Metacognition and Monitoring
Web Seminar offered by OSU Libraries and TELR
Monday, May 5
1-2 p.m.
Sullivant Library, Room 244A.
Hear more from Marsha Lovett, who gave the keynote address at the Spring OSU Academy of Teaching Mini Conference.
Lovett, Associate Research Professor and Associate Director Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, is featured speaker for this Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) web seminar: Metacognition and Monitoring: Understanding and Improving Students’ Skills for Learning.
As educators, Lovett says, we tend to focus on teaching students “content,” but we also want to help students develop as learners. Metacognition–thinking about one’s own thinking and reflecting on one’s own learning–is essential to achieving learning outcomes and to help students gain metacognitive skills.
An opportunity to discuss ways to integrate practices and strategies to improve student learning follows. The seminar is free. Read more at http://www.educause.edu/eliweb085
April 23rd, 2008
Jay Kennedy, the former Editor in Chief at King Features Syndicate who died in 2007, bequeathed his collection of underground comic books to The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library. The collection of more than 9,500 items is one of the most extensive in the world. Kennedy, who authored the seminal reference work The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide: Listing Alternative Comix in the U.S. & Canada from 1962 to the Present (Boatner Norton Press: 1982), was an authority on underground comics. A comics scholar, a gentleman, a lover of the 60s, and an artist himself, Kennedy held underground comics as not just an art movement, but also a social, political and cultural movement.
“We are honored that Jay bequeathed his collection to us,” says Lucy Shelton Caswell, professor and curator of the library. “It is a very substantial resource that will interest scholars in several areas.”
The Jay Kennedy Collection will be housed in the library’s secure, climate-controlled stacks so that the materials will be convenient for users in its reading room. According to Caswell, work has begun to catalog these materials to make them available to researchers as soon as possible.
Brendan Burford, Kennedy’s associate at King Features Syndicate, stated, “During the time I knew Jay Kennedy, I was fortunate to have him share many things with me, among them, his comic book collection. I got to know his collection very well as we worked together for several years cataloging its contents. It’s a tremendous collection — one that is unparalleled. I can’t think of a better home for Jay’s comic books than the OSU Cartoon Research Library. The collection will live on admirably.”
April 21st, 2008
A new service from the OSU Libraries gives students and researchers the ability to search multiple databases at the same time.
The service, available from the Libraries’ web site, library.osu.edu, lets customers select subject areas they want to include when conducting a database search. The feature then searches multiple databases that apply to the subject areas selected.
Multi-search selections cover 18 subject areas, such as “business and economics,” “health sciences,” “mathematics and physical sciences” and “news and current events.”
The service is available from either the “Quicklinks” column or the “Find Articles and More” in the search box.
April 21st, 2008
April 15 is fast approaching. If you’re in need of tax forms, supplies of some popular forms are available at the Sullivant Library, 1813 N. High St. Access to additional forms and assistance is available from these government resources:
Federal Tax Forms
Internal Revenue Service
1-800-TAX-FORM (829-3676)
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
For help in answering Federal income tax questions:
1-800-TAX-1040 (829-1040) (24 hr.)
State of Ohio Tax Forms
Ohio Department of Taxation
Taxpayer Service/Central Registration Division Location:
Taxpayer Services Response Section
P.O. Box 530
Columbus, OH 43216-0530
1-800-282-1782
IRS Columbus Office
200 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
(614) 280-8691
April 1st, 2008
University Libraries is accepting proposals for the 2008 Course Enhancement Grant program. Grants of $2,000 will be given to instructors for the enhancement of courses by substantially integrating library resources and/or incorporating information literacy instruction. The deadline for proposals is Monday, April 21 for courses to be taught during Summer or Autumn quarters 2008. For details, see http://library.osu.edu/sites/learn/cegrfp.php or contact Nancy O’Hanlon, 688-5707 or ohanlon.1@osu.edu
April 1st, 2008
Peter Brantley
Executive Director, Digital Library Federation
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 p.m.
Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr.
Peter Brantley is currently director of strategic technology for academic information systems in the University of California’s Office of the President. He has 20 years’ experience in systems development and management, including academic computing services at UC Berkeley and academic information systems management and digital library development at UC San Francisco and New York University. He also served as director of technology for the California Digital Library. He has been active in the Digital Library Federation, participating in the Digital Library Federation Services Framework initiative and co-managing the Digital Library Federation Developers’ Forum.
The series is sponsored by the OSU Libraries and the Office of Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), with support from the Friends of the OSU Libraries. For information call 614-292-2503 or 614-292-5875.
March 28th, 2008
“The Black Dress,” with author Valerie Steel
Monday April 28
Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave.
5:30 p.m., refreshments, Columbia Gas Lounge
6 p.m., lecture, Campbell 200
7 p.m., book signing
The black dress has been the foundation of a woman’s wardrobe for centuries. The allure of the black dress has captured the imagination of generations of couturiers and artists and served as the signature of society’s most enviably dressed women. With an essay and images selected by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, this book features page after uniquely designed page of some of the most compelling dresses in the history of fashion. The presentation is in conjunction with the current exhibit, “The Little Black Dress: Fashion Icon.”
March 28th, 2008
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.
The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.
Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.
Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching
Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.
Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.
If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org
March 20th, 2008
William G. Thomas, III is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Explore scholarship and publishing in the digital age. National leaders in digital scholarship will consider the topic through diverse lenses such as scholarly communication, academic publishing, and intellectual property in an age where the lines between scholarly and popular discourse are becoming blurred. Jensen will make his presentation on Tuesday, March 4, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has served as Director and co-founder of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia where he led research in the field of digital humanities scholarship. His digital research initiatives have included The Valley of the Shadow, Race and Place: African American Community in the Jim Crow South, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, and The Roots of Modern America. Thomas shared, with Anne Rubin and Edward Ayers, the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the Valley of the Shadow project, and the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association in recognition of the project as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history.
For information, call 614-292-2503.
March 1st, 2008
The David Abbey Paige Pastel Drawings
OSU Faculty Club
Through April 25, 2008
181 S. Oval Dr.
Pastel drawings from the collections of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.
February 26th, 2008
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