Brown Bag Lunches – Fall 2007

The brown bag lunch series, sponsored by the Information

Literacy Committee, the late Web Review Committee, and
the Cataloguing Committee, provides professional
development opportunities for library staff. Bring your
lunch and come prepared to learn and talk! The brown bags
will be held in the SMIL screening room from noon – 1:30
on following dates:

Tues., Oct. 23: OpenURL/CoinS [Stacy Allison-Cassin]

What is COinS and why is it important? How can we facilitate easy movement
between resources in online environments to ensure that our users can seamlessly
access all resources to which they are entitled? We will explore these questions and
look at some possible emerging solutions.

Thurs., Nov. 8: Cool Tools for Scholars [John Dupuis]

There are many useful tools for scholars popping up on the web and many of them
are freely available. Come explore what these tools can do to help you, faculty, and
students.

Wed., Nov. 14: Curriculum Integration [Ilo Katryn-Maimets & Mark

Robertson]

This brownbag session will look at the theory and practice of Curriculum Integration.
How is it defined? What are some models? How do we achieve it? Mark and Ilo have
both integrated information literacy into academic curricula by targeting key courses
within the psychology, nursing and biology programs. They will discuss their
experiences in planning and implementing curriculum integration projects in
collaboration with academic departments and faculty.

Mon., Nov. 26: What differences do academic libraries and librarians

make? [Deena Yanofsky]

The university library provides the information and opportunities for learning that
students and faculty need to be active participants in civil society. Librarians teach
the academic community how to identify and evaluate information that is essential to
making decisions that affect the way we live, work, learn and govern ourselves —
values and skills fundamental to democratic participation and civil service. So why
have so few academic librarians yet to incorporate civic and community engagement
into their positions?

Tues., Dec. 4: Changes are Coming? Resource Description and Access

and the Future of Bibliographic Description [Marcia Salmon & Tim
Knight]

The Anglo American Cataloguing Rules are undergoing a major revision, including a
name change. What is coming? Do the changes go far enough? Too far? What do
these changes mean for the larger library world (and for those who use libraries)?