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Research
CRISP (National Institute of Health) - Abstracts for federally funded biomedical research projects 1972-present. 
Dissertation Express (UMI) - Connect to Dissertation Express as an individual and purchase digital files or loose-leaf shrinkwrapped copies of dissertations using your credit card. 
PapersFirst (OCLC FirstSearch) (UC students and personnel only)
PapersFirst (WorldCat Local)
ProceedingsFirst (OCLC FirstSearch) (UC students and personnel only)
ProceedingsFirst (WorldCat Local)

Recommended Reading
Changing Sea: The Changing Spirituality of Emerging Adults Project

Program Review Resources
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary Education Resource Library (Midwestern Higher Education Compact)

 

Information Literacy

 

"Information Literacy is a way of thinking."

-- Craig Gibson in Student Engagement and Information Literacy

Practitioners have yet to agree on a firm definition of information literacy.  Some consider it synonomous with library research skills.  Others believe it to be a set of information technology utilization skills.  In truth, information literacy includes both and much more.  It includes the articulation of an information need and a knowledge of the resources which will potentially meet that need as well as the ability to evaluate, synthesize, and ethically/legally use the sought after information.
 

 

Resources for learning more about information literacy:

Foster, Andrea L.  "Students Lack 'Information Literacy,' Testing Service's Study Finds."  The Chronicle of Higher Education. (October 17, 2006).  Appears in the Today's News column available online only and does require a password.  Contact Sabrina Riley for access information. 

Gibson, Craig, ed.  Student Engagement and Information Literacy.  Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006.  (Call # 028.7071 St9 2006)

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.  Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

Information Literacy in the Disciplines.  Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Section.

Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report.  Association of College and Research Libraries, 1989.

NASW & ASWB Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice.  National Association of Social Workers, Association of Social Work Boards, 2005.

 

Course Reserves

Provide equal access to required reading/viewing for your students. Books, articles, and audiovisual materials may be put on reserve at the Circulation Desk. Both library-owned and personal items may be put on reserve. The library provides audiovisual viewing facilities supporting VHS, DVD, CD, and more. One hour reserves are to be used in the library only. Two hour, one day, three day, and one week reserve items may be checked out.

Students and faculty may view current course reserve items in WorldCat Local by selecting Course Reserves in the dropdown menu under Search in the upper left hand corner.

See the Course Reserves Policy for more information.

Reserves Request Form
Course Reserves Policy
 

Teacher of Year Award

Union College Library is seeking nominations for the 2013 Teacher of the Year Award.

This award recognizes a Union College teacher's support of the library during the school year and grants him or her the opportunity to expand an area of the library's collection which is of particular professional interest.

Salvador Moguel, who won the award in 2012, says the award gave him

the opportunity of acquiring books about teaching science, communicating to others and our students in the classroom about life, about biology, the area of science I enjoy the most. Certainly, these books will be of great benefit to me, and faculty or students interested in teaching biology or science courses. It also gave me the opportunity of having a 3-volume set about the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Chlamydomonas (“Chlamy”) is the model organism I use in research projects for biology students enrolled in Research Methods III and IV and some of the cell biology BIOL(404) laboratory activities. These 3-volumes are essential to learn about Chlamydomonas biology, genetics, strain properties, laboratory protocols involving culture methods and experimentation and student demonstrations. 

The 2013 winning nominee will be someone who:

  • Actively uses library resources for personal research
  • Promotes library use among students
  • Supports library-sponsored programs
  • Regularly recommends new materials for acquisition
  • Assists with maintenance of the collection through weeding

The winner will be announced during National Library Week, April 14-20, 2013, and will receive $500 spending credit toward his or her library materials requests for the 2013-2014 fiscal year beyond the regular divisional allocation.

To make a nomination (faculty may nominate themselves), submit the name along with one paragraph describing how the nominee meets the above criteria to Sabrina Riley.  E-mail, campus mail, and hand delivery all accepted.  Nominations will not be accepted after April 5, 2013.  The winner will be selected by the library staff.

Previous winners:
(Previous winners are eligible for a second award after five years.)

2012 Salvador Moguel (eligible again in 2017)
2011 Debbie Eno (eligible again in 2016)
2010 Mike Huckabee (eligible again in 2015)
2009 Tanya Cochran (eligible again in 2014)
2008 Mark Robison (eligible again in 2013)
2007 Edward Allen
2006 Joann Herrington
2005 Karl-Heinz Schroeder
2004 Kathy Bollinger

 

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