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CN Service-Learning in Library & Info Science

CN Service-Learning in Library & Info Science. Ann Peterson Bishop Grad School of Library & Info Sci University of Illinois. Presentation Purpose. What’s going on in LIS Examples and models of CN service-learning Introduce AFCN service-learning opportunities

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CN Service-Learning in Library & Info Science

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  1. CN Service-LearninginLibrary & Info Science Ann Peterson Bishop Grad School of Library & Info Sci University of Illinois

  2. Presentation Purpose • What’s going on in LIS • Examples and models of CN service-learning • Introduce AFCN service-learning opportunities • Think of LIS as a resource, partner, degree, career, source of employees • Stimulate discussion of issues and lessons learned

  3. http://www.servicelearning.org/ Service-learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content.

  4. Why Library & Info Science? • Funding! (IMLS, TOP, NSF, Kellogg) • Communication and collaboration software development, user studies, evaluation • Technology implementation • Information organization and access • Research and present information • Policy issues: privacy, equity • ICT literacy and training • Service orientation

  5. University of Illinois GSLIS • Community Inquiry Track: Inquiry-Based Learning, Pragmatic Tech, Community Informatics, Participatory Action Research, Social Justice Digital East St. Louis Prairienet Paseo Boricua Community Library Project SisterNet

  6. UMich School of Information • Community Information Corps http://www.si.umich.edu/cic/ Connect day-to-day grassroots activities with big ideas about citizenship, opportunity, and the public good in an information society • Community Information Fellows Program Financial assistance and professional development opportunities to graduates who pursue public interest careers. Salary supplements are also available for public interest summer internships

  7. UMich School of Information • Joan Durrance Founding AFCN Board member. Teaching and research in community info systems and libraries • Paul Resnick Social capital and neighborhood technology

  8. UMich School of Information Community Connector Searchable library of useful information available to librarians and others who are attempting to build and improve the quality of life within geographic communities How Libraries Help Outcome evaluation study and toolkit for online community information and technology

  9. UMich School of Information • Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio." Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society. Doug Schuler and Peter Day, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. • Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams, "Social Capital and Cyberpower in the African American Community: A Case Study of a Community Technology Center in the Dual City." Community Informatics: Shaping Computer Mediated Social Relations. Leigh Keeble and Brian Loader, eds. London: Routledge, 2001. http://www.communitytechnology.org/cyberpower/

  10. UT AustinSchool of Information • Telecommunications and Info Policy Institute -- research and service projects with local ISPs, libraries, community centers, and State agencies • Ron Wyllys and Philip Doty: courses, independent studies, practica, volunteers work with AFN and MAIN

  11. UT AustinSchool of Information • Systems Analysis: MAIN as client • Info Networks: broadband service analysis for Greater Austin agency cooperative (fire, police, environmental, educational) • Loriene Roy: literacy programs, online course delivery, digital library, virtual Museum of the American Indian for Smithsonian

  12. AFCN Student Intern Opportunitieshttp://www.afcn.org • Newsletter -- Highlight expertise, best resources • Info guides on CN topics and issues • Searchable catalog of communityware applications with real examples of their use • Reviews of literature and research

  13. Issues and Lessons • Recognizing mutual learning • “Small wins” - The realities of community organizing and action • Community commitment = Emotional involvement • Accommodating university structures (class workload, recognition, timetable, etc.)

  14. Contact Information Ann Bishop abishop@uiuc.edu Andre Brock albrock@uiuc.edu

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