Constantia Constantinou Library Director, Department Chair

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Information Literacy and the Maritime Curriculum
Constantia Constantinou Library Director,
Department Chair Shafeek FazalHead of Reference
User Services The Stephen B. Luce Library at
Fort Schuyler Maritime College, The State
University of New York Navigate Your Course
_at_Your Library
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The Chicken Was Involved
the Pig Was COMMITTED !!!
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• Admiral Stephen Bleecker Luce
• Strategy, Seamanship, Education, Professional
  Development
• Schoolship of Saint Marys (1876-1908) First
  Graduating Class 26 students
• SUNY Maritime College Mission
• Learning environment that stimulates
  intellectual growth, scholarship, and
  creativity.

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• Mission of Higher Education Institutions is to
  develop lifelong learners with the intellectual
  abilities of reasoning and critical thinking
• Information Literacy is a set of abilities
  requiring individuals to recognize when
  information is needed and have the ability to
  locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed
  information.
• Teaching Mission of the Luce Library is to create
  the learning environment for students to frame
  their questions to center their information
  inquiry in relation to their discipline-specific
  problem solving skills

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• The Demands of the Maritime Curriculum
• Luce Librarys Instructional Program
• Strategy
• Pedagogy
• Methodology
• Assessment

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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty

• Librarians as Subject Specialists
• Liaisons to Academic Departments
• Curriculum Committee Representation
• Freshman Orientation
• Distance Learning Committee

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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty
• Subject Specialists/ Department Liaisons

Subject Specialty
Ms. Constantia Constantinou Arts/ Sciences
Mr. Shafeek Fazal Engineering
Ms. Elizabeth Leschinsky Humanities
Ms. Lori Gluckman Sciences
Global Business and Transportation/ Graduate
Studies
Freshman Orientation
Humanities
Science
Department Liaison
Engineering
Marine Transportation
Naval Science and Sea Shanties
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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty
• Academic Departments Liaisons

Liaison Librarian
Presentations at department meetings
Meetings with teaching faculty on IL issues
Promote new and existing Library resources and
services
Syllabi analysis in relation to IL
Curricula development
Meet new faculty
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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty
• Librarians Active Role in Colleges Curriculum
  Committee

• Serves as voting member
• Collaborates with teaching faculty to identify
  the need for Library resources and
  IL sessions for new/revised courses

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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty
• Freshman Orientation LEAD 101 course
• (A Librarian serves as an instructor and as a
  member of the LEAD 101 group)

• Train instructors to teach IL
• Widespread introduction of IL skills to
  first-year students
• Lead 101 course beginning of sustained
  instruction in IL
• Involve more faculty in IL assessment

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• Librarian Faculty Teaching Faculty
• Distance Learning Committee

• Library Director serves as permanent member
• Venue to promote IL to distance learning students
  (Librarys online information literacy tutorial)
• More collaboration with faculty at the distance
  level (face to face or virtual)

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• Student Outreach Across All Levels

Library Orientations
General IL Sessions
Discipline-Specific IL Sessions
Graduate Level IL Sessions
IDO/MUGS Incoming Freshmen Incoming Graduate
Students
1st Year Introductory English, History, Science,
Engineering, Business
2nd, 3rd, 4th Years General Science, General
Engineering, Marine Biology, Oceanography,
Computer Science, Business Economics
Various Courses Thesis Research Capstone Project
RESEARCH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
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• Tutorials
• General Discipline-specific
• Course specific capstone course
• Exhibits awareness leads to research projects
• Online IL Module with multimedia tutorials

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• Learning Strategies

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• Learning Outcomes

• Requirements
• Accreditation (ABET, Middle States)
• SUNY Gen Ed (2-year cycle)

• Tools
• General Library Assignments
• Course Integrated Assignments

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• Overall Quantitative Program Assessment

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• Staying On Course
• with the Librarys Instructional Program the
  Ships Librarian conducts
• One-on-one and group/class IL sessions
• Research sessions on the information needs of
  all crew members

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• Looking Over the Horizon
• Increase assessment procedures (online pre-post
  tests, graduate level)
• Include pedagogical techniques targeting below
  average students
• Continue to expand outreach efforts

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Information Literacy and the Maritime
Curriculum http//www.sunymaritime.edu /StephenBl
uceLibrary/conferences.htm Constantia
Constantinou Shafeek Fazal The Stephen B.
Luce Library at Fort Schuyler Maritime College,
The State University of New York Navigate Your
Course _at_Your Library