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Brian Mathews' book,Marketing the Academic Library: A Bold New Approach for Reaching Students is now available.
See book information at the ALA website.
Information Literacy Award
The WAAL Information Literacy Committee is pleased to announce the winning team of the 2009 Information Literacy Award, Susan Heffron and Amelia Osterud. Susan Heffron has been the Instructional Services Librarian at Carroll University since 2004, when she completed her MLIS from UW-Milwaukee. She attended the ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Program in 2005 and is responsible for designing and implementing the information literacy portion of the First Year Studies program at Carroll. Amelia Osterud has been the Access Services Librarian at Carroll University since 2006. She finished the joint MLIS/MA program at UW-Milwaukee in 2004. She is a member of the WILIUG steering committee, and oversees the website and ILS for the Carroll Library. Both Susan and Amelia presented Avoiding the “Librarian Nerd Loop” Engaging Students and Creating a User-Friendly Library Environment at WAAL in 2008. They are being honored for their work incorporating information literacy into Carroll College’s First Year Seminar program.
Information Literacy instruction was first introduced into Carroll’s First Year Seminar program in 2004, each FYS class came to the library three times to learn about library resources, basic research skills, and plagiarism prevention. In 2007, Susan and Amelia worked together to enhance this experience by incorporating a peer-to-peer learning element and interactive online activities spread over the course of the semester. Particularly innovative aspects of this project include using the course management software, BlackBoard, to administer, track and evaluate the online tutorials and quiz and utilizing library student assistants to lead orientation sessions before the start of the semester. Another remarkable feature of this program is the cross departmental collaboration involved in organizing the project, including faculty collaboration.
Congratulations, Susan Heffron and Amelia Osterud!
Conference Scholarships Available!
The WAAL Professional Development Committee makes scholarships available to undergraduate library assistants, library school graduate students and library support staff/paraprofessionals. The deadline to apply for these scholarships is March 9, 2009.
For more information, see theProfessional Development Committee pages.
Congratulations to Scholarship Recipients!
The following individuals have been awarded conference scholarships. Please extend words of welcome when you see them!
Undergraduates: Emily Alinder from Lawrence University and Amanda Schmidt from UW-Green Bay
Graduates: Jessica Giles from UW-Madison SLIS and and Jennifer Huffman from UW-Milwaukee SOIS
Paraprofessionals: Ingrid Iverson from UW-LaCrosse and Meg Rein from Carroll University
