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Managing the Changing Research Models in the Humanities

ACRL Professional Development Workshop
January 19, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Seattle, Washington

In an academic setting where many undergraduates never learned the models for conducting research with print materials, and many graduate students and faculty struggle with evolving electronic interfaces, those transmitting research skills need new metaphors, communication techniques and, perhaps, objectives. This full-day workshop will provide an overview of the current environment in humanities research, focusing on library services and communication initiatives.

Half of the workshop will be devoted to exploring the humanities-research environment and a variety of communication techniques of use to those with academic constituencies. In a group project, participants will create a communications strategy, incorporating provided models, to promote information literacy within humanities disciplines.  The second half of the workshop will focus on changing research tools, techniques to teach them, and will include a group exercise in setting instructional objectives and creating a lesson plan from those objectives.

Learning outcomes:
1. Gain an understanding of the changing research environments within the humanities.
2. Design an information-literacy lesson plan for a course involving multidisciplinary research requiring multimedia resources.
3. Explore the effects of classroom presentation techniques on educational outcomes
4. Acquire communication techniques to promote library services to humanities constituencies.

Presenter: Charlotte Cubbage, Bibliographer for English, Comparative Literatures, and the Performing Arts, Northwestern University

Registration: Registration is now open!  Click here to access registration materials.  December 8, 2006, is the advance registration deadline.  (Event code AR1.)  Registration fees: ACRL member - $205; ALA member - $255; Nonmember - $285; Student - $95.

Questions?  Contact Margot S. Conahan at msutton@ala.org, 312-280-2522.