Your Senior Is Our Freshman:

1. Your Senior Is Our Freshman: Academic Librarians Reaching Out to High Schools 2010 Ohio Educational Technology Conference

2. The Future—It’s Coming! What Should We Make It? How? • Connecting and working with school libraries is critical to the future of librarianship and education. Jim Rettig Former ALA president

3. Special Task Force on 12-13 Transition in Ohio • White page: Preparing 21st Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries.

4. Task Force Action Steps • Develop 21st Century Skills • Incorporate Research Experiences • Deliver Research Resources • Prepare Student Teachers • Partner with Groups Statewide • Enable Collaboration

5. Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE)www.ilile.org Three KSU Library programs: • Informed Transitions (High School Outreach) • Transitioning to College (Web site) • Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS)

6. High school seniors or college freshmen?

7. Informed Transitions www.library.kent.edu/highschool

8. Informed Transitions High school instructional classroom

9. How It Works • Open invitation (local). • 2 weeks notice. • Prefer groups of 25 or less. • Tie-in current assignment. • Add-on transition experiences. • Borrowing privileges available. • Collaborate with librarians and teachers. • Help them to collaborate. • Will provide assignment, if school doesn’t have one.

10. Information Literacy Instruction • Brief and focused to facilitate the practice of information literacy. • Broad points – Top 10 Things High School Students Should Know About Using College Libraries. • Tailored to high school assignment. • Work mainly on topic focus and accessing information.

11. Four Observations that Inform Instruction • High school students likely will not: • Have experiences in large libraries. • Recognize the library’s Web site as a starting place for research. • Be familiar with some terms and concepts such as scholarly authority, reserves, periodicals, etc. • Be aware of what college library services are already available to them as community members.

12. Academic Year Participating Schools Group Visits Number of Students Library Tours Instruction Sessions 2004-2005 8 17 507 17 14 2005-2006 10 19 547 19 16 2006-2007 8 17 453 13 10 2007-2008 8 13 389 13 10 2008-2009 9 18 371 12 15 Totals *18 84 2,267 74 65 5 yr avg 16.8 453 14.8 13 * Schools are counted only once over the five years. Participation Numbers

13. Students and Course Subjects • Seniors (60%) and juniors (40%). • Mostly advanced-placement, college-bound students. • About half are English classes working on literature research. • Another quarter are English, Government or Social Studies classes researching topics for argumentative papers.

14. Aurora High School • Visiting KSU since 2002-03 year • Juniors and Seniors • AP English and IB program students

15. Aurora High School Some Student Comments: “It was cool to go into a big college library and learn how to find books, be independent. I was surprised to find such a large amount of books on my topic.”   “I was impressed with the facility and felt comfortable with the online systems and the LC classification.”

16. Transitioning to College -- T2C www.transitioning2college.org

17. Five 3-5 Minute Videos • Welcome to Academic Libraries • Talking to Databases • Tips for Research Success • Getting Help When You Need It • College: What to Expect

18. T2C – Supporting Materials

19. Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS) www.trails-9.org

20. Think, Share, Pair Activity Reflecting on the programs and initiatives shared today, how might they work for your institution and what challenges might you anticipate?

21. Challenges: Assessment • Formative, classroom assessment occurs. • Summative assessment is the challenge. • Many issues conspire: time, student access, under 18 research subjects, tracking students across multiple institutions.

22. Challenges: Budgetary Constraints Limited budgets and access to transportation has had two affects: 1. Larger group sizes: access to computers, multiple instructors, more students to track. 2. Very small group sizes: devoting time and resources to just a few?

23. Challenges: Borrowing • Borrowing is a great option, but can create overhead for planning the visit. • Overdue and replacement rate same as undergraduate population. • Teacher borrowing is the most popular option. • Many (about half) decide against borrowing.

24. Challenges: Communication • Due to our differing work cultures, communication is challenging. • More than two collaborators creates additional obstacles. • Patience is key.

25. Insights & Action Points • We all have a lot in common. • Connect thru professional associations. • Information Literacy standards provide a framework for collaboration. • Nurture a K-16 / P-20 educational worldview.

26. Insights & Action Points • Identify and connect with existing programs (duel-credit, bridge programs, Upward Bound). • Develop list of your information literacy expectations for students (new and graduating). • Collaborate for Assessment. • Take a leadership role.

27. Questions Presentation slides available at: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~kburhann/kjb.htm Dennis Alexander dalexander@aurora-schools.org Ken Burhanna kburhann@kent.edu Tammy Voelker tvoelker@kent.edu