College of DuPage Webcast Series

Date/Time:   Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Location:       Broome County Public Library, Binghamton, NY
Instructor:    Dr. Lisa Stock, College of DuPage
                    Dr. Jean Donham, University of Northern Iowa
Registration:  No charge but please register.
Bring your lunch and we will provide beverages and desserts.
Support:    This webcast is funded by the NYS Department of Library Development with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

REGISTRATION FORM

When President Barack Obama declared October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness Month, Information Literacy received national attention.  The declaration stated:  “In addition to the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, it is equally important that our students are given the tools required to take advantage of the information available to them.”  He asked “people of the United States to recognize the important role that information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact.”
In this context, Lisa Stock, Dean of Learning Resources at College of DuPage, and Jean Donham, College Librarian, Cornell College (Iowa) will give a background briefing on the working standards and assessments for national literacy and open a dialog on what librarians can do to strengthen efforts to encourage and build information literacy efforts not only in your own library, but in concert with your colleagues around the country.

Presenters:

Dr. Lisa Stock is Dean of Learning Resources at College of DuPage. She earned her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy at Iowa State University, where her research centered on information literacy education. In her previous position as Director of Learning Resources at Des Moines Area Community College, she established the DMACC Information Literacy Forum, an annual statewide event.
Dr. Jean Donham is the author of numerous articles and books, both scholarly and practical.  Her most recent book is Enhancing Teaching and Learning; A Leadership Guide for School Library Media Specialists, published by Neal Schuman in 2008.  She coauthored Inquiry-Based Learning: Lessons from Library Power with Kay Bishop, Carol Collier Kuhlthau, and Dianne Oberg in 2001.