IS Division E-Mail Update No. 2

1. Reminder. The professional development session with Marie Radford is Friday, March 2.
The following is required reading to prepare for the session. Click on the link to the fulltext in Academic Search Premier.

"Approach or Avoidance? The role of nonverbal communication in the academic library user's decision to initiate a reference encounter." Library Trends, 46(4), 699-717. (link to online text)

2. Attendance Sheets. Please turn in attendance/statistics sheets for workshops and course related lectures in the reference office. Joanne has created a bin in the cubicle nearest Aisha’s office. The sign above it says,”Attention all workshop and course-related lecture attendance sheets are placed here.” You can’t miss it.

3. Academic Integrity Comics. By now most of you have seen the academic integrity comic strips at the reference desk. These were developed by the Academic Integrity Committee and a recent graduate/graphic artist as a means to raise issues of integrity and build interest in the upcoming Academic Integrity conference. Reference librarians should offer these to students stopping at the desk. There are three ongoing story/plot lines with multiple installments, so the comics will change each week.

4. Academic Integrity Conference. Please register for the Academic Integrity Conference. This is an important professional development opportunity on a critically important topic, a chance to network and do outreach with faculty in other departments, and it is located in this building. You need to register in advance for this conference. Here is the link for the registration.

Academic Integrity Conference at Baruch. Friday, March 9, 9:00-3:15, 151 E. 25th Street (Newman Library Building), Room 750. Faculty members, students, and administrators are invited to a CUNY-wide Academic Integrity Conference to discuss a wide range of issues in open forums, break-out sessions, and in response to our keynote speaker Lawrence Simon (Baruch BBA ’65), Vice Chairman, Ivy Asset Management Corporation and a trustee of the Baruch College Fund. Please encourage students to attend.

• Provisional program is available online
• Register online (username = your last name)
• Questions/Comments: aiconference@baruch.cuny.edu

5. Information Literacy Conference March 16th at LaGuardia. LACUNY has taken the lead in organizing another important professional development opportunity on March 16th focused on information literacy across the disciplines. We need at least three or four people to attend and report back on the discussions to the rest of the division. Please register as soon as possible.

The Role of Information Literacy Across the DisciplinesThe LaGuardia Community College Library Media Resources Center, the LACUNY Instruction Committee and the CUNY Office of Library Services are proud to present Dr. Betsy Barefoot, Co-Director for the Policy Center on the First Year of College, Brevard College, NC. Of interest to all faculty and administrators involved in curriculum matters, assessment, and/or teaching, this colloquium will feature a keynote speech by Dr. Barefoot on the importance of information literacy in general education. A panel discussion will follow.

Friday, March 16, 9:00-12:00 (light breakfast at 8:45), The Little Theater LaGuardia Community College

For details on the event, contact Charles Keyes at 718-482-6018 or ckeyes@lagcc.cuny.edu

6. Next IS Meeting. Monday, March 12, 2:00-3:30 pm. Save the date and time.
We will schedule a policy discussion on use of the wikipedia as a research and reference tool. Several readings will be sent to everyone for background reading in preparation for this discussion.