Washington State Community and Technical Colleges

LSTA Grant - 2008-2012

2011-2012 Activities

1. Fall Workshop - Friday, November 18, 2011 - Highline CC - Presentations and Links from the workshop are posted.
2. Mini-Grants - for winter & spring - Additional funds available through January 13, 2012
3. PILR (Pre-college Information Literacy)
   
4. Share Your Information Literacy Plan - please post to your college's page.

2010-2011 Activities

1. Dipping into ACRL Immersion
2. Copyright Instruction Suite - available now (email Lynn to request files)
3. Rising Junior IL Outcomes - available now

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

• IL Standards - (Your library's IL  outcomes or adaptations of ACRL's IL  standards)
• 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

• 2008-2009 Summary/Report

• 2009-2010 Summary/Report

• 2010-2011 Summary/Report

*Activities are contingent upon continued LSTA funding provided through the State Library.

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.