April 2011 Articles

I've been meaning to write for some time about an interesting discussion I took part in about a month ago in the service learning faculty learning community. A panel of service learning veterans came to share their experiences with us. One of the conversations that evolved stressed the importance of the difference between serving "to" or serving "with" community partners. As one develops service learning pedagogy and curriculum, it's important for us to be mindful of this distinction. We shouldn't say "Here's what I think you need, so here's what my class will do for you." It should be…

Jennifer Nutefall and I co-facilitated a roundtable discussion about service learning and information literacy connections at last week's ACRL Annual conference. These are some of the notes from the discussion. What roles can librarians play in Service Learning?

• Librarians can help create research assignments to integrate into service learning experiences in existing courses. Both roundtable co-facilitators shared their experiences incorporating research with service-learning projects in composition courses on their…