Library Service and Learning : Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility, and Building Community Connections

McDevitt, Theresa (EDT); Finegan, Caleb P. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0838946097 / ISBN 13: 9780838946091

Published by Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Library Service and Learning : Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility, and Building Community Connections
• Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838946097
• ISBN 13: 9780838946091
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Librarians, university faculty, and students share stories of employing service-based or experiential learning experiences for students in higher education. They cover library and information literacy credit-bearing courses or sponsors of undergraduate community-based research, library support for courses with applied service-based projects in the disciplines, and the library as location for student-led educational outreach events and projects. Among specific topics are using service-learning experiences to engage students in information literacy classes, support for student-driven projects: library mini-grants and service learning, integrating library research and information literacy into archaeological service-learning, banned books and dangerous fictions: co-creating an annual banned books read out, and the ABCs of nutrition and literacy: combining children's books with health awareness in an academic service-learning project. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About the Author

Theresa McDevitt is the government information/outreach librarian at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she has served since 1986. She has taught a one-credit information literacy course with a service-learning element for the last five years. She is a co-director of the universities' Reflective Practice faculty development group and has an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in American history from Kent State University. </div> </div> Caleb P. Finegan earned his BA (Spanish, 1988) and MA (Latin American Studies, 1993) from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. In 1999, he graduated with a doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Florida with a concentration in colonial Latin American history. Dr. Finegan currently teaches courses (sometimes in honors) in Latin American history. He has been the Director of IUP's Robert E. Cook Honors College since 2014. From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Finegan also worked as the university's director of civic engagement and student leadership activities.