In the process of elucidating Spencer’s First Principles and the cosmic theory of evolution, it has proved helpful already to touch on his treatment of social life in that general context. It is essential now, however, to address the theory as manifested in respect of ‘psychical’ and ‘social’ evolution, themselves intimately linked in his discussions.

Mind and Society

Arthur Chickering is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Memphis State University. On leave from the Directorship of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Memphis State, he is Visiting Professor at George Mason University. Zelda Gamson is a sociologist who holds appointments at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Faculty Inventory. Institutional Inventory.

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Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education--A Critique.

This study broadly examines factors impacting work-life experiences of library faculty of color within the framework of tenure policies and processes. An online survey was sent out to academic librarians of color to gauge perceptions of tenure and promotion policies and processes, professional activities and productivity, organizational climate and culture, and job satisfaction and retention. Results of the survey showed mixed findings regarding the impact of race on the tenure and promotion process. Findings can be used to inform future discussions of recruitment and retention for academic librarians of color and to improve the overall tenure experience.

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Tenure and Promotion Experiences of Academic Librarians of Color.

Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is driven by advertising. American higher education unwittingly fosters the use of search engines in research by emphasizing results rather than process. Academic librarians emulate teaching faculty in their reliance on lectures, and their course-related instruction is limited in its effectiveness because it is constrained to one-shot, lecture-driven sessions. A more effective way to teach research is to collaborate with faculty via problem-based and project-oriented learning tasks that incorporate authentic discipline-specific information finding and critical thinking into assignments.

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“Google Reigns Triumphant”?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative, Situated Information Literacy Instruction

Introduction I. Appointment II. Promotion in academic rank III. Tenure (Continuous Appointment) IV. Termination of appointments V. Grievance VI. Dismissal procedures VII. Action by the institutional governing board VIII. Procedures for imposition of sanctions other than dismissal IX. Terminal salary or notice X. Academic freedom and protection against discrimination XI. Complaints of violation of academic freedom or of discrimination in nonreappointment XII. Administrative personnel Notes

"A Guideline for the Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure of Academic Librarians"

This paper describes the South Dakota state universities' development of a dual-measure instrument to test Information Literacy (IL) following the Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and using classical and modern psychometric methods. This tool can be used as an exit assessment for undergraduates and as an entrance assessment for advanced learners to indicate deficiencies in IL that must be addressed early in graduate education.

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The South Dakota Information Literacy Exam : A Tool for Small and Medium-sized Universities to Document and Assess Information Literacy of Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Since their development in 2007, LibGuides have captured the attention and the imagination of the academic library world, at least in the United States. The 2009 ACRL national conference saw crowded panel, roundtable, Cyber Zed Shed, poster, and contributedpaper presentations on the reception and use of LibGuides by libraries, librarians, and their constituents. Reactions to LibGuides were so positive that an ACRL blogger compared participation in the sessions to “being inducted into a cult.”1 By the 2011 ACRL conference, LibGuides had so thoroughly taken root in the library landscape that only one presentation, which described an attempt to replace LibGuides with free, open-source alternatives, dealt with the product.2 LibGuides seem to be here to stay. As of this writing the LibGuide parent company, Springshare, has “3,856 sites live, and 53,800 librarian accounts. There are 319,000 published guides and currently [Springshare is] averaging about 100 million page views per month by 5.25M monthly visitors.”3 LibGuides are the Web 2.0 development of subject guides that began as paper Pathfinders in the 1970s. Like Pathfinders, LibGuides offer learners state-ofthe-art introductions to research resources. Like Pathfinders and their progeny, web subject guides, LibGuides present workload problems for librarians who seek to increase the use of guides in order to justify the time and effort required to create and maintain them.4 Current research on library tools and information systems views them as texts that communicate with users.5 LibGuides are created to communicate with learners, who in turn derive content from LibGuides; therefore, communicative principles are involved in both their creation and use. This article describes the application of communication-by-design principles to the creation and upkeep of LibGuides in order to address problems inherent in subject guides. First, the authors trace the history of LibGuides and focus on issues of workload and use inherent in such guides. Second, they examine the affordances and constraints in networking LibGuides for efficient creation and maintenance. Third, they provide a vocabulary that both renders the implicit communicative aspects of LibGuide creation visible while encouraging overt deliberative activity as part of the processes of the creation and organization of LibGuides.

Carol A. Leibiger

Papers

“Google Reigns Triumphant”?: Stemming the Tide of Googlitis via Collaborative, Situated Information Literacy Instruction

"A Guideline for the Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure of Academic Librarians"

The South Dakota Information Literacy Exam : A Tool for Small and Medium-sized Universities to Document and Assess Information Literacy of Undergraduate and Graduate Students

"The Mother of All LibGuides": Applying Principles of Communication and Network Theory in LibGuide Design

The South Dakota Information Literacy Exam: A Tool for Small- and Medium-Sized Universities to Document and Assess Information Literacy