Guest Editors of this issue: Emily M. Okada and the Steering Committee of the Bibliographic Instruction/User Education Section, Indiana Library Federation.
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(H.W. Wilson Company, 1997) Ramus, Francesca Lane; Larson, Christine M.
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the bibliographic instruction program
at Earlham College has facilitated strong instructional partnerships
between teaching faculty and librarians. Given the growth in information
sources available via the Internet, these partnerships now extend beyond the
realm of traditional library instruction. One example of how this has evolved
at Earlham is the two-year partnership of these authors, who have been part
of a team that teaches political science students to create World Wide Web
(WWW) pages reflecting topical research and analysis. Successful instructional
partnerships are critical to the success of this endeavor.
This article describes and evaluates how an assignment that uses the
WWW to research and present a global problem was team-taught during the
spring 1997 semester, paying particular attention to the instructional partnerships,
and their advantages and problems. Reasons for the success of the
team teaching methods are discussed.