Digital Libraries a la Carte: Choices for the Future

Friday, 26 August 2005

Module 5: Libraries and Teaching and Learning

8:30 hrs Registration, Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

8:45 hrs Welcome and Introduction (EZ 4)

Hans Geleijnse
Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, NL

9:00 hrs Libraries and Teaching and Learning: An Introduction (EZ 4)

  • broad sketch of relevant trends in the world of (digital) libraries, the world of (e) learning and (e) teaching
  • opportunities and challenges for librarians in performing one of their core tasks: the support of educational processes
  • conceptual work in this area
  • practical experiences reported in the literature
  • framework for today's topics
  • full abstract
Hans Roes
Project manager, Tilburg University, NL

10:00 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

10:30 hrs "Not the Filling of a Vessel, but the Lighting of a Fire": Enriching Student Learning by Cultivating Undergraduate Research Skills (EZ 4)

  • an overview and analysis of Information Literacy Standards in North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom
  • connections between IL standards and active student learning
  • ways to integrate IL standards into course and curricula design and thus foster an environment of meaningful, independent, and self-directed student learning
  • special topics: cultivating campus collaborations, effective marketing and "messaging," program assessment, and assessing student skills and learning
  • lessons learned from the UC Berkeley Library/Faculty Fellowship on Undergraduate Research
  • this presentation includes and interactive component (practical exercises and discussions)
  • full abstract
Pat Davitt Maughan
Project Manager, Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship on Undergraduate Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA

12:15 hrs Lunch (University restaurant Tilbury nr 3 - building H)

13:30 hrs Assessment: a Key Part of the Learning Experience (EZ 4 and break-out rooms)

  • assessment of learning
  • the different purposes of assessment: Diagnosis; Formative feedback; Summative judgment; and Course evaluation & quality audit
  • library initiatives in the area of assessing information literacy (e.g.
  • the issue of education for information literacy outside formal education (e.g. in public libraries and the workplace)
  • problems and opportunities
  • full abstract
Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies, UK

15:15 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

15:45 hrs Dangerous Discussions about Information Literacy: The Transition from Too Few/Little to Too Many/Much: Changing Roles, Alliances, and Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Research (EZ 4)

  • online courses
  • physical and virtual learning environments
  • collaboration group space
  • major Web-based course management platforms and tools
  • Low-Threshold Applications and Activities (LTAs)
  • information literacy
  • information resources, information services, and related elements of information literacy that transcend local and national boundaries
  • interactive exploration of relevant "Dangerous Discussions" and (Self?)Deceptions
  • full abstract
  • For full description and links to related resources that will be used in the session, see: http://www.tltgroup.org/InfoLit/Transition.htm.
Steve Gilbert
President, The TLT Group, USA

17:30 hrs Wrap-up and Review (EZ 4)

Hans Geleijnse
Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, NL

17:45 hrs End of Sessions

18:15 hrs Joint Dinner (University restaurant Tilbury nr 3 - building H)

19.45 hrs End of Programme

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Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
telephone +31-13-466 83 10, telefax +31-13-466 83 83, e-mail Ticer@uvt.nl,
Last updated 12 August 2005.