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News@LYON
December 10, 2007 |
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Lyon College to participate in 2008 workshop Lyon College has been selected as one of the participants in The Transformation of the College Library Workshop organized by the Council of Independent Colleges and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, with financial support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The workshop is also sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Council on Library and Information Resources. It will take place March 27-29, 2008, in Baltimore, Md. The team from Lyon who will attend the workshop will be Dean Covington, director of the Mabee-Simpson Library, Dr. John Peek, vice president for academic services, and Dr. Catherine Bordeau, associate professor of French. To assist with travel, hotel, and meal expenses for the workshop, CIC will provide Lyon with up to $1,100. The 2008 Transformation of the College Library Workshop will be the last in a series of workshops that began in 2002 that have focused on the dramatic changes now occurring in college libraries, according to the CIC website. Intended to help small and mid-sized colleges and universities deal successfully with those changes, this year's workshop will focus on information literacy as a fundamental element of liberal education and as a powerful instrument for the transformation of the library and its place in the academic life of the campus. With this focus, the workshop will address such critical issues as the role of the library in teaching and learning through collaboration between librarians and faculty members; the changing use and conception of the physical space of the library; the challenges of using technology in improving students' learning; implementing institutional change; and assessing the institution-wide impact of changes in library services. |