Community Gardening: Librarian-Faculty Instruction Partnerships to Cultivate Scholars Across A Major

Community Gardening:Librarian-Faculty Instruction Partnerships

to Cultivate Scholars Across A Major

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#ACRL2015EnglishGarden


Julie Arensdorf Reference & Outreach LibrarianUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Heidi Pettitt Special Collections & Technical Services LibrarianLoras College

Erin VanLaningham Assoc. Professor of English, Dir. of Honors ProgramLoras College

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Prepping the Landscape• Research on embedded IL instruction

• Institutional support

• Outreach to faculty

(Bowler & Street, 2008; Cooke & Rosenthall, 2011; Wong & Cmor, 2011)

Information Literacy Learning Objectives

• Online tutorial

• First-year seminar

• First-year writing course

• Upper-level courses

Upper-level Learning ObjectivesENG 210 - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENG 275 - Bleak House in Context - January Term

ENG 342 - Victorian Novel

ENG 490 - Capstone Senior Course


• Discussion of how research differs by discipline within the context of course subject area • How to find controlled vocabulary for discipline/topic (database thesaurus, Wikipedia,

reference sources) • Revising searches based on results—analyzing and actively responding to results (e.g.

sorting search results, relevancy ranking) • Citation by discipline (briefly), and available citation tools, including related Research

Guides





ENG 275 - Bleak House in Context - January Term • Difference between primary and secondary sources, and how to find primary sources

within discipline • How to evaluate primary sources based on audience, accuracy, bias, credibility, date of

creation in relation to subject addressed, and relevance





ENG 342 - Victorian Novel • Difference between primary and secondary sources, and how to find primary sources

within discipline • How to evaluate primary sources based on audience, accuracy, bias, credibility, date of

creation in relation to subject addressed, and relevance • How to find different kinds of information (e.g. data, statistics, maps, primary

documents, government documents) in a particular discipline





ENG 490 - Capstone Senior Course • How to organize/plan research • Revising research topic based on information/materials found and own developing

understanding, acknowledging the evolving nature of the research process • How to find controlled vocabulary for discipline/topic (database thesaurus, Wikipedia,

reference sources)

English Major Course Sequence

• ENG 210 - Introductory Course

• ENG 275 - Bleak House January Term

• ENG 342 - Victorian Novel

• ENG 490 - Capstone Course

ENG 210

• Foundational course for majors

• Course learning outcomes:

• Learning how to find and use resources, most specifically related to information literacy and research…

• Assignments: 3 analysis papers

Included in the Syllabus

Communicating IL objectives to students

ENG 210

Essay #1

• Formatting citations, using evidence

Essay #2:

• Mapping scholarly conversations, citation management

• Database search strategies

Essay #3

• Using a theoretical lens to find articles

• Reading scholarly articles, annotated bibs, finding known sources

Information LiteracyInstruction Activities:

Reading Scholarly Articles

Which parts would you consider when establishing:

• Relevance

• Quality

• Understanding

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ENG 210 – Course Evals“I really liked how we did a lot of

stuff with Julie. It was really helpful

and so was the mapping. That

would have been useful for other

classes last semester! I liked how

everything was in steps.”

ENG 210 – Course Evals

felt that “Learning how to find and use

resources for answering questions or solving

problems” was “essential” to the course

88%

ENG 210 – Course Evals

thought that the class “encouraged students

to use multiple resources (e.g. data banks, library

holdings, outside experts) to improve understanding,”

and was a “strength to retain” in the course

94%

ENG 210 - Special Collections Session

• Exploring how format affects the way a text

is read/received

• Research prompt

• Feedback

ENG 210 - Responses

Instead of citing a website about books in the 1500s, you could cite an actual book from the 1500s instead. They could be great primary sources and they offer a new and credible source of research”

“ I think these books offer unique avenues because they offer a different type of source than we are used to.

ENG 210 - Responses“I loved just holding the books and imagining myself in the time period of the original owner,and picturing whatmy experiencewith that bookwould havebeen like.”

ENG 210 - Responses“Being able to see them up close was not only an educational experience (seeing the different publishing, grammatical and syntax styles) but it was also simply fun!“

ENG 275 Bleak House in Context

• 3-week, immersive class

• Students creating content

ENG 275 - Bleak House in Context

ENG 275 – Bleak House in Context

Best Teaching Practices Conference, April 2013:

“Adventures in the Rare Books Room: Charles Dickens’ Bleak House In Serial”

• Using primary and secondary sources

• Response paper

• Research paper using primary

& secondary sources

ENG 342 Victorian Novels

ENG 342 – Victorian Novels

Research project topics:

• Harper’s: Fashion and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford

• Household Words: Opium Use and

Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone

• Newgate Calendar: Crime within Families

and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Your TurnCome up with a research topic

based on your handout and

tweet it along with the tag:


Course Objective: • Revise & expand previously written essay

Library Instruction: • Mapping the scholarly conversation

• Annotated bibliographies

• After graduation

• Future: Literary influences, special collections

ENG 490 Senior Capstone

Course Objective: • Revise & expand

previously written essay

ENG 490 Senior Capstone

Sustainability

• Learning objectives

• Documentation

• Mini-lessons

• Built-in to syllabus

Lessons Learned

• Prep the landscape

• Keep the big picture in mind

• Scaffold skills

• Build on success

• Pick the usual suspects

32Jane Loudon (1807-1858). http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/7448 Wikimedia Commons.

Ehret magnolia. National Museum Wales on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2217992183/

Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies) from Flora Londinensis (1777-1787) published by William Curtis. Hand-coloured engraving: 46cm x 31.5cm. National Museum Wales on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2218785488/

Tulipa gesneriana from Temple of Flora 1799 by Robert Thornton. Hand-coloured engraving: 57cm x 46cm. National Museum Wales on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2218785408/

"Syzygium aromaticum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-030" by Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syzygium_aromaticum_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-030.jpg Wikimedia Commons.

Acknowledgements

The aesthetics of this presentation were borrowed heavily from the American Players Theatre Book of Summer 2015,

created by Planet Propaganda in Madison, WI. http://planetpropaganda.com/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/7448

https://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2217992183/



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syzygium_aromaticum_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-030.jpg

http://planetpropaganda.com/

Recommended ReadingBowler, M. & Street, K. (2008). Investigating the efficacy of embedment:

Experiments in information literacy integration. Reference Services Review, 36(4), 438-449.

Brooman-Jones, S. Cunningham, G. & Hanna, L. (2011). Journal of Academic Language & Learning, 5(2), A1-A13.

Cooke, R. & Rosenthal, D. (2011). Students use more books after library instruction: An analysis of undergraduate paper citations. College & Research Libraries, 72(4), 332-343.

Kesselman, M. A. & Watstein, S. B. (2009). Creating opportunities: Embedded librarians. Journal of Library Administration, 49(3), 383-400.

Wong, S. H. R. & Cmor, D. (2011). Measuring association between library instruction and graduation GPA. College & Research Libraries, 72(5), 464-473.

Thank you!


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