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Making Meaning in the Liberal Artsin the 21st Century
AMICAL Conference
Cairo, Egypt
May 30, 2006
Susan L. Perry
Senior AdvisorThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Director of ProgramsCouncil on Library and Information Resources
Making Meaning in the Liberal Arts
Faculty, Librarians and Instructional Technologists
Working Together
‘New Eyes Each Year’
New eyes each year So youth and age
Find old books here, Like ink and page
And new books, too, In this house join,
Old eyes renew; Minting new coin.
Philip Larkin, February 1979
A liberal education helps us to begin to know what we know, to be receptive to what we don’t know and to make connections between the two. It helps us to pose interesting questions, exercise curiosity, reserve judgment, gather opinion, answer questions intelligently and communicate articulately.
A Liberal Education
Inspired by Sale, Roger. A mind lively and at ease. In New Perspectives on Liberal Education, edited by Herbert Costner. pp. 3-23. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.
The OCLC Environmental Scans
Pattern Recognition.http://www.oclc/membership/escan/default.htm
Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm
“The landscape has changed and the maps have not been published yet.”
Three Trends from Pattern Recognition
• Self-Service--people love to find things for themselves using the web
• Satisfaction--people are happy with what they find using the web. 78% of those surveyed say the open web is providing most of what they need.
• Seamlessness--” the separation of academic, leisure and work time is fusing into a seamless world aided and supported by nomadic computing and information appliances that support multiple activities.”
Three Trends from Perceptions
Attitudes--Users do not trust purchased information over free information.--Search engines are rated higher than libraries as satisfactory sources of quality and quantity of information.--Most respondents agree that the library is a place to learn.
Three Trends from Perceptions
Behaviors --Increased reliance on search engines to begin information searches (84%); 90% satisfaction level with search engine results.
--Search engines fit consumers’ lifestyle better than physical or online libraries.
Three Trends from Perceptions
Knowledge
--Most information consumers are not aware of libraries’ electronic information resources.
Four other issues that will impact libraries
• Disaggregation
• Collaboration
• Distance/online education• Changes in Scholarly Communication
Two Stories
Technopedagogy
Student Interviews
George Mason University
“Teaching Across the Curriculum”
‘You know, we write an awful lot of papers!’
Students involved in the
Technopedagogy Workshops
George Mason University
Embedding Technology in the Curriculumhttp://cas.gmu.edu/tac/
Conversations with…
Student Interviews - movie
What Do 21st Century Historians Need To Know?
How will they learn it?
The Valley of the Shadow
University of Virginiahttp://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
American Memory
The Library of Congresshttp://memory.loc.gov/
Historical Atlas Project
Mount Holyoke Collegehttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hatlas/atlas/
Arab World
NITLEhttp://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/collaborations/al_musharaka
Alexander Street Press
http://www.alexanderstreet.com
Resources
Bert Lott’s article: “An Editorial on Grading Student Work in Multimedia” (nyp) [email protected] Review March/April 2003 article by Elizabeth Daley http://www.educause.net/ir/library/pdf/erm0322.pdf
EDUCAUSE Review July/August 2003 article by Diana Oblingerhttp://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0342.pdf
ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology; Volume 5, 2004
Thanks to…
Tamra Hjermstad, Mount Holyoke College
Bert Lott, Vassar College
Bryan Alexander & Sarah Lohnes, CET, Middlebury College
Andrea Nixon, Carleton College
And the students who were willing to share their opinions and their time