San José
Susan Klingberg
A valuable resource for facilitating academic success at two- and four-year colleges in California
Are students able to solve information problems using credible and relevant information? Most faculty would respond in the negative. San José State University library faculty member Susan Klingberg is seeking solutions to this dilemma with the development of the Checklist of Information Competencies for College Students, an intersegmental resource that identifies the core information competencies students need for academic success. The Checklist was developed by a team of librarians from the CSU and the California Community Colleges. Contributors included Pam Baker at CSU Monterey Bay, Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer at City College of San Francisco, and Topsey Smalley at Cabrillo College. The late Ilene Rockman in the CSU Chancellor's Office served as a consultant. In January 2007, it received formal endorsement by the California Community Colleges System's Council of Chief Librarians.
Susan organized a program on the Checklist at the 2006 Loex of the West conference and in March 2007 at a California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL)-sponsored conference. She published an article for Reference Services Review (Vol. 34, no. 4, 2006) detailing the process for developing the Checklist titled "Information Competencies Checklist: a Resource for Inter-segmental Collaboration. "The originality of the project," notes Susan, "is its collaborative nature and its success in advancing inter-segmental cooperation in California public higher education" (2006).
Information Competencies Checklist » (.doc)
Mengxiong Liu
Fulbright Senior Specialists Awardee
Dr. Mengxiong Liu, Engineering Librarian and Professor of Library and Information Science at San José State University was selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project in Uruguay at the Latin American Center for Human Economy (CLAEH) and the British Schools in November 2007.
"Dr. Liu will advise, recommend and evaluate the design and structure of the postgraduate degree in management of digital resources at CLAEH, and the information literacy program at the British Schools. She will also give seminars on topics focusing on digital librarians and information literacy to an audience of postgraduate students, librarians, information technology specialists, and educators at the secondary and tertiary level within the community." (Fulbright press release, 4/5/07)
