Libraries exist to serve both the research and instructional missions of their institutions. Supporting the thesis experience of an honors program represents the perfect convergence of these dual mlSSlOns. The pedagogical mandate for the honors thesis experience is found in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education, which calls for undergraduate research experiences ...

We present the emerging discipline of Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM), which studies the possibility of computer-supporting and even automating the representation, cataloguing, retrieval, refactoring, plausibilization, change propagation and in some cases even application of mathematical knowledge. We focus on theory graph technology here, which supports modular and thus space-efficient...

Research questions: What are the current conceptualizations of health literacy, and what strategies are Canadian health librarians in public, academic, and hospital libraries enacting to put health literacy promotion into practice? Data sources: Serving as the basis of this scoping review, library and information science, health sciences, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using key ...

In the Fall Semester of 2003, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at Arizona State University, for the first time, offered freshmen the opportunity to participate in a Learning Community. Although there are several types of learning communities, the CLAS Learning Communities at ASU utilize a fully integrated model and each community is based on a theme integrating several discipline...

An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the validity of a journal selection and ranking algorithm designed for any discipline. The characteristics of the journal generation procedure incorporate both cited and citing journals so that basic scientific research journals contributing to the research foundation of the discipline, as well as journals in the discipline, might be identified. A Disc...

Information literacy is a crucial skill for nurses to retrieve, judge, and provide appropriate information to patients and their caregivers. This study aimed to develop a blended course to cultivate nursing students’ informatics competency. This was a three-semester study including a development of the course, pilot-test and modification of the course design, and final implementation of the mod...

The environment in which nurses and rehabilitation therapists practice is rapidly evolving, resulting in changes in the skill sets and competencies required of new graduates. Evidence-based practice models, for example, require that entry-level nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists have the ability to identify, locate, and critically appraise research findings. This paper wil...

Terminology development for a scientific discipline is an essential prerequisite for education in the chosen language. The young disciplines of Computer Science and Information Technology are lagging behind in this respect for many non-English languages. Between the few resources for isiZulu that exist, isiZulu computer literacy terms often differ. This suggests that any resultant terminology i...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an information literacy module for first semester undergraduate students at Loughborough University. These students were taking Information Management and either Business Studies or Computing, or a degree in Publishing with English or Publishing with Ebusiness or Web Development and Design. The purpose of the module was to enable them to wor...