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This newsletter announces recent acquisitions of Myrin Library at Ursinus College and provides information and updates about recent projects, exhibits and events.

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Cambridge University Library is the recipient of a grant from the Arcadia Trust to investigate issues and challenges in delivering academic library services in the digital era. One project under this auspice has been IRIS...

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Overview of project design, methodology and execution for a 10-week research fellowship on information literacy.

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This handout was used as part of the instructional materials for the project.

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Social technologies such as weblogs, wikis, and social bookmarking are emerging both as information resources and as tools for research. This paper reflects on these technologies and suggests they may be well placed to build...

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This document is an appendix to the Final Performance Report for the IMLS Sparks Ignite IL Framework Cooperative project. It contains the four outcomes and the performance indicators for each outcome.

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"Libraries are a lot like sex." There just had to be a way, I kept telling myself as I watched somnambulant freshperson after somnambulant freshperson (is that what we're calling them now?) drag his or her soporific self into...

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This is a pdf file of the pre-test that was administered to students before they received any information literacy instruction. The pre-test contains all the questions that were in the post-test, plus several extra that were...

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This appendix to the Final Performance Report for the IMLS Sparks IL Cooperative Project grant is the report on the focus groups. The focus group research summarized herein represents a segment of the overall IMLS grant proposal...

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Social technologies such as weblogs, wikis, and social bookmarking are emerging both as information resources and as tools for research. This paper reflects on these technologies and suggests they may be well placed to build...

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This document shows the scaffolding used to develop the educational materials used for the instruction sessions.

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This is the narrative written for the IMLS Sparks IL Framework Cooperative Project grant proposal. Through a partnership of five institutions led by McDaniel College, including Goucher College, Ursinus College, Washington...

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This is the Final Performance Report for the SPARKS Ignite IL Framework Cooperative Project for At?Risk Student Success in Smaller Colleges. Through a partnership of five institutions led by McDaniel College, we developed new...

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