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The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

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Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis of Assessing Student Information Literacy Skills: The Power of Librarian-Faculty Collaborations

Librarians at the Moore Library of Rider University conducted a focus group with 12 undergraduate students during the summer of 2011 and modified an online test
used for determining students’ information literacy (IL) skills in required composition…

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Faculty-Librarian Collaboration in Improving Information Literacy Skills of Educational Opportunity Program

Purpose – This study aims to examine the instruction of basic information literacy (IL) skills taught
to the socio-economically disadvantaged students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at
Rider University in summer 2011. The study set…

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What Five Minutes in the Classroom Can Do to Uncover the Basic Information Literacy Skills of Your College Students A Multiyear Assessment Study

Objective – Librarians at Rider University attempted to discern the basic information literacy (IL) skills of students over a two year period (2009-2011). This study aims to
explore the impact of one-session information literacy instruction on…

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Four Pedagogical Approaches in Helping Students Learn Information Literacy Skills

Rider University librarians heightened their collaboration with classroom faculty to teach students in core writing classes information literacy (IL) skills during IL instruction (ILI) sessions. This quasi-experimental study assessed four pedagogical…

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2016 CALA/GMA Professional Development

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On March 19th, GMA members from three states (Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania) and District of Columbia met at the beautiful Fenwick Library of George Mason University and had a great time to network and engage in scholarly exchanges.  Topics…

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CALA Newsletter, No. 115, Fall 2016

CALA Newsletter Fall 2016
The CALA Newsletter is the official publication of the Chinese American Librarians Association, and it disseminates information about Chinese American Librarianship and the activities of the association. Some of the highlights in the 2016 Spring…

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Telling Chinese American Librarians' Stories: Tze-Chung Li

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Dr. Tze-Chung Li was the premier Chinese American Librarian for his accomplishments. In his career, Dr. Li was the founder of the Chinese American Librarians' Association (CALA), the first Chinese scholar to be Dean of a library school, and founder…

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