Gateway to the Standards

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Gateway to the Standards

• Integrating Information Literacy into COM2213
  Foundations of Comm
• Celita DeArmond
• Reference/Instruction Librarian UTSA Library
• cdearmond_at_utsa.edu

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UTSA Library Instruction Program a brief overview

• Primarily one-shot 50/75 min. presentations
• Faculty requested
• Tailored to fit specific student assignment
• Focused on online searching skills and search
  tool selection and access
• All levels, any subject area
• Partnership with Learning Communities
• 25 students linked together by 3 courses
• Online options for faculty Library 101 tutorial,
  TILT
• One instructional session offered

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How can I make a deeper impact? COM2213
Foundations of Comm

• Gateway to upper level comm degree coursework
• Unique program at UTSA designed to guide 2nd year
  students into specific degree track
• Foundational skills such as research, speech
  analysis and preparation, use of PowerPoint
• Fundamental concepts in speech comm, technical
  comm, electronic media, public relations
• Semester long project broken into sections
  research question and search plan, annotated
  bibliography, literature review
• Program expansion in four years from 1 ? 4
  sections 25 ? 45 students each (capped)

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Enter the Standardsinformation literacy
component
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We (librarians) Cant Do It Alone!faculty
collaboration
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What about assessment?aka the sticky wicket
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Where To Go From Here?it all depends
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Web Sites Suggested Readings

• UTSA Library / COM2213 Foundations of
  Communication
• http//www.lib.utsa.edu/Instruction/com2213/
• Includes links to empty outlines, homework, and
  more!
• Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
• http//www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticl
  es/31231.html
• By Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes
• EduCom Review Volume 31, Number 2, March/April
  1996
• The Collaborative Imperative Librarians and
  Faculty Working Together in the Information
  Universe
• By Dane Ward and Dick Raspa, ed.
• ALA/ACRL, 2000
• Reference Services Review
• Volume 29 Number 2, 2001
• whole issue dedicated to faculty-librarian
  partnerships