Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

; and assisted student teams per request as they progressed with their projects. The courseprofessor assigned reading on information literacy; conducted a class discussion on informationliteracy in the broader context of intentional learning and reflective judgment; developed ahomework assignment designed to practice information retrieval and evaluation skills; reviewedthese skills on a midterm exam; reinforced information literacy skills on assignments includingproblem sets and ethics case analyses; and incorporated information literacy throughout the LCAproject and specifically through an LCA annotated bibliography assignment.Assessment data from student work as well as course surveys and focus groups provide feedbackon student learning and

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College; Mary Moriarty, Smith College; Linda Jones, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

assessmentplan.ABET outcomes criteria do not explicitly mention information literacy, but it is apparent thatstudents cannot achieve many of the ABET outcomes without developing information literacyskills. Still, it is not common for these skills to be assessed as part of ABET outcomesassessment. Several mappings of information literacy criteria to ABET outcomes are available inprevious work, connecting with several outcomes including lifelong learning, communication,and ethics. Because each institution develops their own set of outcomes, we did not simply adoptanother’s mapping but developed our own based on our understandings of our outcomes criteria.This paper describes our process in developing our information literacy criteria integrated withABET

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

,campus publications, athletics, community service, etc).9 Its five major goals for students arethat they learn to access, understand, and evaluate information, use it ethically, and create newmaterial (papers, presentations, or other products) based on that information. While theuniversity program started in the spring of 2008, progress toward its goals was already underwayseveral years before within the eight-semester engineering design course sequence.The engineering science design curriculumThe Engineering Science program at Trinity University requires a minimum of 129 hoursconsisting of a 51-semester-hour engineering core, 33 hours in math and science, 33 hours in thecommon curriculum, and 12 hours of elective, leading to a Bachelor of

Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

services currently offered. After completing the list ofservices it became clear that quality resources, expert assistance in the minutiae of everythingfrom patents and technical reports to ethics and interviewing skills, assistance with designingassignments, study space, and much more were the primary benefits to patrons. This list helpeddetermine potential marketing messages.After the completion of the first list, a detailed retrospective analysis of activity and resourcemarketing projects of the past was compiled. This analysis showed that the majority of marketingactivities were carried out within the library building itself. In addition to this, library posters