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American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy (1989) A Progress Report on Information Literacy: Final Report. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm

Association of College and Research Libraries, (2000) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm

Bazillion, Richard J. and Braun, C. (1995) Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways: A Guide to Design and Space Decisions. Chicago: American Library Association

Beagle, Donald Robert (2006) The Information Commons Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman

Dupuis, Elizabeth, Robinson, Victoria and Schrager, Cynthia. "A Case Study: Creating a Culture of Collaboration at the University of California, Berkeley," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke, “Library as Learning Space and Place” Reinvention Center Conference (2006) http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/lisahinchliffe/summary.htm

Leighton, Philip D. and David C. Weber (1999/2000) Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings. Chicago: American Library Association

Walter, Scott and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (2005) Instructional Improvement Programs (SPEC Kit No. 287).Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries

 

 
  Exemplary Programs and Practices  
 

InfoIsland.org: An alliance of library services being offered through the online, 3-D virtual reality space, SecondLife:
http://infoisland.org/
http://secondlife.com/

Informational literacy: represent “generations” of an information literacy tutorial being developed through collaborative librarian work across the United States.

University of Texas http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/ ,

University of Western Michigan, http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/ ,

and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis http://inflite.ulib.iupui.edu/  

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, University of California, Berkeley: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/researchprize/index.html

The Library Award for Undergraduate Research, University of Washington: http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/

The Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship on Undergraduate Research, University of California, Berkeley: Encourages faculty to integrate research skills into the classroom and the curriculum. http://library.berkeley.edu/MellonInstitute/Mellon_Partners.htm. For a photo and video archive of this program visit http://library.berkeley.edu/MellonInstitute/photos.html

Northwestern University, Information Commons http://infocommons.northwestern.edu/home.html

Pedagogy of Place, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley: Provides an excellent example of how funds can be used to renovate space to attract potential funders and to support programs for undergraduate research http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2002/08/21_nudoe.html

Student Learning Center, University of Georgia: example of an innovative partnership between information technology, learning, and library services all co-located in a learning commons: http://www.slc.uga.edu/

The University of Illinois Library also includes a full suite of consultation services, including on-line chats with librarians and subject experts http://www.library.uiuc.edu/askus/  

University of Illinois, Undergrad Library uses MySpace to connect to students: http://myspace.com/undergradlibrary ;

 

 
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University of Minnesota includes a number of tools to support undergraduate research at their virtual library http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/; see, in particular, their Assignment Calculator that provides students with a time line of steps for completing research papers in a variety of disciplines http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/


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