Volume 22, Number 2 June 2003
PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
Inaugural Column
PAT ENSOR
GUEST EDITORIAL
The Changing Role of Libraries in Instructional Support
SUSAN LO
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Village of ISS: Providing Library-Based Instructional
Support
HOWARD CARTER AND KEVIN RUNDBLAD
An Organizational Model for Instructional Support at
a Community College
JACQUELINE MUNDELL, CORYL CELENE-MARTEL, AND TOM BRAZIUNAS
Building a New Infrastructure for Digital Media: Northwestern
University Library
M. CLAIRE STEWART AND H. FRANK CERVONE
Collaborative Digitization Projects: Opportunities to Enhance
Teaching and Learning
ADRIENE LIM
COMMUNICATIONS
Arts Instruction in the Age of Technology: Providing
Library Services to Support Studio and Survey Faculty Who Use Technology
for Instruction
BELLA KARR GERLICH AND AMY PERRIER
Improving Art History Education: Library and Faculty
Partnerships in Instructional Technology Development
TARA L. DIRST
Developing the Online Learning Environment: The Pros
and Cons of Using WebCT for Library Instruction
ELIZABETH W. KRAEMER
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PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
Inaugural Column
PAT ENSOR
Editor's Note: The
full text of this column is available.
EDITORIAL
Guest Editorial: The Changing Role of Libraries in Instructional
Support
SUSAN LO
Editor's Note: The
full text of this editorial is available.
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Village of ISS: Providing Library-Based Instructional
Support
HOWARD CARTER AND KEVIN RUNDBLAD
Institutions want courses that incorporate the latest instructional technology.
Instructors cannot take advantage of new technology if they are unfamiliar
with the tools and have limited experience with online learning pedagogies.
It has been said that it takes a village to build a curriculum in the information
age. Morris Library’s Instructional Support Services (ISS) is such
a village. ISS provides instructors with technical advice and access to
current hardware, software, and multimedia techniques to meet their teaching
objectives. Offering instructional designers, Web programmers, and video
and graphics professionals, ISS is a one-stop shop for instructors who want
to add technology to their courses.
Editor's Note: The
full text of this article is available.
Howard Carter (hcarter@lib.siu.edu) is Manager, Instructional Support
Services and Web Coordinator at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Kevin Rundblad (krundbla@lib.siu.edu) is Instructional Development Librarian
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
An Organizational Model for Instructional Support
at a Community College
JACQUELINE MUNDELL, CORYL CELENE-MARTEL, AND TOM BRAZIUNAS
The Instructional and Information Support Services (IISS) division at North
Seattle (Wash.) Community College brings together the college’s Library,
Media Services, and Distance Learning (DL) units, and the Teaching and Learning
Center to support instruction campus-wide under a dean with a required MLS.
With its active instructional focus, the Library is integral to the division.
IISS is also the administrative home of Interdisciplinary Studies. This
organizational model promotes interaction, collaboration, and innovation
among disparate units that have the same overall goal of fostering teaching
excellence and student success. A connection to Internet II and a campus
gigabit backbone make possible a variety of advanced technological options
to enhance instruction.
Editor's Note: The
full text of this article is available.
Jacqueline Mundell (jmundell@sccd.ctc.edu) is Dean of Instructional
and Information Support Services, Coryl Celene-Martel (ccelenem@sccd.ctc.edu)
is Assistant Manager/Instructional Technologist of the Teaching and Learning
Center, and Tom Braziunas (tbraziun@sccd.ctc.edu) is Director of Distance
Learning at North Seattle (Wash.) Community College.
Building a New Infrastructure for Digital Media:
Northwestern University Library
M. CLAIRE STEWART AND H. FRANK CERVONE
The Northwestern University Library has been a pioneer in text and media
digitization. From early efforts primarily focused on enhancing access to
reserve material to current projects involving vast quantities of streaming
media, in great part these projects have been the result of close collaboration
between the library and other units on campus, particularly Academic Technologies.
As the depth and breadth of digitization efforts have increased, so have
the technological and organizational issues. This article examines the history
of digitization efforts at Northwestern University as a context for exploring
the emerging issues most libraries face as digitization enters a new era.
Editor's Note: The
full text of this article is available.
M. Claire Stewart (claire-stewart@northwestern.edu) is Head of Digital
Media Services and H. Frank Cervone (f-cervone@northwestern.edu) is Assistant
University Librarian for Information Technology at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois.
Collaborative Digitization Projects: Opportunities to
Enhance Teaching and Learning
ADRIENE LIM
Many libraries assist faculty in the development of digital materials for
instruction, with services ranging from scanning documents for electronic
course reserves to providing digital production centers for faculty use.
But what types of services are best offered by librarians when the development
of instructional materials takes the form of formal, more complex digitization
projects? This article describes one such collaborative project, the Dorothea
June Grossbart Historic Costume Collection (HCC) at Wayne State University
(WSU), and examines how building this digital resource has offered new opportunities
for librarians to expand their partnerships with faculty and meet shared
educational goals.
Adriene Lim (ab7155@wayne.edu) is a Librarian and the Digital Library
Services Team Leader at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
COMMUNICATIONS
Arts Instruction in the Age of Technology: Providing
Library Services to Support Studio and Survey Faculty Who Use Technology
for Instruction
BELLA KARR GERLICH AND AMY PERRIER
Where students once came into higher learning equipped with pencils and
protractors, paintbrushes and easels, scores and record player, today’s
art student arrives armed with laptop, speakers, and wireless card. Just
as academic institutions must adapt and restructure instruction modules
around the twenty-first-century student, so must university libraries provide
new services to support studio and survey faculty as they change teaching
methodologies and pedagogies. At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, services
to support technology in education include digitization workstations, creating
and maintaining digital image collections, and implementing audio e-reserves.
Bella Karr Gerlich (bg2r@andrew.cmu.edu), Head, Arts and Special Collections,
and Amy Perrier (aperrier@andrew.
cmu.edu), Arts Resource Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries,
Pittsburgh.
Improving Art History Education: Library and Faculty
Partnerships in Instructional Technology Development
TARA L. DIRST
This article discusses the provenance of a partnership between the Digital
Projects Department (DPD) at Northern Illinois University (NIU) Libraries
and NIU’s Art History Department that seeks to improve art education
at NIU. Academic librarians and other library personnel have unique skills,
which along with providing traditional library services, should be utilized
to meet instructional and educational challenges. Since DPD has a history
of providing access to multimedia content via the Internet, it seemed natural
to partner with the art history department to create a tool for accessing
slides of artwork via the Web.
Editor's Note: The
full text of this article is available.
Tara L. Dirst (tdirst@niu.edu), Technology Coordinator, Digital Projects,
Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb.
Developing the Online Learning Environment: The Pros
and Cons of Using WebCT for Library Instruction
ELIZABETH W. KRAEMER
Rising enrollments at Oakland University (OU) have required librarians
to decrease instruction time with each basic writing class in order to preserve
contact with all sections. As a result, the faculty at Kresge Library developed
an online instruction module to familiarize students with library research.
Using WebCT course management software, the librarians are able to introduce
students to basic library skills so that in-class time can be used to teach
more advanced research techniques. This article focuses on the benefits
and drawbacks of using WebCT for such a library instruction program, and
the support provided to the instructors of the courses using the module.
Elizabeth W. Kraemer (kraemer@oakland.edu), is an Assistant Professor
at Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
BOOK REVIEW
Mastering the Language of Web Design
Eric A. Meyer. Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders, 2002.
Editor's note: The
full text of this review is available.
Vol 22 No 2 June 2003