Winter/Spring 2004
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Sixty-one CIC member institutions have been selected to participate in three regional workshops on the Transformation of the College Library. The first workshop was held in San Francisco, CA, on February 26-28. Additional workshops will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, April 15-17; and Minneapolis, MN, June 3-5. “We live in an ‘information society’ and as students complete their studies and take up their life’s work, they must be able to find useful information and make discriminating judgments about it amid the clatter of information that now surrounds us all,” said CIC senior advisor Scott Bennett, university librarian emeritus of Yale University, who leads the project with Rita Gulstad, dean of extended studies and learning resources and director of computing at Central Methodist College (MO) and Tom Kirk, library director and coordinator of information services, Earlham College (IN). The Library Workshops initiative was launched with a pilot workshop in 2002 in cooperation with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). More than 200 institutions applied to this new series of workshops, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Association of College & Research Libraries. Among the topics and speakers to address the workshops (each location features a slightly different set of speakers): Teaching and learning in an information-rich environment in collaboration with librarians and information technology staff. Presenters: Brenda Marshall, professor of theatre/speech communication and Susan Whyte, library director, Linfield College (OR); Jon Stauff, professor of history and James O’Gorman, reference librarian, St. Ambrose University (IA); and Terrence Lindell, professor of history and Randall Schroeder, information literacy librarian, Wartburg College (IA). Supporting information literacy through institutional policies and procedures. Presenters: Michael Bell, vice president for academic affairs, Elmhurst College (IL) and Sister Patricia Matthews, vice president for academic affairs, Marywood University (PA); Sister M. Carroll Isselmann, vice president for academic affairs, Immaculata University (PA) and Ferol Menzel, vice president for academic affairs and dean, Wartburg College (IA); and William L. Sipple, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Bay Path College (MA). The library as a physical space for learning: designing spaces for information literacy activities. Presenters: Nancy Magnuson, college librarian, Goucher College (MD) and Joseph Rizzo, Hillier Group, Washington, DC; Richard Holmgren, associate dean, Allegheny College (PA) and Tom Celli, Celli-Flynn Brennan Turkall, Architects and Planners (Pittsburgh, PA); and Noreen Carrocci, vice president for academic affairs, Spring Hill College (AL) and Carole Wedge, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (Boston, MA). Key considerations in advancing an information literacy program. Presenter: Susan Perry, senior advisor, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and director of programs, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. Introduction to effecting change on campus. Presenters: Richard Detweiler, interim president, Council on Library and Information Resources; Susanne Woods, provost, Wheaton College (MA). Developing and budgeting library collections for an information-rich teaching environment. Presenter: Thomas Kirk, library director and coordinator of information services, Earlham College (IN). Measuring success. Presenter: Jeanne H. Hubelbank, evaluation consultant (Sudbury, MA).
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