Information Literacy Award Winners

 

2003/04

Cristine Prucha, UW-La Crosse Information Literacy Librarian was the recipient of the first annual WAAL Information Literacy Award.Prucha's skills in collaborating with faculty to create problem-based learning assignments for sections of a freshman year seminar at UW-La Crosse and her work on developing "Recommendations Regarding the Integration of Information Literacy into the General Education Curriculum" for the La Crosse campus have garnered praise from the campus community. The problem-based learning instruction led students to look at complex issues from a variety of perspectives and sometimes challenged them to support viewpoints that were not necessarily their own.

2004/05

Abigail Loomis was the 2005 winner of the second annual WAAL Information Literacy Award. Abbie has a long tenure of service in library instruction and a deep commitment to the advancement of information literacy, not only on the UW-Madison campus, but also on a state and national level. Through her work on the WAAL Information Literacy committee from 1997-2001, Abbie helped plan and sponsor many programs covering different aspects of instruction. She also participated in developing the committee’s Best Practices which promote an exchange of instructional practices and ideas with librarians throughout the state. Abbie Loomis was also actively involved in writing the proposal to bring ACRL’s Immersion Program to Wisconsin and helped organize the 2001 Wisconsin Immersion Program that was held at Edgewood College that year. Abbie played a key role in helping to make information literacy a required component of the UW-Madison undergraduate curriculum via the CLUE online tutorial. CLUE and the library instruction classes are campus-wide endeavors that reach more than 4,000 students annually.

2005/06

The 2005/06 third annual Information Literacy Award was presented to members of the Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries Instruction team: Valerie Beech, Rosemary Del Toro, Julie O’Keeffe and Rose Trupiano! The focus of this year’s award was on a project that promotes information literacy, and the Marquette University team hit the mark with their innovative "Assessment Rubric Project: Partnering with Faculty and University Administrators in Support of Student Learning."The project involved the development of assessment rubrics to be used by faculty across campus in evaluating student research. Embedded into the rubric are information literacy criteria. What impressed the award committee about this project was its innovative approach to incorporating the ideals of information literacy into the curriculum throughout the campus. The library responded to a demonstrated need on its campus, and exhibited creativity, practicality and ingenuity in addressing a campus mandate in this manner. The project involved collaboration across campus, including the endorsement of administration.