Dear Immersion participants,
Thank you for registering for the ACRL Immersion program-at-Cornell. The program will take place May 21-24, 2012, in the Stern Conference Room, 160 Mann Library.
This program will give CUL instructors' instructors’ the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills, build their knowledge of assessment, and see how their instruction fits into the larger context of a CUL information literacy program. This is the first time that ACRL has customized its Immersion program for an institution, and the faculty leading the program (see bios below) are very excited about the opportunity.
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- ACRL will extend an invitation to every participant to join Moodle (course management system, similar to Blackboard) where pre-Immersion readings and other materials will be posted;
- We anticipate that each participant will need to complete some preparation work in the weeks leading up to start of Immersion on May 21. More information will be forthcoming as soon as the Immersion faculty share it with us;
- The Information Literacy Taskforce will share the goals and objectives for CUL's CUL’s Information Literacy Program;
- PSEC Instruction will send out a pre-Immersion survey where we will invite you to share your hopes and goals for Immersion;
- A final schedule for the Immersion program will be sent to you when it is finalized in early May.
If you have any questions, please don't don’t hesitate to contact a member of PSEC Instruction:
Camille Andrews
Kaila Bussert
Gaby Castro-Gessner
Tony Cosgrave
Amy Emerson
Thomas Mills (co-chair)
Jaron Porciello (co-chair)
Tracey Snyder
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Beth Woodard has served as a reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983. Since 2002, she has also served as the library-wide Coordinator for Staff Development and Training, providing a wide variety of instructional opportunities for undergraduate student workers, graduate assistants, staff members, academic professionals and library faculty. These range from preparing an online introduction to the libraries for use by over 400 undergraduate student workers using course-management software, to providing a week-long face-to-face orientation to the library's library’s 80 graduate assistants, and from providing an intensive institute for training supervisors to providing more customized orientation for new library faculty on research expectations at the institution. Previously she was a reference librarian at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. From 1993 to 1995, Beth team-taught a course in library use instruction in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. In 1999, she joined the faculty for the Immersion program. From 2007-2008, she taught the ACRL online course on Teaching Portfolios with Joan Ruelle and Judith Arnold. She has served as a consultant for improving instruction programs and teaching skills for librarians at several universities in the Midwest, ranging from one-day sessions to five days, and has been asked to present sessions internationally as well. She has served on numerous ALA committees within RUSA (including editor of the RUSA Update and director-at-large) and the ACRL Instruction Section (including secretary and chair), contributing to the Model Statement of Objectives (1984-1987), the Guidelines for Bibliographic Instruction (1994-96), and its review (2008-2009), and the Assessment of Information Environment (2004-2006). She received the RUSA Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award in 1998 and the ACRL Instruction Section Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award in 2010. She co-edited the Information Literacy column in RUSQ with Lori Arp from 2002-2009, and has served on the editorial boards of Research Strategies (2001-2006), Communications in Information Literacy (2007-2009) and Practical Academic Librarianship (2010). She has published both on reference and instruction topics. Beth holds a B.A. in English from Illinois Wesleyan University, and an M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.