July 2012 RodCast Articles
If my Wordpress dashboard is correct, this is the 100th post on Service Learning Librarian! This is a big week for my blog and for my "agenda" of pairing service-learning and information literacy. On Monday, Chris Sweet, Information Literacy Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, became SLL's first-ever guest contributor! If you haven't read it yet, here is his
Let me begin this guest post with a short introduction. My name is Chris Sweet and I am the Information Literacy Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University (Central Illinois). I had been following Maureen's blog as well as her publications for some time prior to meeting her in-person at this year's LOEX Conference in Columbus, OH. Both of us have discovered a real passion for service-learning and have seen first-hand how adding information literacy elements to service-learning courses can create even stronger and more effective classes.
This summer, I'm working on several projects that will support several service-learning courses with which I will l partner beginning fall semester. As I've said many times over, service-learning students and community partners often need local or otherwise unique data - outside of the usual "find some scholarly articles" kind of assignments.