Biology 14 Library Research: An Evolving Collaboration

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Regina Raboin, Reference Librarian
• Tisch Library, Tufts University
• ACRL Science and Technology Section
• Monday, June 28, 2004
• ALA 2004 Orlando, FL

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Biology 14 Library Research In the Beginning

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Biology 14 Library Research In the Beginning

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• What are the outcomes?
• Students learn information literacy skills
  through a self-paced, self-scheduled environment.
  
• Students work is graded, making it worth their
  effort and establishing this library research
  assignments importance.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• What are the outcomes?
• Information literacy skills are integrated into a
  traditional lab-based biology course.
• Biology teaching assistants and instructors are
  taught the importance of information literacy
  pedagogy.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• What are the outcomes?
• Tisch Librarys resources are better used.
• Further outreach and collaboration with the
  Biology Department.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Outreach and Collaboration
• Biology 14 was the foundation for The
  Biologist's Guide to Library Resources

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Outreach and Collaboration
• Have worked with 15/21 Biology faculty to teach
  information literacy skills and research
  resources to their classes.
• Steady increase in number of Biology course
  library sessions.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Outreach and Collaboration
• Assist Biology graduate students.
• Library web site is linked from the Biology
  department web site, as well as from a few of the
  professors laboratory sites.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Future Goals and Challenges
• Interactivity web-based quizzes/assignment BLOG
  technology Robo demos?
• Assignments are open-ended and designed to
  uncover students interestshow to change, yet
  maintain this important aspect.
• Continue to assess/evaluate, but bring the
  student survey to the web maybe make it
  mandatory?

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Future Goals and Challenges
• Integrate with Blackboard?
• Roving referencegood possibility.
• Investigate integration with Triple IIIs
  Millennium, Metafind and Web Bridge.

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
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• Biology 14 Library Research
• http//ase.tufts.edu/biology/bio14v2/
• Orians, Colin and Sabol, Laurie. Using the Web to
  Teach Library Research Skills in Introductory
  Biology A Collaboration Between Faculty and
  Librarians. Issues in Science and Technology
  Librarianship, Summer 1999.
• http//www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-summer/article
  2.html

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Biology 14 Library Research An Evolving
Collaboration

• Thank you
• Associate Prof. Colin Orians, Biology Department,
  Tufts University
• Laurie Sabol, Coordinator of Instruction and
  Faculty Outreach, Tisch Library, Tufts University
• Stephanie St. Laurence, Reference Publicity
  Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University

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