The author offers an in-depth examination of resource-based learning as an important new paradigm for higher education. This concept shifts the focus from teaching to learning by requiring students to select their own learning materials from a wide range of real world information resources. A resource-based approach helps students assume more responsibility for their own learning. It also creates a strong partnership between faculty members and campus librarians. Breivik highlights examples of colleges and universities that are already using this approach successfully and offers a framework to help educators create their own resource-based learning programs. This work will be of significant interest to academic leaders, faculty, and campus information providers.
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Of great value to academic and support staff who are preparing students for life long learning....Student affairs practitioners can learn much from this book....This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff. Throughout the book, claims are well supported with examples, research, illustrations, graphs, tables, and charts, and the appendixes provide furtherdocumentation. A section of notes follows each chapter and the volume is well indexed. This easy-to-read volume provides the rationale and means to promote and create a successful information literacy program....Especially useful are the nuts-and-boltschapters on establishing an information literacy program....Perhaps the most imporant aspect of the book is Breivik's savvy approach to the challenges of human resources in and outside the library....With more than twenty pages of appendices, Breivik provides ample information to support any new information literacy endeavor.This volume is an important resource for all academic libraries that are looking at ways to create information literacy programs or to enhance existing instructional programs. Instru (Book Reviews )
Of great value to academic and support staff who are preparing students for life long learning....Student affairs practitioners can learn much from this book....This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff. Throughout the book, claims are well supported with examples, research, illustrations, graphs, tables, and charts, and the appendixes provide further documentation. A section of notes follows each chapter and the volume is well indexed." "This easy-to-read volume provides the rationale and means to promote and create a successful information literacy program....Especially useful are the nuts-and-bolts chapters on establishing an information literacy program....Perhaps the most imporant aspect of the book is Breivik's savvy approach to the challenges of human resources in and outside the library....With more than twenty pages of appendices, Breivik provides ample information to support any new information literacy endeavor.This volume is an important resource for all academic libraries that are looking at ways to create information literacy programs or to enhance existing instructional programs. Instruction libraries unsure of where to start in the implementation of a new literacy program will be well served by the information found in this book." "Breivik recognizes the resource implications and the conceptual implications of her arguments. She writes eloquently on necessary shifts and challenges for students, staff and institution....Breivik presents the report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, giving us a view which is obviously broader based than the university view alone. This is well worth browsing through....I strongly recommend this book to a wide range of academics, administrators and all staff who have a role in supporting student learning and development....helps us think more broadly about h (Book Reviews )
Of great value to academic and support staff who are preparing students for life long learning....Student affairs practitioners can learn much from this book....This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff. Throughout the book, claims are well supported with examples, research, illustrations, graphs, tables, and charts, and the appendixes provide furtherdocumentation. A section of notes follows each chapter and the volume is well indexed. This easy-to-read volume provides the rationale and means to promote and create a successful information literacy program....Especially useful are the nuts-and-boltschapters on establishing an information literacy program....Perhaps the most imporant aspect of the book is Breivik's savvy approach to the challenges of human resources in and outside the library....With more than twenty pages of appendices, Breivik provides ample information to support any new information literacy endeavor.This volume is an important resource for all academic libraries that are looking at ways to create information literacy programs or to enhance existing instructional programs. Instru (Book Reviews )
Of great value to academic and support staff who are preparing students for life long learning....Student affairs practitioners can learn much from this book....This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff. Throughout the book, claims are well supported with examples, research, illustrations, graphs, tables, and charts, and the appendixes provide further documentation. A section of notes follows each chapter and the volume is well indexed." "This easy-to-read volume provides the rationale and means to promote and create a successful information literacy program....Especially useful are the nuts-and-bolts chapters on establishing an information literacy program....Perhaps the most imporant aspect of the book is Breivik's savvy approach to the challenges of human resources in and outside the library....With more than twenty pages of appendices, Breivik provides ample information to support any new information literacy endeavor.This volume is an important resource for all academic libraries that are looking at ways to create information literacy programs or to enhance existing instructional programs. Instruction libraries unsure of where to start in the implementation of a new literacy program will be well served by the information found in this book." "Breivik recognizes the resource implications and the conceptual implications of her arguments. She writes eloquently on necessary shifts and challenges for students, staff and institution....Breivik presents the report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, giving us a view which is obviously broader based than the university view alone. This is well worth browsing through....I strongly recommend this book to a wide range of academics, administrators and all staff who have a role in supporting student learning and development....helps us think more broadly about h (Book Reviews )
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PATRICIA SENN BREIVIK is dean of university libraries at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. From 1990 to 1995, she was the associate vice president for information resources at Towson State University in Towson, Maryland. Her previous positions include director of the Auraria Library and professor at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado; special assistant to the president of the University of Colorado; visiting professor at Columbia University; and American Council on Education (ACE) fellow in academic administration at the University of Wisconsin. Breivik has taught numerous courses and seminars in graduate library programs on academic and research libraries, library administration, fund raising, library instruction, school library media centers, and introduction to librarianship.
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This review is from: Student Learning In The Information Age: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) (Hardcover)
Educators committed to providing all learners with the intellectual skills needed to manage the "literacy" demands of the Information Age will benefit enormously from Dr. Breivik's clear and concise analysis of the importance for integrating information literacy throughout all levels of the academic curriculum in higher education. Information literacy is a synthesis of all the literacies required to navigate the dynamic, technological rapids of the Information Age. Dr. Breivik provides faculty and administrators with a strategic blueprint for designing a variety of information literacy programs. The flexibility in the design of the programming allows educational institutions of all types to incorporate information literacy within the fabric of their institutional missions in preparation for meeting the future challenges of technology, educational reform, and social responsibility. An invaluable, strategic planning resource that should not be overlooked as hi! gher education continues to assess the effectiveness of its present teaching and learning infrastructure.
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information literacy efforts, information literacy programs, information literacy abilities, competency growth plan, information literacy initiatives, information literate, students for lifelong learning, information literacy skills, information management skills, information competency, staff development efforts, information competence, technology into the curriculum, information competencies, bibliographic instruction, library instruction, regional accrediting agencies, information anxiety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
California State University, Wayne State University, American Library Association, Presidential Committee, New York, Patricia Senn Breivik, San Jose, United States, California Community Colleges, San Francisco, Towson University, Developing Students, University of Washington, Civil War, Griffith University, Jossey-Bass Publishers, University of Michigan, Cape Town, Colorado Response, King's College, National Forum, Project Phoenix, The Changing Academic Library, The Undergraduate Experience, Ann Arbor New!
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information literacy efforts, information literacy programs, information literacy abilities, competency growth plan, information literacy initiatives, information literate, students for lifelong learning, information literacy skills, information management skills, information competency, staff development efforts, information competence, technology into the curriculum, information competencies, bibliographic instruction, library instruction, regional accrediting agencies, information anxiety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
California State University, Wayne State University, American Library Association, Presidential Committee, New York, Patricia Senn Breivik, San Jose, United States, California Community Colleges, San Francisco, Towson University, Developing Students, University of Washington, Civil War, Griffith University, Jossey-Bass Publishers, University of Michigan, Cape Town, Colorado Response, King's College, National Forum, Project Phoenix, The Changing Academic Library, The Undergraduate Experience, Ann Arbor New!
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- Final report on 5 pages
- Higher Education and the American Resurgence (A Carnegie Foundation Special Report) by Frank Newman on 4 pages
- College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) by Ernest L. Boyer on page 2, page 4, and page 19
- The Knowledge Executive by Harlan Cleveland on page 55, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Information Literacy: Developing Students as Independent Learners (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education) by D. W. Farmer on page 55, page 75, and page 92
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