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  Libraries, Information Literacy, Financial Literacy and IDA's (Individual Development Accounts)

  Dr. Biden, because you are an advocate for community colleges and an English instructor, I know you will understand my interest in teaching information literacy to students. Last October, I reread ACRL's Best Practices on Information Literacy . At that moment, I realized our librarian's classroom instruction on information literacy needed to be relevant to our students' everyday lives, a what's-in-it-for-me scenario, ...more »

  Dr. Biden, because you are an advocate for community colleges and an English instructor, I know you will understand my interest in teaching information literacy to students. Last October, I reread ACRL's Best Practices on Information Literacy . At that moment, I realized our librarian's classroom instruction on information literacy needed to be relevant to our students' everyday lives, a what's-in-it-for-me scenario, e.g. essential information you need to know when buying a car to commute to school, researching the best cell phone plan, or the importance of your credit score. it's the same research process, realizing you need information, knowing where to look for reliable, credible information, and using it ethically.

  I believe information literacy and financial literacy are intuitively linked. I have championed blending information literacy and financial literacy at my community college. Through my efforts, financial literacy is now an element of our Strategic Plan 2010-2015, Shift to an emphasis on student completion. I have informed students, faculty, and advisors about the under utilized Individual Development Accounts, (IDA). "An IDA is a bundled financial tool that includes matched savings accounts, financial education, case management, and counseling. Through the Assets for Independence Act, the federal government provides grants to encourage nonprofit organizations to offer IDA's. The accounts can be used for postsecondary education. The federal policy has been in place for over a decade, but few colleges offer IDA's or work with other nonprofit entites to do so, As a result, the postsecondary option remains underused".

  I firmly believe merging information and financial literacy and increasing awareness about IDA's is one of the answers to increasing retention rates at community colleges. Thank you.

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  Evolve!

  We have to evolve as our students do, and find ways to go to them if they don't come to us. Currently, students show up with little or no knowledge about doing library research, especially the non traditional students. We are working closely with our Student Success Center (tutoring, etc.) in order to provide a "one-stop shop"/learning commons service as we evolve to serve our students better. We're all about student ...more »

  We have to evolve as our students do, and find ways to go to them if they don't come to us. Currently, students show up with little or no knowledge about doing library research, especially the non traditional students. We are working closely with our Student Success Center (tutoring, etc.) in order to provide a "one-stop shop"/learning commons service as we evolve to serve our students better. We're all about student learning and less about "protecting the collection." We are trying to find a way to work more closely with area school districts (where librarians and library budgets have been cut) to ensure that their students develop information literacy skills before arriving at college. We try to work closely with our instructors as well, and would love it if information literacy could be built into each curriculum so that library staff could dispense with the basics and be able to take the students farther on their journeys.

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  Librarians

  Like community colleges, public high schools provide an insufficient number of librarians. If we want our population to be information literate, we need to hire more librarians across the board. If we truly live in an information age, we need information professionals; we need librarians, and we need lots of them. One librarian is not enough at a community college.

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  Information Literacy Requirement

  Require a unit on Information Literacy for graduation from all community colleges, covering how to find accurate, objective and timely printed, digital and online information.

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  focus more on technology assessments

  CC need to focus more on ensuring students have the technical skills needed - not only when they leave the CC environment, but perhaps more importantly, when they enter the CC environment. If they do not have the technical skills needed to succeed in their classes, they will forever be behind. Unfortunately, many instructors/admin ignore this important step and instead "dumb" down the technology level or remove it completely ...more »

  CC need to focus more on ensuring students have the technical skills needed - not only when they leave the CC environment, but perhaps more importantly, when they enter the CC environment. If they do not have the technical skills needed to succeed in their classes, they will forever be behind. Unfortunately, many instructors/admin ignore this important step and instead "dumb" down the technology level or remove it completely believing that focusing on the concepts on the class are the ONLY thing the students need to focus on. However, while the students may have concepts, they cannot move forward to a 4 yr school or into the private sector successfully without the technical skills to communicate those thoughts. Forcing them to take another class is not the answer. They need on-demand assistance.

  This lack of technological skills greatly affects not only their being able to do their work well (they tend to focus more on the technical and not the content) but as libraries are trying to increase information literacy for lifelong learning, again, more time is spent on basic technology skills than on learning. (Note: when I say technical skills I am talking about basic word processing, research/search skills, etc - maybe even using a mouse or accessing their email. Online entertainment skills very rarely transfer to the educational arena.)

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