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July 2012 RodCast Articles

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Maureen Barry

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

Tags: Chris Sweet, Loanne Snavely, Student Engagement and the Academic Library (book) Categories: Information Literacy, Pairing Information Literacy and Service-Learning, Publications
Posted on July 7, 2012 by

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.

Tags: Chris Sweet, LOEX, Wingspread Declaration on the Civic Responsibilities of Research Universities Categories: Civic Engagement, Information Literacy, Library/librarian roles, Pairing Information Literacy and Service-Learning
Posted on July 7, 2012 by Maureen Barry

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.

Tags: Becky Canovan Categories: SL Models