| Some CSU faculty members have expressed
concerns about the Information Competence initiative.
They view Information Competence as being taught in lower
division English and speech courses. They feel that their
disciplines are unique and require more specialized and
sophisticated information skills than are outlined in the
10 information competencies. One of the goals of the
Proposal is to identify specific information competencies
within the applied majors offered at Cal Poly San Luis
Obispo and Cal Poly Pomona. This includes all majors
within the following colleges and schools: Agriculture,
Architecture, Business, Engineering, and Sciences. Cal
State Fullerton will also participate in this part of the
project in the areas of Science and Business.
Steps in Gathering Specific Information Competencies
1. Librarians Role
Librarians have a great deal of experience and
background for initially identifying information
competencies within these applied areas. Our
participation in reference work, bibliographic
instruction, faculty contact and outreach, and
collection development give us a rich background to
start gathering data on this project.
At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, reference librarians
responsible for these applied disciplines and a
librarian from the Government Documents Department
met to draw upon their experience to begin
identifying specific competencies.
Connect
to our initial findings
Librarians from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State
Fullerton will be asked to go through the same
process and the results of their work will be added
to this page.
2. Faculty Role
Once the librarians at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,
Cal Poly Pomona, and CSU Fullerton have collaborated,
an Information Competence list for each discipline
will be developed.
Each teaching faculty member who attended the
Information Competence Conference in Long Beach will
be contacted and asked to review the
discipline-specific lists and identify additional
competencies. The CSU input form available at this
site will be used to forward their suggestions.
Librarians from the two Cal Poly campuses and CSU
Fullerton will contact faculty members, present the
Information Competence lists and solicit further
suggestions (by personal contact and/or
questionnaire).
3. The Results
The results will provide an avenue for future
collaborative projects between faculty members and
librarians that could lead to new services and
instructional programs.
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