Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

LSTA Grant - 2008-2012

What's New

PILR - Precollege Information Literacy Research

This project seeks to explore the benefits of collaboration and instruction for English as a Second Langauge, Adult Basic Education, and Developmental Education students. Starting winter 2010, librarians are teaming up with precollege faculty to develop  and deliver assignments. read more...

Activities for 2009-2010

1. PILR: Pre-college Information Literacy Research

• Focused Research Group met early October
• Seeking 2-3 sites for winter 2010; add 2-3 in spring
• Shared rubric for IL and pre-college
• RFP available now - Intent to apply: Nov. 25; proposal due December 4, 2009

2. Continued Mini-Grants for winter and spring 2010 (precollege encouraged but open to all subject areas)

3. Pre-College/Information Literacy Literature Review - application due December 4, 2009.

          Preliminary Bibliography

4. Summer Workshop: Emerging Pedagogies & Technology

2008-09 Summary

Share - Contribute to a collection of resources from our efforts:

• IL Standards - (Your library's IL  outcomes or adaptations of ACRL's IL  standards)
• Sample IL Assignments
• Basic Skills and Dev Ed Repository
• Research Team Bibliography 

About the LSTA Grant

The LMDC has received LSTA funding to continue IL activities from 2008-2012. Washington State community and technical college libraries who have agreed to participate will engage in the following activities:

1. Continuing the assessment work started in grant #1.
2. Furthering the Rising Junior discussions with the baccalaureate institutions.
3. Conducting research and designing best practices that determine the library and the librarians’ contributions to Basic Skills student achievement. (Developmental Education, ESL, and ABE).
4. Developing methods and models for leading and implementing process-based pedagogies on our campuses (Inquiry-based learning, Problem-based learning, Resource-based learning, etc. )

Participating Colleges 2008-2012 & Grant Summary

This Wiki supports the work of an LSTA Grant for "Information Literacy in Washington Community and Technical Colleges". This is a resource for us to post materials that we are working on in order to have an open, online, and collaborative clearinghouse.