The May 2009 Workshops
Introduction
What is Information Literacy? (link)
David Wilson, Trinity University
Invited Speakers
Object-Based Projects to Teach Information Literacy Skills (pdf)
Abby Clobridge, Harvard University, and Dave del Testa, Bucknell University
Coverage Doesn’t Cut It: Information Literacy in the Literary Survey Course (pdf)
Terese Heidenwolfe and Chris Phillips, Lafayette College
Assessing Trinity's First Year Information Literacy Goals (pdf)
Teresa Neely, University of New Mexico
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Speaker Bios
Brad Belbas is an Academic Information Associate at Macalester College.
Abby Clobridge is the Associate Director for Research & Knowledge Services at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. From 2003-2009, she was the head of the digital library program at Bucknell University. During that time, she worked with faculty to create digital collections designed to support their teaching and research. She and David Del Testa (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bucknell University) won the 2009 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award on behalf of their work on one such project, the World War II Poster Project. Details about the project are available at www.paperandpixels.org. Abby has over ten years of experience working in library/information science. Prior to working in academia, she worked at CNN as an investigative researcher and news librarian. Abby holds an M.S. in Library Science from Florida State University and a B.A. in History from Tufts University.
David Del Testa is currently assistant professor of history at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Davis in 2001. His primary research concerns the radicalization of Vietnamese and Cambodian railroad workers during the 1920s and 1930s in French colonial Indochina. He also has important secondary research interests in the métis (“mixed-race”) community of the French colonial empire between the two world wars as well as digital and active learning pedagogies.
Terese Heidenwolf is Associate Director for Research and Instructional Services at Lafayette College Libraries. She has been active in information literacy activities within the Association for College and Research Libraries and chaired the Institute for Information Literacy's Executive Committee and its Best Practices Project Team. Terese works with faculty colleagues in all disciplines to teach students information literacy skills and last year was awarded Lafayette's Marquis Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Teresa Neely is currently Associate Professor and Director, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico Libraries, University of New Mexico (UNM). She is also a Visiting Lecturer in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences and is also a
Consultant on Information Literacy. Prior to her appointment at UNM, she held positions at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)—Head of Reference; and at Colorado State University Libraries (CSU)—Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian; Acting Coordinator of Reference Services—Instruction, Outreach, and Staff Training; and Interim Personnel Librarian and Staff Development/Training Coordinator. Dr. Neely holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from South Carolina State College (now University), and received her M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Library and Information Science) from the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Chris Phillips is assistant professor of English at Lafayette College, where he teaches early American literature, American studies, history of the book, and writing. He has published on Melville, early abolitionist writing, and the history of epic form in American culture.
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