CARL-SCIL Presents SCIL Works 2008:
Putting Theory into Practice: The 'Why' Behind Instructional Strategies

Friday, January 25, 2007, 9 am - 1:30 pm
Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California
Honnold/Mudd Library, 4th floor, Irvine Room

SCIL Works is an annual half-day program presented by SCIL in which local instruction librarians exchange ideas and share what’s new in information literacy practice and programming at their institutions.

There are three presentations; each will be offered twice. Poster presenters will be available for questions next to their posters during the scheduled times. Click a link for more detail on a session or poster (in PDF).

9:00-9:30

Registration, Networking, Refreshments
Poster sessions:

Designing & Implementing Student Research Projects for Maximum Learning: A Workshop for Faculty & Librarians

  • Gale Burrow, Coordinator of Library Instruction, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges

Using Constructivism in the Everything is Miscellaneous Environment

  • Maryann Hight, Reference/Instruction Librarian, California State University Stanislaus

Seeking the Balance: Pedagogy of Instruction Across the Disciplines vs. Scaffolding with Just-in-Time Search Skills

  • Robin Lockerby
9:30-9:40 Welcome: Director/Head of Claremont Colleges Libraries?; Dominique Turnbow, SCIL Chair
9:45-10:35
Session 1

Using the Scaffolding Method to Build an Information Literacy Program

  • Julie Artman, Information Services Librarian/Coordinator of Information Services, Chapman University
  • Stacy Russo, Instruction Librarian/Head of Reference and Instruction, Chapman University

Evolving Instruction from Systematic Searching to Situated Learning: A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Research Methods in Religious Studies

  • George H. Thompson, Humanities Librarian, California State University, Chico
10:50-11:40
Session 2

Using the Scaffolding Method to Build an Information Literacy Program (repeat)

 Research as a Cognitive Process

  • Allison Carr, Social Sciences Librarian, California State University, San Marcos
  • April Cunningham, Library Instruction Coordinator, Saddleback College
11:55-12:45
Session 3

Evolving Instruction from Systematic Searching to Situated Learning: A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Research Methods in Religious Studies (repeat)

Research as a Cognitive Process (repeat)

12:45-1:30 Poster Sessions (repeat)