The Kids are Alright: How School and Academic Librarians Can Work Together to Promote Information Literacy
1. Summer Camp for School Librarians
8 July 2008
The Kids are Alright
How School and Academic
Librarians Can Work Together to
Advance Information Literacy
2. A little bit about us…
Debbie Myers
InstructionalServices Coordinator & Librarian,
Staley Library, Millikin University
dmmyers@millikin.edu
Joe Hardenbrook
Educational Technology Coordinator & Librarian,
Staley Library, Millikin University
jhardenbrook@millikin.edu
Dr. Carmella Braniger
Director of Critical Writing, Reading and Research
& Assistant Professor of English, Millikin
University
cbraniger@millikin.edu
3. Why are we here?
Collaboration is
Library users become great for libraries!
lifelong learners.
The importance of
information literacy
5. Why is this important?
1900: 4% of 18-year olds attended college
2004: 67% of 18-year olds go to college or post-
h.s. training
Only 63% of students enrolled in a 4-yr. college
complete a bachelor’s degree within 6 years
Up to 25% of students who leave college do so
during or immediately after the first-year
41% of freshmen report successfully meeting the
academic demands from high school to college
50% of college professors report being
“satisfied” by the academic quality of their
students
Sources: The Role of the Library in the First College Year (2007), Your First College Year Survey
(2005), American College Teacher survey (2005), U.S. Dept. of Labor (2005)
6. Information Literacy & Research
American Association of School Librarians – S
st Century Learner
Association of College and Research Libraries
7. Group Time!
Questions to think about…
What sort of contact do you
have with students?
What % of your students go
directly to college?
Which of the skills from
AASL or ACRL do you find
most important for h.s.
students?
9. College Prep
Tips for preparing for
college
What is college-level
research?
What are the most
important skills for
college-level research?
How to build on what is
learned in high school?
11. Information Literacy Pre-Test
Completed by first-year students
15 questions
Covers four areas
Library Resources
Information Retrieval
Evaluation of Information
Plagiarism/Citing Sources
12. Information Literacy Pre-Test
90
80 82
80 77
70 71 68
66 66 66
60
50
Pre-Test
40 Post-Test
30
20
10
0 Library Info Retrieval Evaluation of Plagiarism,
Resources Info Citing Sources
Pre-Test (Moodle)
13. Survival Skills
Library Survival Skills Students Should
Know before Going to College (Handout)
14. Staley Library @ Millikin Univ.
Class Fieldtrips
Outreach program: Have a librarian come
to you!
Popular Resources
Web site: http://www.millikin.edu/staley
Millikin Information Literacy Tutorial:
http://www.millikin.edu/staley/milt_in150/in150_milt.html
15. Sharing Time!
What do you do? Lesson plans, activities,
websites, assessments, etc…
Transitioning to College (Kent State U.):
http://www.transitioning2college.org/
Questions?
Hungry?