California Conference on Library Instruction Blog

New URL, New Look, New Committe Name

2011-10-03T08:20:00.000-07:00

We are now the California Conference on Library Instruction and our URL is now at: http://www.cclibinstruction.org/

CCLI Is All About What You're Doing in Library Instruction!

2009-05-07T20:28:00.001-07:00

It is true, and we want you to share your projects, your endeavors, your theories, your queries, and your selves as library instructors.

To do that there needs to be more than just those of us of the steering committee sharing what we have found. If you have an article, a report, a project you are working on you would like to share, a link to the hard work and sweat on something you have place online or a program you deserve to gloat about, please contact me (Norman Buchwald) at nbuchwald@chabotcollege.edu

The blog replaces our old online newsletter and it has become our forum. I serve simply as editor to this new online place, and will be more than happy to post your article, your musings, a link to your online tutorial, your report on that conference you were so lucky to get funded or that awesome presentation that just needs to be shared beyond one small mere meeting room or even an auditorium!

Meanwhile, hope you enjoy tomorrow's program: Starting Out Strong: Motivating First Year Students for Success. We look forward to hearing from you!

Norman Buchwald
Secretary and Blog Editor of CCLI

Spring Workshop: May 8, 2009: Starting Out Strong: Motivating First-Year Students for Success

2009-03-11T08:47:00.000-07:00

CCLI Annual Spring Workshop for 2009
http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/2009flyer.pdf

Do you want to understand your 1st-year students better?
Are you being asked about the role of your library in student retention?
Do you want to make sure they gain the information literacy skills that
will help them succeed?

If so, then you should plan on attending:

"Starting Out Strong: Motivating First-Year Students for Success"

The program is jointly sponsored by the California Clearinghouse on
Library Instruction (CCLI) and St. Mary's College.
This all-day program will be Friday, May 8th, at Saint Mary's College in
Moraga, CA.

Featured speakers and topics will include:

Rhonda Rios Kravitz-Library Instruction Plus: Developing a sense of
belonging for students of color during the first-year experience
(Sacramento City College)

Korey Brunetti, Amy R. Hofer, & Lori Townsend-Threshold Concepts:
High-Impact IL Instruction (CSU East Bay)

Joseph Cuseo-Promoting Student Learning & Success During the First Year
of College: Foundational, Research-Based Principles (Marymount College)

For further details about speakers and to register, please see our flyer
at: http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/2009flyer.pdf

Thank you,
CCLI Steering Committee

International logo for Information Literacy

2008-11-24T17:06:00.000-08:00

Sooo, have you seen the new Information Literacy Logo developed by the IFLA Information Literacy Standing Committee? It's now available for download from http://infolitglobal.info/logo

We're developing a toolkit for its use so keep checking this site

CCLI Plans for 2009

2008-11-24T12:19:00.000-08:00

The Steering Committee had its first meeting on October 17, 2008 and will meet again before the end of the year. We are currently planning the Spring 2009 Workshop! Meanwhile, we have elected Sharon Radcliff to be our Current Chair and Annette Marines as our Vice Chair. We are also enthusiastically looking for more people to be on the Steering Committee. If interested, contact Sharon Radcliff!

See You This Friday!

2008-05-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

Look forward to a great workshop day.

Meanwhile, for next year, we are planning to have our blog serve as our newsletter. Anybody who would like to submit articles on thoughts they have on library instruction, or projects you would like to share--please Email the blogmaster, Norman Buchwald at: nbuchwald@chabotcollege.edu

Save This Date: May 16th is Our Spring Workshop

2008-02-20T11:08:00.001-08:00

California Clearinghouse for Library Instruction Spring Workshop
The California Clearinghouse for Library Instruction (CCLI) will present its annual spring workshop, It’s the Millennium: Do You Know Where Your Users Are? on Friday, May 16, 2008, from 9am to 3pm at the University Inn and Conference Center in Santa Cruz.

Speakers will include:

Stephen Abram, Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute, speaking on “Reality 2.0: Engaging the Scholarly User.”
Alison J. Head, the Roy and Patricia Disney Visiting Professor in New Media Communication at Saint Mary’s College, along with Saint Mary’s librarian Sarah Vital, will report on their research project on student research habits in their presentation “A View of Information Literacy Through the Lens of the Student Experience.”
Michelle Jacobs, Emerging Technologies and Web Coordinator at UCLA, will round out the speakers with her views on using Web 2.0 technologies to meet our students where they are.

Registration will open soon. For more information go to our website at: http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/

SANTA CRUZ LINKS
University of California, Santa Cruz
UCSC Currents (Weekly publication from the UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office)
UCSC University Library
UCSC Inn and Conference Center
Santa Cruz Sentinel (Local newspaper)
Santa Cruz Metro (Weekly news and events)

Local Attractions
Pacific Garden Mall (Downtown Santa Cruz)
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Santa Cruz Wharf
Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

Dining
The Bagelry
Soif Wine Bar and Restaurant
Chocolate

Walks/Hiking
Santa Cruz State Parks (Hiking in the redwoods)
West Cliff Drive (Leisure walk alongside a beautiful ocean bluff)

Books
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Logos (Used) Books and Records
Literary Guillotine

ACRL Standards for Proficiences of Instruction (for Librarians and Coordinators)

2007-11-13T11:11:00.000-08:00

Last summer in Washington, D.C. at ALA, the ACRL Board has approved standards for proficiences of instruction.

For instruction librarians, these new standards are broken down into the following proficiencies:

Administrative Skills
Assessment and Evaluation Skills
Communication Skills
Curriculum Knowledge
Information Literacy Integration Skills
Instructional Design Skills
Leadership Skills
Planning Skills
Presentation Skills
Promotion Skills
Subject Expertise
and finally, yes, Teaching Skills.

Please take a look at the Standards at: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/profstandards.cfm
(It is also available in the October issue of College and Research Libraries News)

Have any thoughts or ideas on how we can utilize them to improve our instruction (or plan new programs or technologies)? Share your thoughts! Click on "Comments." We'd love to hear from you.

Welcome to CCLI-North's New Blog!

2007-09-04T20:14:00.000-07:00

*******Bumped up to greet our members as this is now officially live! ************

Welcome! Well for those who attended our event in 2007, on using Web 2.0 products for library instruction, it seemed fitting that CCLI-North (California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction of Northern California for those not in the know), should go Web 2.0 as well and have its own blog. So here it is. Stay tuned for getting links, tips, and discussions, and thoughts about approaches to library instruction in the 21st century.

But first things first. You should at least take a look at our fantastic website at http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/index.htm Notice that as we are still a "Clearinghouse"
as we have a depository only now it is to web sites--to library subject guides, sites on information competency, and more!

So please bookmark us (on Delicious! of course), or subscribe to us hitting on the Posts (Atom) link listed on the bottom of the page-- and from time to time we may make you ponder about what we can do to improve our teaching and better reach our students and other users. And by all means, please feel free to hit the "Comments" link after a post to reply to us.

Web 2.0: Searching Innovations

2007-07-26T16:19:00.000-07:00

Hi fellow library people,

I attended a great Infopeople (http://infopeople.org/) workshop on July 24, 2007 at San Jose State University. This workshop, part of a series on Web 2.0 topics, was free, but I would have paid money for it! For other workshops in this free series see: http://infopeople.org/training/web20/.

The workshop was taught by Joe Barker, a recently retired librarian from UC Berkeley, who now teaches workshops for Infopeople. We started off with a brief discussion of Web 2.0 and then moved quickly into a hands-on introduction to del.icio.us, the mobile, community-oriented, user-friendly bookmark/favorite organizer! It is mobile because it allows you to access your bookmarks from any location. It is community oriented
because you can make your favorites visible to others and tag them so that you and others can easily search them! It is user-friendly because… Well, try it out and see for yourself at http://del.icio.us/. Here’s a link to Joe Barker’s bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/joebarker.
He links to many good Web 2.0 sources. I was able to set up an account and add a number of bookmarks complete with tags during the workshop. To see my much more limited set go to: http://del.icio.us/sradcliff (I did all this during the workshop!).

We covered many other Web 2.0 topics, such as using various search engines and strategies to search for blogs, wikis, and multimedia material on the Web. Hint: for wikis use inurl:wiki. For blogs: try Technorati! We also looked at Flickr, the site for uploading, tagging, and sharing pictures. This source, I had already used extensively. You can tag and group pictures and create slideshows. For a non-library related example go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miknez (my pictures). Many libraries use Flickr to get photos of exhibits, library events, etc… on to their Home Pages. For an example see
http://library.coloradocollege.edu/news/. You can also search Flickr for pictures of exhibits and library signage to get ideas!

Something new I learned at the workshop was that Google now has a CSE product! A CSE is a custom search engine that you build yourself by limiting your search to a set group of websites. Or you can use someone else’s CSE that they have made public. The Google product is similar to Rollyo, which has been around for a while, but allows you to add more websites! For some examples, go to http://www.customsearchguide.com/.
For other links to CSE, go to the bookmarks on the Infopeople website for this class at
http://bookmarks.infopeople.org/. Look for web2_srchng_bk.html (another great resource for all things Web 2.0).

We also covered RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) feeds which Joe Barker describes as “trapping what you need to stay on top of.” He recommends Bloglines as the best feed reader around. I also find it to be easy to set up and use. You can set up an account at:
http://www.bloglines.com/. You can easily subscribe to a few blogs and also set up an RSS feed for a customized Google search! Go to http://www.bloglines.com/ to register.

The workshop also covered Facebook, MySpace, and the new kid on the block: Ning.
I searched Ning and found a community of Business Librarians. Hmmm… Maybe I’ll join.

These were some of the highlights of the workshop for me though many other topics and sources were covered! I highly recommend this Web 2.0 series!
Sharon Radcliff, Business Librarian, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, sradclif@stmarys-ca.edu

CCLI 2007: Social Networking to Teach

2007-07-19T23:35:00.000-07:00

Last May, CCLI-North held its workshop in Sacramento. The theme was on using the Web 2.0 tools and universe as a forum for library instruction. As you can see, it was well attended:

We invited three excellent speakers to help us explore how we could tap into this interactive online universe of social networks and have our students use these tools to enhance and improve their research. For information about our three excellent speakers, please go to http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/%7Eccli/workshops.htm

Library Instruction 2.0: Empowering the Learner 2007 Spring Workshop May 11, 2007 California State University, Sacramento

Presentations are now available as podcasts.

Sharon Radcliff Podcast: Welcome from Chair

David Silver Podcast: Learning 1.0 in a Web 2.0 World: Engaging Students, Classrooms, and Libraries Access David's blog at http://silverinsf.blogspot.com

Anne-Marie Deitering Podcast: Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World Presentation Notes & Links

Michele Mizejewski Podcast: Instruction on Demand: Shifting Time and Space Presentation Slides Notes & Links