Notes From the Units   (cont.)


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Technical Services Department

by Prof. Carol Probeyahn

There are two new librarians in the Technical Services Department, Jung Cho, Substitute Cataloging Librarian, and Carol Probeyahn, Substitute Collection Development Librarian. Jung comes to us with CUNY experience, having worked at both City College and 		Queensborough Community College. Carol worked in the public library system in Nassau County, where she was the Director of the Farmindgdale Public Library.

Both Librarians work with the acquisitions of new materials, so if there are any titles that the library should own, please let them know, or contact your department's library liaison. (Information on p.3). We will do our best, subject to the materials budget, to satisfy your request.


ASK THE LIBRARIAN by Scott White

How can the Library support me on the Web?

by Scott White

As more faculty graduate the Designed for Learning Seminar, and more students are expected to complete course work in a web-integrated environment, the role Library Faculty play in the education process changes. We are asked more and more to conduct web evaluation classes in our Bibliographic Instruction program, and we refer students more frequently to electronic resources that support their research and learning needs. Librarians have been developing web pages for years, including placing library catalogs on the web and developing annotated web guides to help select verified, reviewed sources for students' research, because it makes our job easier. We'd like to do the same for you.

The first and easiest thing that the library can offer teaching faculty is the address to our web page, http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library. This web page is a gateway for access to the library catalog, full-text databases and annotated web guides developed by Library Faculty at LaGuardia. The Library's web page can be included as a link on your own course web page 		or BlackBoard site. Additionally, Library faculty can provide you with guides to web pages, annotated lists of web sites reviewed in magazines like Library Journal or Choice, and electronic bibliographies that can be converted to web pages for display on your course web site.

Faculty often feel overwhelmed by the amount of information and the technical skills necessary to incorporate web-based material into their curriculum. Much of the work has already been done, however, in the form of web guides and access to fists of annotated resources that can help your students evaluate information and make a judgment about what is good and bad material. We suggest the following steps to take full advantage of Library resources:
  • If you are working on a project, contact the Library Faculty member who is listed as your department's liaison on page 3 to discuss how we can help you create web-based content that is informative and helpful.

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