I just realized that the following message, which I thought I sent to
ARLIS-L, actually just went to Sandra. So for those of you who wondered
"what earlier message" when I sent my bibliography--here's the earlier
message in question.
At San Jose State (a comprehensive university that offers a Master's
but not a Ph.D.) library instruction is theoretically integrated in
courses at 3 levels
(see http://library.sjsu.edu/staff/ecrowe/arlis/backg.htm#BI for the
actual
statements--the one for graduate classes is actually academic senate
policy). In getting such initiatives passed, it certainly helps if
librarians have
faculty status. It took a lot of hard work on our part, (especially our
BI
Coordinator, Judy Reynolds) but it's part of the landscape now.
I too spent many years beating my head against the wall to get faculty
to
schedule library presentations, even when they were theoretically
required.
However, I've had much more success in recent years--partly because the
resistant old
guard retired, and partly because the entire California State University
system has
really been pushing greater information competence, more writing, and
more writing
based on library research. As a matter of fact, CSU is funding
information
competence projects on individual campuses, and I'm involved in one for
art history (see
http://library.sjsu.edu/staff/ecrowe/infocomp_art.htm) for the
proposal, which was put together by the art history prof, not me. We're
a tad behind
schedule, but would probably have quite a bit to share at ARLIS in
Baltimore. Today I'm pilot testing a diagnostic test I just devised on a
grad seminar, to see just how
many of the skills they possess that one would expect a beginning grad
student to
have. Many of the faculty who are now teaching both the junior-level
writing course
and the grad seminars are people who've been part of a previous infocomp
project we
did a few years ago, and are well aware of their student's deficiencies,
and very
sympathetic to the need for training in library skills by librarians. It
took 30
years to get here, but a lot of things are coming together that are
increasing my BI
workload a great deal!
Edith Crowe
San Jose State University
Sandra Rothenberg wrote:
> Hello All,
> I was hoping that some of you in academic libraries might have
some thoughts
> on this question. Do you actively do library instruction sections
for students
> doing research in master's and Ph.D. level courses? Is there a
resistance from
> the professors for bringing their upper level students in because
"Their students
> already know how to do research" or "There is not time for this in
the course
> schedule." If so, is their any ways in which you counter this
thinking to get
> these user groups in for instruction. Any thoughts on the subject?
> Thank you in advance,
> Sandra Rothenberg
> ARLIS/NE
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