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1. Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries, Third Edition

Author

American Library Association, Smith, Susan Sharpless, Smith, Susan Sharpless, and American Library Association

Abstract

Expanding on the popular, practical how-to guide for public, academic, school, and special libraries, technology expert Susan Sharpless Smith offers library instructors the confidence to take Web-based instruction into their own hands. Smith has thoroughly updated "Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries" to include new tools and trends, including current browsers, access methods, hardware, and software. She also supplies tips to secure project funding and provides strategic guidance for all types of libraries. This completely revised edition also: (1) Builds Web instruction advice on a foundation of the latest research in how learning takes place; (2) Translates technical Web-speak into plain English, so even nonexperts can make effective use of the Web in their teaching; (3) Includes an accompanying Web gallery, providing examples of screen shots and links to exemplary programs; and (4) Shows instructors best practices for incorporating the Web into teaching. Contents include: (1) Setting the Stage; (2) Library Instruction on the Web; (3) Project Framework; (4) Selecting Project Development Tools; (5) Designing the User Experience; (6) Multimedia: Using Graphics, Sound, Animation, and Video; (7) Interactivity; and (8) Evaluation, Testing, and Assessment. List of Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Appendix, Glossary, Works Cited and Index are also included.

Published
2010

2. Bringing Information Literacy into the Social Sphere: A Case Study Using Social Software to Teach Information Literacy at WFU

Author

Mitchell, Erik T. and Smith, Susan Sharpless

Abstract

This article presents an approach to teaching information literacy in an academic course from a socio-technical perspective. It includes an overview of the course framework, a review of course contents, and an analysis of student responses provided through pre- and post-course surveys. The premise of the course design was that students bring a set of technical and information skills to class that address specific but not generalized information literacy goals. By designing a course to engage students from this perspective, the instructors hoped to find a new method for approaching information literacy instruction. (Contains 4 figures and 3 tables.)

Published
2009
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9. Digital Forsyth: A Collaborative Digitization Project for Historic Photographs.

Author

Smith, Susan Sharpless and Snow, Sharon

Abstract

The article focuses on Digital Forsyth, a collaborative project of the Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library of the Wake Forest University, O. Kelley Library of the Wake Forest University, Coy C. Carpenter Library (CCCL) of Baptist Medical Center, and the Forsyth County Public Library (FCPL) in North Carolina. It mentions that the project was launched in the fall of 2004 with the aim of digitizing images from the collections of the libraries. It states that the images would be preserved using contextual metadata.

Published
2008

10. Embedded librarians.

Author

Smith, Susan Sharpless and Sutton, Lynn

Subjects
*SCHOOL field trips, *SOCIOLOGY education, *SOCIAL stratification, *LIBRARIANS, *CIVIL rights, *HURRICANE Katrina, 2005
Abstract

The article offers information on a tour of the American South initiated by the authors, who are librarians from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as part of the sociology course "Social Stratification in the Deep South." The course focused on the race, class, and gender issues that have long divided the region. According to them, the most exciting prospect of the course was the opportunity to become embedded librarians in the original sense of the concept. Their trip to Alabama explored civil rights era locations and issues, while their midtrip destinations provided a backdrop to study the after effects of the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf Coast areas.

Published
2008
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