Teaching Information Technologies to Faculty at Salem State College

1. Teaching Information Technologies to Faculty at Salem State College Nancy Dennis Business Reference & Instruction Librarian Nancy George Electronic Resources Librarian September 15, 2006

2. Salem State Technology Initiatives for Faculty & Librarians • Future is Now (FIN) conference, May 2004 to date • Laptop Initiative, May 2004 to date • Council on Teaching & Learning (CLT), 1996 to date • Bureau of Faculty Research (BFR) workshops, 1982 to date

3. SSC Librarian Sessions at Future is Now (FIN) conferences • 2004 • “The Library’s Anticipated Role in Laptop Initiative” • 2005 • “The Library at Your Laptop” • “Using Laptops to Re-conceptualize Information Literacy Instruction in First Year Seminar” • 2006 • Introduction to the Library Home Page • Introduction to Library Databases

4. SSC Librarian Participationin Laptop Initiative • Nancy George, member of steering committee for Laptop Initiative • Nancy George – Laptop Fellow 2005-2006 • Nancy George – Coordinator of library segment of Laptop Bootcamp I, May 2005 • Nancy Dennis – Coordinator of library segment of Laptop Bootcamps II and III, January and June 2006

5. 2006 Laptop Web Page • Gems for SSC Faculty on the Salem State College Home Page http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/Directory_Laptop_Bootcamp.html

6. SSC Librarian Participation in Council on Teaching and Learning (CLT) Projects • 2000 grant and 2001 Pearls & Perils presentation “Leveling the Playing Field: Using a Female-Supportive Environment to Teach Information Technologies” (Nancy Dennis and Patricia Gozemba) • 2005 grant and 2006 Pearls & Perils presentation “Using Laptops to Re-conceptualize Information Literacy Instruction” (Nancy Dennis and Leslie Goldstein)

7. Additional Librarian Presentations at Pearls & Perils • 2006 Nancy George “Introduction to RefWorks” • 2005 Nancy Dennis and Leslie Goldstein “Learner-Centered Information Literacy” • 2005 Nancy George and Nancy Dennis “Transforming Library Instruction with Laptops”

8. Recent Bureau of Faculty Research Activities • 2006 “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet Faculty Workshops” Nancy Dennis and Anne Woodrum • 2005 “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet Faculty Workshops” Nancy Dennis and Earl Scharfenberger

9. BFR Workshop Web Pages • “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet” 2006 • http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/Finding_Scholarly_Information_Spring_2006.html

10. BFR 2005 Workshops • “Finding Scholarly Information on the Internet 2005” • http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_One.html • http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Two.html • http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Three.html • http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/dennis/BFR_Workshop_Part_Four.html

11. Factors Influencing Librarian Involvement in Campus-Wide Initiatives • New connections to faculty (FIN, Laptop) • Building on past relationships (CLT, BFR) • At request of Library Dean (Laptop, FIN, Pearls)

12. Factors Making Librarian Involvement More Feasible • Campus-wide network • Wireless network • Smart classrooms • Expansion of computer labs

13. Insights About Teaching Faculty • Faculty showed different levels of computer and searching expertise (example: BFR Summer 2006 sessions) • Faculty had different learning styles (example: BFR Summer 2006 sessions) • Faculty were very muchinterested in librarian “tools of the trade,” such as search strategies, advanced search features (BFR 2005/2006)

14. Insights About Teaching Faculty, cont’d. • Faculty in the BFR workshops and Laptop Bootcamps were very much interested in systems and utilities librarians already knew about: • Periodicals directory, WorldCat, Google, digital libraries, scholarly repositories, etc. • BFR workshop faculty participants saw the Internet as a viable scholarly resource. All one needed were keys to unlock materials. • BFR workshop faculty were open to thinking of Google Scholar as a scholarly resource for students. Some faculty were still skeptical of Wikipedia.