LIBR 220-02
Resources and Information Services in Professions and Disciplines (2 units)
Topic: Service Learning and Volunteering for Young Adults in the Library Context
Spring 2007 Greensheet
Dr. Anthony Bernier
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Office Phone: (408)924-2501
Home Phone: (510)339-6880
Office Hours: by appointment
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Mission of the School
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) educates professionals and develops leaders who organize, manage and enable the effective use of information and ideas in order to contribute to the well-being of our communities.
Getting Launched
SLIS utilizes a networked learning environment called Blackboard for class communications, submitting assignments, and grade records. You should enroll in our 220-02 Blackboard site on or shortly after 10 January 2007. Enroll early so you can prepare the first assignments due on Tuesday 30 January. Not submitting the assignment on time forfeits grade points.
SJSU SLIS Blackboard is at http://tigris.sjsu.edu
NOTE: On 10 January 2007, I will send you the access code to enroll in our Blackboard site. You will receive the access code if you are enrolled in the class via the My.SJSU.edu messaging system.
Course Description
This course examines enriching volunteer and service learning models to expand ways libraries can thoughtfully integrate young adults into their operations as partners and citizens. “Ask not what your teen volunteers can do for you, but what you can do for your teen volunteers!”
Teen volunteering remains one of the most potent and yet under-exploited and under theorized mechanisms for both building relationships with young adults as well as providing them exposure and access to valuable experiential, workplace preparedness, and human resources. The purpose of this course is to engage critical thinking about the received assumptions and practices surrounding common young adult library volunteer program offerings, examine different models of program delivery, and cultivate creative new thought about how better to improve value to young adults, libraries, and communities. More specifically, the course will examine “service learning” models incorporating community service and notions of civic engagement as a means to strengthen communities, as well as offer young adults opportunities to satisfy increasingly popular community service graduation requirements.
Prerequisites: none
Course Objectives
Core Competencies
LIBR 220-02 will support you in developing the professional core competencies identified by SLIS in the following areas:
- use service concepts, principles and techniques that facilitate information access, relevance, and accuracy for individuals or groups of users;
- understand the nature of research, research methods and research findings; retrieve, evaluate and synthesize scholarly and professional literature for informed decision-making by specific client groups;
- evaluate programs and services on specified criteria;
- contribute to the cultural, economic, educational and social well-being of our communities
This particular section of 220 also supports these core competencies:
- apply the fundamental principles of planning, management and marketing/advocacy;
- demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication technologies, and other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and other types of information providing entities;
- design training programs based on appropriate learning principles and theories;
- demonstrate oral and written communication skills necessary for group work, collaborations and professional level presentations
Course Outcomes
These course outcomes will help you to:
- develop and demonstrate skills in scholarly and field research methods
- locate young adult library services in broader cultural and professional contexts
- help you prepare an entire young adult volunteer program
- develop your written expression and analysis
- improve your professional public presentations and delivery
Textbooks and Readings
Required Texts
- none
Additional Readings
We will be reading a variety of materials either posted to our Blackboard site, accessible on-line through the SJSU Library, or otherwise made available. Further references for these items are forthcoming in the Course Outline.
Please do not distribute access to these materials as they are designed specifically to support you in your 2006 Fall 220-02 studies.
Course Requirements
This Spring 2007 course requires that you:
- complete reading and writing assignments as required in the Course Outline
- attend all of both class meetings
- refer to our course Blackboard site frequently
- prepare and deliver in-class presentations
- produce a final project as detailed in the Course Outline (and submitted via Blackboard)
- maintain minimal home computing environment required by SLIS, see http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/homecomputing.htm
- access the required software downloads (free):
- Adobe Reader available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
- RealPlayer available at: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/realplayer.htm
Dropping the Course
The last day to drop this course without an entry on your permanent record is Monday 5 February 2006.
Course Schedule
| Date | Location | Time |
| Saturday 14 April | Clark Hall, 316 | 10am-6pm |
| Saturday 12 May | Clark Hall, 316 | 10am-6pm |
Assignments
| Student Deliverables | Grade Weight |
Due Date |
| 5 one-page papers |  10 points (total)* |
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| 2 one-page papers | 5 points each |
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| Brief, in-class, presentations | 10 points each |
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| Final Project (7-10 pages) | 60 points |
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Total: 100 |
*Note: items weighted with the green checkmark () above must all be submitted on time to receive a total of 10 points, they do not constitute a series of discrete one-point assignments.
All of your submitted work will receive written analytical comments from me. I will also render and post what I call “AB’s Overall Comments” for the final paper to give you my assessments of the entire classes’ performance. These comments are designed to help strengthen your skills and build your confidence to perform and deliver developmentally-appropriate young adult services at a professional level.
As detailed in the Course Outline, except for the class meetings on campus, all assignments and student deliverables are to be completed and submitted by midnight on the Tuesday of the week in which they are due. For instance, the written assignments due Week 2 must be submitted by midnight, Tuesday 30 January, via Blackboard (which will not accept assignments after that time).
Assignment Changes
The instructor reserves the right to alter assignments with fair notice.
Attendance/Participation
Our course convenes in class meetings only twice (see dates/times/room above). As a graduate student you are expected to attend all of both of these sessions, as well as participate in our on-line experience.
Incompletes
You should avail yourself of the policy for uncompleted coursework on the School’s website under “Registration.”
Late Assignments
As this is a graduate school program designed to prepare you for professional success and leadership, and because administering late assignments detract from attention to the success of the entire class, no late assignments will be accepted, read, or receive comments.
Late submissions will not be accepted, read, or receive comments.
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
| 97-100 | A |
| 94-96 | A- |
| 91-93 | B+ |
| 88-90 | B |
| 85-87 | B- |
| 82-84 | C+ |
| 79-81 | C |
| 76-78 | C- |
| 73-75 | D+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability,
please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires
that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center
(DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.
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