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June 16 - 17, 2008 ,
8:00 a.m. (M) - 1:00 p.m. (Tu)
Chicago, IL
A conference for librarians, faculty members, instructional technologists, and administrators from participating colleges who are interested in learning about tools that colleges and universities can use to assess their students’ information literacy and fluency and develop programs that effectively address students’ needs and capabilities. (6 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008)
What do undergraduate students know about how to find, evaluate, and use information in today’s increasingly digital environment? Is it what they should know? If not, how can librarians, faculty members, and technologists work together to improve the situation?
Liberal arts institutions, like other sectors of higher education, have a compelling interest in understanding how matriculating students have prepared for college-level study and research. They also have an interest in ensuring that students’ experiences on campus, both in and beyond the classroom, build upon past preparation or—if it is inadequate—remedy it. The current ubiquity of networked digital information resources and tools has made assessing students’ ability to use information both more complex and more important.
At this conference, librarians, instructional technologists, and faculty members will learn about and reflect on the findings emerging from a variety of initiatives since 2000, when the American Library Association established information literacy competency standards for higher education. Since then, a number of tools have been developed for colleges and universities to use to assess their students’ information literacy and fluency and develop programs that effectively address students’ needs and capabilities. Participants will explore four different projects and approaches:
Participants will leave the conference with a more comprehensive understanding of the comparative features, limitations, and possibilities afforded campuses by testing instruments currently available. This understanding will enable participants to participate in or lead processes for selecting an instrument appropriate to needs on their own campuses. They will also learn what campuses that have used such instruments are discovering and how they are using the results of assessment to improve their information literacy/fluency programs. In considering community needs together, participants will become more fully informed about the potential of working collaboratively with other participating campuses to conduct assessment of information literacy and fluency and about the types of programs, services, and approaches that could enable realization of that potential.
Institutions may nominate teams of two. Recommended composition is a librarian and a faculty member. Other possible team compositions include librarian and administrator, librarian and instructional technologist, or two librarians.
Interested faculty and staff from participating colleges: To participate in this conference, please contact your campus liaison. Your campus liaison will select your campus's nominees and send their names to NITLE. Nominees will receive further information from NITLE about the registration process.
For more information about this conference, please contact Nancy Millichap.
For logistical questions, please contact Terri Coahran.
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