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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ACRL is excited to
announce
registration for upcoming eLearning events! Space is limited, so
reserve
your seat today!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">The Role of the Librarian
in Combating Student Plagiarism<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Format: 90 Minute Webcast<br>
Date: September 23, 2008 – 11 A.M. Pacific | 12:00 P.M. Mountain | 1:00
P.M. Central | 2:00 P.M. Eastern<o:p></o:p><br>
Presenter: Lynn Lampert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Description<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like other educators,
librarians are aware of the growing instances of student plagiarism and
academic dishonesty that take place on college campuses. Librarians
frequently
anecdotally discuss discipline faculty’s revulsion toward the growth of
student plagiarism that has seemingly grown in tandem with our
society’s
dependence on digital texts found on the Internet. We acknowledge that
this
problem is often an effective hook to convince reluctant faculty to
bring
students into the library for instruction. However once we get these
professors and students into our library classrooms, we typically have
a hard
time presenting curricular content that focuses on anti-plagiarism
student
learning outcomes and/or developing additional outreach techniques that
can be
included in information literacy outreach and instruction to both
faculty and
students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p>For more
information on this
event as well as registration, please visit the event page at <a
href="http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/plagiarism.cfm">http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/plagiarism.cfm</a>.
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today!<o:p><br>
</o:p><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Introduction to Website
Usability</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p><br>
Format: ACRL Online Seminar<o:p></o:p><br>
Dates: October 6-24, 2008 <o:p></o:p><br>
Presenter: Nora Dimmock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;">Description:</span></strong><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For very little investment in
staff
hours and training you can reap tremendous benefits by connecting with
the
users of your library website and web based applications through
usability
testing. This three-week course is designed for the librarian or
library IT
staff person who is interested in setting up a usability program but
doesn’t
know where to begin. Through a combination of reading assignments,
online
discussions, and hands-on activities, students will:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;">· Deepen their
understanding of the value of usability testing when developing new
web-based
systems and services for their library. <o:p></o:p><br>
· Develop a test
protocol that meets their institutions requirements for research
studies
involving human subjects testing. <o:p></o:p><br>
· Devise a
strategy for recruiting test subjects from different user groups. <o:p></o:p><br>
· Learn the
most commonly used types of tests and where they fit into the iterative
design
cycle.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more
information on this
event as well as registration, please visit the event page at <a
href="http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/Website_Usability.cfm">http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/Website_Usability.cfm</a>.
Registration for this event is limited, so reserve your seat today!.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">* Webcasts take
place in an
interactive, online classroom environment with one user/one login. <b>If
you
select the group rate, one person must register, login, and keyboard
during the
event.</b> A group registration allows an institution to project the
Webcast to
participants in the same location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p>Questions?
Please
contact Jon Stahler at <a href="mailto:jstahler@ala.org">jstahler@ala.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">********<o:p></o:p></span><br>
ACRL is a division of the
American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000
academic and
research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only
individual
membership organization in North America that develops programs,
products and
services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians.
Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the
role
that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research
environments.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
FYI, Robin<br>
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<img alt="Portland State University logo"
src="cid:part1.01010203.07040205@pdx.edu" align="left" height="35"
width="165"><br>
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<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b>Robin
Paynter</b><br>
Social Sciences Librarian<br>
220D Library<br>
Portland State University<br>
<br>
503.725.4501<br>
503.725.4524<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paynter@pdx.edu">paynter@pdx.edu</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html">http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html</a>
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<br>
“The fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has
produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history.” –
Marcus Breen (1997)</p>
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