EDITOR’S NOTES (
Margit Misangyi Watts).
1. Reforming the Undergraduate Experience (Diane VanderPol, Jeanne M. Brown, Patricia Iannuzzi)
These authors look at five key initiatives in higher education and suggest that they all call for reform in undergraduate education, especially in light of the need for information-literate individuals.
2. Librarians as Agents of Change: Working with Curriculum Committees Using Change Agency Theory (Tiffini A. Travis)
Highlighting the fact that the library can play a key role in the reform of undergraduate education, the author describes one educational system's push for curricular reform.
3. Global Educational Goals, Technology, and Information Literacy in Higher Education (Loanne Snavely)
Information literacy is crucial to the development of skills for lifelong learning. This chapter addresses the new technologies and how the library can become central to undergraduate education.
4. Information Literacy and Its Relationship to Cognitive Development and Reflective Judgment (Rebecca Jackson)
The author considers the cognitive development of college students and maps it to the ACRL performance standards for information literacy.
5. Information Literacy and First-Year Students (William A. Orme)
Discussing the work of Bloom and Perry, the author looks at how we might better educate first-year students. He offers advice on incorporating information literacy into disciplinary teaching practice.
6. Effective Librarian and Discipline Faculty Collaboration Models for Integrating Information Literacy into the Fabric of an Academic Institution (Stephanie Sterling Brasley)
Collaboration is the key to integration of information literacy in mainstream undergraduate education. This chapter explores strategies and best practices that lead to the collaboration of librarians and faculty.
7. Dynamic Purposeful Learning in Information Literacy (Robert Kenedy, Vivienne Monty)
The authors describe a particular collaborative model that has evolved over many years. They discuss the benefits of collaborative teaching and how this enhances student learning.
8. College Student Engagement Surveys: Implications for Information Literacy (Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer)
Placing information literacy at the center of undergraduate reform means asking all of the right questions and having them show up on national surveys. This chapter describes efforts to include questions about information literacy as we learn about student outcomes and engagement.
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