Libraries and graduate students
Subtitle: building connections
By: Gretta E. Siegel, editor.
Contributors: Siegel, Gretta E.
Publisher: Haworth Information Press; The Haworth Press Inc; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780789030542; 9780789034434
Subjects: Academic libraries -- Services to graduate students; Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
Other titles: Public services quarterly.
Description: This book gathers together a variety of perspectives and approaches toward building relationships between academic libraries and a unique scholarly population with specific needs -- graduate students. This valuable resource shows efforts on specific programs and strategies to enhance and enrich the graduate student experience. Contributions to this volume include a wide variety approaches though case studies, an extensive literature review on academic integrity, an initiative for program development in the context of a broader education initiative, and a chapter on graduate fellowships for manuscripts and special collections. Many of the approaches integrate tried and true information literacy strategies, but they also put unique spins on these approaches. This book's scope includes large and small colleges and universities, public and private, and specialized and general. Subjects include stand alone courses and workshops, program development, assessment, distance education, online environments, instructional design, and collaborations.
Notes: "Co-published simultaneously as Public services quarterly, volume 3, numbers 3/4 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Assessing research readiness of graduate students in distance programs / Paul R. Pival, Jennifer V. Lock, Maureen Hunter; title: Associated Canadian Theological Schools : building an online graduate information literacy course without a blueprint / William Badke; title: Library as laboratory : online pathfinders and the humanities graduate student / Sara Harrington; title: Ice cream seminars for graduate students : imparting chemical information literacy / Jeremy R. Garritano; title: Information literacy for advanced users : a German perspective / Oliver Kohl-Frey; title: InfoIQ : targeting information and technology life long needs / Jason L. Frand, Eloisa Gomez Borah, Aura Lippincott; title: A library research course for graduate and professional students in communication sciences & disorders / Sylvia G. Tag; title: The literature on academic integrity and graduate students : issues, solutions, and the case for a librarian role / Patti Schifter Caravello; title: Integrating information literacy into the graduate liberal arts curriculum : a faculty-librarian collaborative course model / Judy Xiao, David Traboulay; title: The influence of rare book and manuscript repositories on graduate research in the humanities : the graduate research fellowship program / Kathryn James.