Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
A Brief, Illustrative History
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Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
“You have to tell people
about this!”
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(Well, 1982…)
At University of Victoria:
• Required
• Part of first-year English
• Catalogue, indexes, more
• Self-paced
• Organized into modules
• “How-to” (text, images)
followed by activities
• Test administered by librarians
• Test requires use of tools,
resources
The Library Skills
Workbook
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
In the Beginning…
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Winner of the 1999 ACRL Innovation in
Instruction Award, because of its:
• Ties to information literacy
competencies
• Structure and design
• Effective use of graphics
• Strong evaluation component
• Development through usability testing
• Ease of use
• Clarity of language
• Adaptability to variety of instructional
settings (course-related instruction,
just-in-time research assistance)
• Marketing
Take a tour:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010607140306/dizzy.library.arizona.edu/rio/
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
RIO (U of Arizona)
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http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
And then came…
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 Winner of the 2000 ACRL Innovation in Instruction
Award, because it:
“incorporates many levels of cognitive and affective
objectives as well as critical thinking skills within the
framework of a truly interactive and personalized learning
environment.”
 Focuses on fundamental concepts and transferable skills
 Uses graphics, media, games and humour to reach its
target audience (traditional-aged undergraduates)
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
TILT: A Watershed Moment
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http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocyle.htm
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
Penn State University
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http://blip.tv/file/1453578/
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
PsycINFO (EbscoHost 2.0) – Using the Thesaurus
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Knowledge
Dimension
Factual
Knowledge
Conceptual
Knowledge
Procedural
Knowledge
Meta-cognitive
Knowledge
Remember
Cognitive Process Dimension*
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
*Other dimensions to
Bloom’s taxonomy:
• Affective
• Psychomotor
http://www.skagitwate
rshed.org/~donclark/hr
d/bloom.html
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
Kuhlthau & Bloom
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 Rooted in UFV tradition
 One piece of the equation – provide a foundation
 Integrative (instruction embedded into tasks and assessment)
 Concrete (try not to overwhelm); not just “how,” but “why”
 Casual tone, humour
 Authentic, real time
 Statistics report:
http://journals.ufv.ca/library/first_year/stats.php
 The technical details: PHP, MySQL on Linux server running
Apache web server
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
Online Library Assignment (OLA)
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 Rewrite the code, storing question data in a database
 Add a web-based admin interface to allow creation of
multiple versions with custom URLs
 Add a check for local proxy authentication
 Allow students to stop in the middle and restart where
they left off
 Allow students to send results to more than one
instructor
 Add item-level analysis to statistical report
 Release it as open source
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
What’s Next?
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 ANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing Project), http://ants.wetpaint.com/
 The Internet Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/
 LION (Library Information literacy Online Network) TV, http://liontv.blip.tv/
 PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online),
http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm
References
Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and
assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Longman.
Kuhlthau, C. C. (2007). Reflections on the development of the model of the Information Search
Process (ISP): Excerpts from the Lazerow Lecture, University of Kentucky, April 2, 2007.
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 33(5), 32-37.
Retrieved November 4, 2008, from http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-07/Kuhlthau.pdf
Colleen Bell, Information Literacy & Web Services Librarian | ALPS Meeting | December 5, 2008
Resources
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