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Title: Using Libguides to Enhance Library Services: A Lita Guide
Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1555708803
ISBN 13: 9781555708801
Binding: paperback
Condition: Near Fine
Weight: 0.95 pounds

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Synopsis

The easy-to-use tools in Springshare's LibGuides help you organize web pages, improve students' research experience and learning, and offer an online community of librarians sharing their work and ideas. Editors Dobbs, Sittler, and Cook have recruited expert contributors to address specific applications, creating a one-stop reference. Readers will be able to create subject guides that achieve the full potential of LibGuides with advice on such topics as: Learning from the best-a showcase of 28 LibGuides with exceptional design and pedagogy Collaborating with faculty to embed LibGuides in course management systems Creating a customized look to your LibGuides with design flair and enhanced functionality Getting ready for smart-phone users with a plan for the mobile web Setting up Google Analytics on a LibGuide site Teaching with LibGuides

About the Author

Aaron W. Dobbs is systems and electronic resources librarian and assistant professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He received his master s degree in management from Austin Peay State University and his MSLS from the University of Tennessee. Dobbs is heavily involved in the American Library Association as councilor-at-large on the ALA Council, chair of the ALA Website Advisory Committee, and as an ACRL legislative advocate. His current professional interest is in creating student-centered library websites, particularly with LibGuides.

Ryan L. Sittler is the instructional technology/information literacy librarian at California University of Pennsylvania. Ryan holds an MLS from Clarion University, an MSIT from Bloomsburg University, and is ABD in communications media and instructional technology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Sittler has coedited two other books with Doug Cook: Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors (2008) and The Library Instruction Cookbook (2009). He is also part of a team that developed the educational information literacy game A Planet in Peril: Plagiarism, which won the Caspian Learning 2010 Serious Games Challenge.

Doug Cook is an instruction librarian and professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.He received his MLS from the University of Maryland and DEd from Pennsylvania State University. He has recently coedited five books: with Tasha Cooper, Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Science Students and Practioners (2006); with Ryan Sittler, Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors (2008) and The Library Instruction Cookbook (2009); with Lesley Farmer, Using Qualitative Methods in Action Research (2011); and a children s book with Carolyn Cook, A Hike on the Appalachian Trail (2010). His current research interests are web-centered pedagogy and real-world definitions of information literacy.

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