Please join us in welcoming researcher and scholar Carolyn Clark, Baker's first Instruction Librarian. Carolyn comes to Baker from the Univ. of Virginia Law Library and formerly the Univ. of Kansas Law Library. Her education background includes an MLS from Emporia Univ., a J.D. from the Univ. of Kentucky, and a B.S. in Botany from the Univ. of Florida. Her academic pursuits focus on information access as it relates to the law, both from a historical and current perspective.
While Carolyn's professional life is anchored in scholarly research her top priority is her husband and two teenage sons. The decision to return to KS this year was one that best suited her family. Of the move she says, "We enjoy the Midwestern lifestyle and culture and think Douglas County is a great place to raise a family."
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BAKER READING SHELF:
Assistant Professor of Biology Erin Morris sent us her list for the Spring 2008 edition of Baker Reading Shelf. Thanks, Erin! Click here for a brief description of 5 books she recommends.
BAKER READING SHELF: STUDENT PICKS!
Baker University students are a busy lot, and the Collins Library student workers are no exception. However, many of them find time to fit leisure reading into their schedules. This semester, we asked some of our students what they were reading. Here's a select list.
PRESIDENTS' DISPLAY CASE FEATURES HISTORY OF MUSIC DEPARTMENT
The current display in the library highlights the history of the Music Department. Music has been part of the curriculum since Baker opened its doors and Mrs. Davis, wife of President Werter R. Davis, taught the first music classes (1858-62). There are photos of the homes the department has occupied from the Blue House, built in 1865 and outfitted with six pianos, to its current location in the Owens Musical Arts Building.
The centerpiece of the exhibit is the manuscript of the Baker fight song as arranged by Bill Thomson in the 1970's and rescued by Dr. JD Parr from an ebullient house-cleaning effort.
Other artifacts highlight memorable faculty members (Alfred Service, Alice Ann Callahan, & William Rice), notable alums (jazz singer Kevin Mahogany and music educator Wendy Valerio), and performing groups throughout the years.
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To help Baker students become successful users of information, the University hired its first instruction librarian, Carolyn Clark. Her responsibilities are to coordinate our efforts in meeting information literacy standards across the University and to provide additional instruction. The goals of this program are to:
Ensure that students can find, evaluate, and appropriately use the information resources at their disposal (one of the student learning outcomes of the College of Arts and Sciences).
Expand advanced, focused instruction for CAS students working in their major disciplines. These could be:
- specialized resources, such as discipline-specific databases, concordances or legislative histories
- tools, like citation management software or geographic information systems
- legal, ethical, and economic issues, like citing, open source publishing, copyright, licensing
Establish appropriate expectations for information literacy in the School of Nursing, the School of Education, and the School for Professional and Graduate Studies.
Expand assessment beyond our current efforts in the CAS.
Partner with faculty. Information literacy transcends knowing how to use libraries. For example, musicians have to be familiar with licensing requirements for performances, psychologists have to be aware of the issues surrounding human subjects research, and historians have to know how to handle, gain permissions, and cite primary source material. Our goal is to develop a workshop where librarians and faculty work together to understand information literacy as it applies to their disciplines and to effectively integrate it into the curriculum.
We are excited to have Carolyn as part of the library team, and look forward to working with faculty and students to generate new conversations about issues surrounding research today.
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