On December 15, 2004, Dean Charles Kratz announced that six University of Scranton professors had been awarded Information Literacy Stipends to help them integrate student learning outcomes on information literacy in their courses.

By accepting the stipend the professor has agreed to:

• Collaborate with a librarian on this project.
• Develop student learning outcome(s) on information literacy
• Complete the project within 12 months.
• Provide the Library Advisory Committee with a written report at the end of the project.
• Participate in a panel discussion (to be scheduled at a later time) with the other recipients.

Biology 255: Animal Nutrition and Metabolism

Students in Biol. 255, Animal Nutrition and Metabolism, taught by Professor Gary Kwiecinski, are learning that scientific information (specifically nutritional) exists in a variety of types and formats. Potential sources for acquiring nutrition literature are numerous. Students will be producing a topic paper that summarizes current knowledge on a specific nutrient or a nutrition-related topic. They will be learning how to differentiate between primary and secondary sources and how to synthesize summaries from raw data in primary sources into a concise summary.
Coordinating Librarian is Mary Elizabeth Moylan, Associate Professor           Click here to read the final report.

Biology 273: Marine ecology

Students in Marine Ecology (Biol. 273), taught by Professor Janice Voltzow will be expanding their skills in information literacy through three writing exercises. The first focuses on avoiding plagiarism and uses examples to help students critically read a scientific paper and summarize it in their own words. The second exercise helps students assess the value and appropriateness of sources by comparing a pair of articles on a similar topic, one from a peer-reviewed scientific journal and another from a non-peer-reviewed magazine or website. In the third exercise, students will apply these skills to evaluate the current state of marine fisheries and aquaculture. Each student will select one species for which there is a significant marine fishery or aquaculture market and will research and write a paper to assess the resources available about that fishery, the reliability and usefulness of those resources, and a critical assessment of the fishery itself.
Coordinating Librarian is Katie S. Duke, Associate Professor                         Click here to read the final report.

Chem100: Elements of Chemistry

Students in this class, taught by Jennifer Tripp, Assistant Professor, will be working in pairs and will be looking online at science articles published in the New York Times. From there they will be locating the original research articles mentioned in the New York Times and answering a series of questions. The goal of this activity is to accomplish the information literacy goal of showing the students how to access original research online and in the library, and how to critically evaluate of the quality of science information they read in the news.  They can hopefully apply this to their research papers that are due in mid-March.  It will also give them an example of the scientific method in action.
Coordinating Librarian is Katie S. Duke, Associate Professor                          Click here to read the final report.

Education 340: Reading in the Secondary School

The students in EDUC 340, Reading in the Secondary Schools course, taught by Dr. Patricia Gross, Associate Professor, are examining the wide range of literacy they will employ in teaching across academic disciplines.  They will practice how to search, access, and evaluate information effectively so that they will be able to teach these skills to their future students.  They will write annotated bibliographies of the sources they use and present findings to the class.
Coordinating Librarian is Mary Elizabeth Moylan, Associate Professor                Click here to read the final report.

Nursing 373: Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family

Nursing 373, Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family, taught by Professor Marian Farrell, is currently running in the spring 2005 semester. Case management is a collaborative process that includes assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of health care services. The purpose of the writing assignment is to increase students' knowledge of the health care needs of pregnant women and to connect them to community resources and services by using a case management model of care. In addition, students will also demonstrate increased information literacy skills. Students will complete the writing assignment. The completed assignment will be submitted in an electronic format. All of the electronic assignments will be submitted to Turnitin.com prior to a final grade.
Coordinating Librarian is Katie S. Duke, Associate Professor                               Click here to read the final report.

Sociology 110: Introductory to Sociology

Harry Dammer, Associate Professor, plans to design a self-administered tutorial, incorporating information literacy skills, for all students taking the Introductory Sociology Course (SOC 110) and the Introductory Criminal Justice course (CJ 110. The design for the project will be completed during the summer of 2005 for implementation during fall 2005 courses.
Coordinating Librarian is Clara Hudson, Assistant Professor                                 Click here to read the final report.