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You say potato and I say …potato? Blending the diverse flavors of literacy into a rewarding teaching experience.

Frey, Susan ; Codispoti, Margit ; Evans, Karen (in absentia)

library instruction ; information literacy

Literacy in libraries has come to mean more than information literacy. Librarians teaching a diverse population respond not only to library users’ research and analytic skills but must also consider the varied qualities each student brings with them into the classroom. Realizing that there are bodies of knowledge, skills, and social practices with which we use the symbol systems of our culture, new definitions are beginning to emerge that recognize a multiplicity of literacies ...

2006

en

Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Information Literacy to Elders

Frey, Susan

library instruction ; information literacy ; community outreach ; community engagement

For the past three years instruction librarians at Indiana State University have taught information and computer literacy skills at a local retirement community as part of ISU’s Westminster Outreach Program. In teaching this population we soon realized that these learners did not behave like our university students and we had to adopt teaching techniques that addressed their unique learning styles. In this presentation we will review how we implemented and manage the program and ...

2007

en

Discovering buried treasure: Teaching strategies for the aging population

Frey, Susan ; Kerico, Juliet

library instruction ; information literacy ; community outreach ; community engagement

Traditionally community engagement for academic libraries translates as outreach to the academic community. But what are the possibilities when an academic library extends outreach to people not normally defined as university stakeholders? At Indiana State University (ISU), we learned that extending outreach to an untapped population can reap unexpected gains. For the past two years ISU instruction librarians have traveled to a local retirement community to teach computer skills ...

2007

en

From Storehouse to Clubhouse: Collection Management in the Library as Place

Frey, Susan ; Codispot, Margit

library-as-place ; academic libraries

For the past two decades people have been responding to profound societal changes brought about by the increasing digitization of information and the ubiquity of the internet. Believing that all information is mobile and stressed by shrinking budgets, administrators and policy makers are beginning to consider closing libraries in favor of offering a suite of online services. In response to this challenge to demonstrate the relevancy of the library proper in an increasingly digitized ...

2009

en

Reshaping Spaces and Rethinking Roles: Reference as Place

Frey, Susan ; Codispoti, Margit

library-as-place ; academic libraries

For the past two decades people have been responding to profound societal changes brought about by the increasing digitization of information and the ubiquity of the internet. Such change has affected libraries dramatically. Librarians have been so successful at extending information resources and services into the cyber-community that some administrators and policy-makers have begun questioning the need for maintaining the physical library. In response to this challenge a body ...

2008

en

The Library As “Third Place” in Academe: Fulfilling a Need for Community in the Digital Age

Codispoti, Margit ; Frey, Susan

library-as-place ; academic libraries

Today’s highly technological society is causing people to lose their personal connections and sense of community. In his book The Great Good Place, sociologist Ray Ohlenburg identifies the need people have for a “third place” after home and work that provides for community interaction and socialization with others. In the academic community on college and university campuses, students, faculty and administrators are looking for a place on campus that provides a learning environment ...

2007

en

ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AND SLEEP DISTURBANCES: CONSIDERATION OF FAMILIAL INFLUENCES

Noble, Gretchen Stuckert

attention-deficit ; hyperactivity disorder sleep disturbances

The present study examined the extent to which parenting influences problems with sleep in children referred for an evaluation of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Data was collected from parents and/or legal guardians of sixty-three 4- to 12-year old children referred for assessment at an ADHD Evaluation Clinic located at a Midwestern university. Previous literature linking sleep problems to ADHD has typically derived from community and pediatric sleep clinic samples ...

2009

Dissertation

en

Stressful Life Events and Interpersonal, Religious, and Spiritual Changes

Murdock, Paul

stress ; trauma ; growth ; religion ; change

Survivors of stressful life events and traumatic experiences often report positive psychological changes “.as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances” (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004, p. 1). Three often reported areas of growth include having a greater appreciation for life in general, new priorities, and an increased significance placed on interpersonal, spiritual or religious issues. Despite reports of positive changes, the literature on stress-related ...

2009

Dissertation

en

PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS: PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS AND PREDICTION OF DOCTORAL STUDENT STRESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION

Montgomery, Crista

graduate student ; training, self-care ; stress ; satisfaction

A growing literature on professional training and practice of psychology advocates that psychologists must be educated on risks and effects of impairment and the importance of self-care. Despite the general recognition of the importance of these issues, they have not been incorporated into training standards such as the American Psychological Association (APA) Guidelines and Principles of Accreditation (2007). In order to assess the approaches that programs currently adopt to ...

2009

Dissertation

en