the library tutorial
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The Library Tutorial. A Brief, Illustrative History. “You have to tell people about this!”. In the Beginning…. (Well, 1982…) At University of Victoria: Required Part of first-year English Catalogue, indexes, more Self-paced Organized into modules - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Library TutorialA Brief, Illustrative History
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“You have to tell people about this!”
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In the Beginning…(Well, 1982…)
At University of Victoria:• Required• Part of first-year English• Catalogue, indexes, more
• Self-paced• Organized into modules• “How-to” (text, images)
followed by activities• Test administered by librarians• Test requires use of tools,
resources
The Library SkillsWorkbook
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RIO (U of Arizona)Winner of the 1999 ACRL Innovation in Instruction Award, because of its:• Ties to information literacy
competencies• Structure and design• Effective use of graphics• Strong evaluation component• Development through usability testing• Ease of use• Clarity of language• Adaptability to variety of instructional
settings (course-related instruction, just-in-time research assistance)
• Marketing
Take a tour: http://web.archive.org/web/20010607140306/dizzy.library.arizona.edu/rio/
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And then came…
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
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TILT: A Watershed MomentWinner of the 2000 ACRL Innovation in Instruction
Award, because it:“incorporates many levels of cognitive and affective objectives as well as critical thinking skills within the framework of a truly interactive and personalized learning environment.”
Focuses on fundamental concepts and transferable skillsUses graphics, media, games and humour to reach its
target audience (traditional-aged undergraduates)
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Penn State Universityhttp://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocyle.htm
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PsycINFO (EbscoHost 2.0) – Using the Thesaurushttp://blip.tv/file/1453578/
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Kuhlthau & Bloom
Knowledge Dimension
Cognitive Process Dimension*Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create
Factual KnowledgeConceptual KnowledgeProcedural KnowledgeMeta-cognitive Knowledge
*Other dimensions to Bloom’s taxonomy:• Affective• Psychomotor
http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
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Online Library Assignment (OLA)Rooted in UFV traditionOne piece of the equation – provide a foundationIntegrative (instruction embedded into tasks and assessment)Concrete (try not to overwhelm); not just “how,” but “why”Casual tone, humourAuthentic, real timeStatistics report:
http://journals.ufv.ca/library/first_year/stats.phpThe technical details: PHP, MySQL on Linux server running
Apache web server
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What’s Next?Rewrite the code, storing question data in a databaseAdd a web-based admin interface to allow creation of
multiple versions with custom URLsAdd a check for local proxy authenticationAllow students to stop in the middle and restart where
they left offAllow students to send results to more than one
instructorAdd item-level analysis to statistical reportRelease it as open source
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ResourcesANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing Project), http://ants.wetpaint.com/The Internet Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/ LION (Library Information literacy Online Network) TV, http://liontv.blip.tv/PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online), http://
www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm
ReferencesAnderson, L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and
assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Longman.Kuhlthau, C. C. (2007). Reflections on the development of the model of the Information Search
Process (ISP): Excerpts from the Lazerow Lecture, University of Kentucky, April 2, 2007. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 33(5), 32-37. Retrieved November 4, 2008, from http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-07/Kuhlthau.pdf