaired by Peter Peregrine (Anthropology, Lawrence), who worked with Kim Tunnicliff (Vice President, ACM) and Jennifer Wieland (Project Coordinator, ACM). The workshop attracted over 20 participants from 9 ACM institutions. Faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists were well represented. The broad purpose of the workshop was to address to challenges of finding, evaluating, managing, and using paper and electronic information sources in the context of the social sciences. Lawrence personnel Kathy Issacson, Library Systems Coordinator; Peter Gilbert, Director of Instructional Technology; and Gretchen Revie, Reference Librarian, addressed the issues of locating and evaluating information, while Alex Wirth-Cauchon, Associate Director of the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, directed the discussion sessions on managing and using information. Additional presentations were made by Robert Browning, Director of Public Affairs Video Archives at Purdue University; Susan Scott, the Head of Information Services at Denison University, and Carol Ember, Director of the Human Resource Area Files at Yale University. For follow-up projects, there are two working groups; an "Archive Group" and a "Tutorial Group." The Archive Group's tasks are to identify existing assignments among ACM faculty that teach information literacy in the context of social science. In the creation of this clearinghouse or assignment pool, it is anticipated they will consult ACM/MITC campus liaisons, campus and professional organizations, and information literacy experts. The Tutorial Group is charged with the tasks of discovering and adapting web-based tutorials and working on creating templates and instructions for their modification for disciplinary use. It is anticipated they will work closely with appropriate disciplines to create these base templates. The participants in both workshops will be communicating electronically to further organize their approach and to arrange dissemination workshops and other meetings. For additional information, contact ACM (312/263-5000). |
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