August 2012 Articles

Watch out world!  My faculty friend Dr. Sarah Twill & I will present about our service-learning experiences twice this fall.  Once at the Academic Library Association of Ohio conference in October and again at the Lilly International Conference on College Teaching!  And if that isn't exciting enough, we also just got word this week that we'll be co-presenting along with Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian at Santa Clara University, and Maggie Stevens of Indiana Campus Compact, at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2013 conference in…

The concept of civic literacy was brought to my attention this morning by my friend and fellow service-learning enthusiast, Jennifer Nutefall.  Perhaps I've been living under a rock.  I've heard dozens of kinds of literacy in recent years (digital literacy, media literacy, transliteracy, financial literacy, etc), but I haven't spent any time looking into civic literacy.  Jennifer forwarded me papers and proceedings from a recent IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) conference:…