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Focusing on Assignments Cornell College
Colorado College A Collaborative Information
Literacy Project
BACKGROUND
FEATURES OF THE GUIDE
DISSEMINATION
Colorado College and Cornell College share a
similar academic calendar and were interested in
finding a collaborative project. Funded by
grant from Associated Colleges of the
Midwest/Mellon Foundation, librarians, faculty
and writing professionals from both colleges met
during the summer of 2004.

• Workshops on each campus
• Presentations to professional organizations
• Guides shared with other institutions
• Webpage
• CD with contents of notebook
• Guides distributed to Depts. Administrators on
  each campus

• Brief theoretical discussions of the research
  process
• Lists of assessment tools and sample rubrics
• Assignments
• Calendars visually document the staging and
  sequencing of assignments
• Templates with all desired features make it easy
  to solicit additional assignments

PURPOSE
Primary Purpose Create a collaborative guide to
assist faculty and librarians in designing
short-tem research assignments incorporating
information literacy. Secondary Purpose
Collaborate with a similar college

• Sample assignments are coded
• By type of assignment By info lit feature
• Annotated bibliography Sequencing
• Article critique Staging
• Research paper Research and writing
• Field experience Critical thinking
• Oral presentation Integrating and
  synthesizing
• Group project Discipline specific
• Mock conference Discourages plagiarism
• Power point seminar

TIMELINE
HIGHS LOWS OF COLLABORATION

• June 2004 Cornell College - 3 days
• Participants brought research assignments to
  analyze
• Discussions explored theoretical work of
  information literacy and college student research
• August 2004 Colorado College - 1 ½ days
• Participants chose the best assignments
  representatives of various disciplines and types
  of research
• Decided format of guide, delegated work.

Highs New ideas generated
Made colleague
connections Project had practical
outcomes Campus visits were informative Lows Diff
erent work styles Different campus
cultures Downtime between meetings Scheduling
meetings in the summer with faculty