The Consultant
Cole Library and The Center for Teaching and Learning
Fall, 2010
Volume 4, Issue 1
New Space in the Library
Teaching
With
Entertaining
Educational
Technology
New group study space has been
created on the fourth floor bridge by
moving the current periodicals to fallow
space on the third floor. A large whiteboard enhances the collaborative
possibilities, and a smaller white board
is available on the third floor. New
books are now on the innermost-facing
shelves of the current periodical ranges,
and the Teaching and Learning collection is now housed on the shelving
outside of conference room 310.
We hope that the new arrangement of
materials highlights those resources
and stimulates increased use.
FYS Student Showcase
Because we are so excited by the wonderful work your students are doing this
year in your FYS courses, we would like to offer an opportunity for FYS professors
to submit top student work to an online showcase. Cole Library and the Center
for Teaching and Learning will publish this work in a prominent place on our website.
You may submit up to three pieces of student work (e.g., papers, group projects,
websites, digitized projects, creative works, etc.). We will contact the students for
more information about their projects and let them know the details of having their
work showcased. Works that are showcased may be reprinted or posted subsequently with another publication. Please submit work to Jen Rouse by October 22
for publication in Block 3.
Check out the
newest gadget at
Cole Library—
Mimio! Mimio is a portable interactive
whiteboard system and will soon be
available for faculty use. The whiteboard capture tool, MimioInteractive,
records what you write on the whiteboard and allows you to save it to a
PowerPoint file. The wireless pad,
MimioPad, works with your classroom
computer to allow you and your
students to edit a document together
from anywhere in the room. To learn
more, contact Matt Zhorne.
Perhaps no place in any community is
so totally democratic as the town library.
The only entrance requirement is
interest.
- Lady Bird Johnson
What’s new in Cole Library?
The Teaching and Learning Collection
On the shelves outside of conference room 310 is a collection of books that address issues regarding teaching and learning. Here you will find books on advising first year students, intervention to facilitate student success, facilitating
collaboration, and understanding quiet students. Additional topics include assessment, writing rubrics, developing a
learning-centered syllabus, and fostering reflection. A few titles that might be particularly interesting include:

Academic Advising: New Insights for Teaching and Learning in the First Year
Teaching and Learning 378.194 Ac122 2007

Between Speaking and Silence: A Study of Quiet Students
Teaching and Learning 378.125 R245b 2009

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge
Teaching and Learning 371.395 B83c 1993 (This includes chapters on writing, peer tutoring, and instructional
technology, among its other intriguing topics.)
The Consultant
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Your library is your
portrait.
- Holbrook Jackson
Fall CAT Schedule
Conversations About Teaching
sessions offer an opportunity
for faculty to gather and discuss
topics related to the classroom.
Cornell colleagues will open
each conversation with comments, questions, or a brief
presentation and then invite
participants to join in.
Unlikely Partners: The Writing Studio and
The Quantitative Reasoning Studio
While the Writing Studio and the Quantitative Reasoning Studio may appear to offer
very different services, consultants from each studio often team up to help students
in Stats, Psychology, Sociology, Biology, or any other course where assignments
combine writing and data. By having a conference with both a writing consultant and
a quantitative reasoning consultant, students maximize their time and are able to see
how writing and computation are actually related.
Typically these joint conferences are performed by the professional consultants
during the day but students can take advantage of this service in the evenings by
making an appointment with peer consultants in both the Writing Studio and the
Quantitative Reasoning Studio. Please encourage your students to take advantage
of this opportunity!
New Cole Library Staff
Conversations take place on
the first Friday of the block at
11:30 in Cole 108.
Participants are encouraged to
bring a brown bag lunch.

Friday, October 1: An
Open Discussion with the
Dean on Student Learning at Cornell.
Facilitator: Joe Dieker,
Dean of College

Friday, October 29: Barrier Free: Course Design
and Learning Environment for All Students.
Facilitator:
Kate Fashimpaur,
Coordinator of Academic
Support and Advising

Friday, December 3:
The 411 on the FYS: First
Year Seminar Debriefing.
Facilitator: Gayle Luck,
Professor of Education and
Associate Dean of the
College
Roxy Running
Serials/ ILL Assistant
Hello! My name is Roxy and I received
my MLIS in May of this year. I first considered a library career while attending
Cornell and doing my work study in the
library. In August of 2008 I returned to
Cornell to do reference part-time while I
finished graduate school and never left.
In August of this year I began working
as the Serials and Interlibrary Loan Assistant and I’m enjoying being here in a
full-time capacity.
Office: 314 Library
Phone: (319) 895-4259
Fax: (319) 895-5936
rrunning@cornellcollege.edu
Ian Mason
Academic Technology Consultant
Prior to coming to Cornell, I worked for
John Deere Information Systems and the
University of Iowa’s Digital Library
Services. I also spent one year teaching
English in Wuhan, China and backpacking through Southeast Asia. I’m looking
forward to getting to know the students
and faculty at Cornell.
Office: 127 Library
Phone: (319) 895-4125
Fax: (319) 895-5936
imason@cornellcollege.edu
Welcome to the Team!