Webcasts from ACRL on Leadership and Combating Plagiarism

Registration is open for two Webcasts from ACRL: "The Role of the Librarian in Combating Student Plagiarism" (October 26) and "Leading the Academic Library" (November 13).

1. The Role of the Librarian in Combating Student Plagiarism

Webcast Date: October 26, 2006

Webcast Time: 11:00 a.m. Pacific, 1:00 p.m. Central, 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Length: 1.5 hours

This Webcast from ACRL explores the role of the academic librarian in combating student plagiarism, the "culture of copy" that our students inhabit and why plagiarism poses problems for higher education professionals including academic librarians, why use of discipline based approaches helps combat plagiarism effectively, how to design effective information literacy session assignments to help students understand how they can avoid plagiarism, and more.

Lynn Lampert, coordinator of information literacy and instruction at California State University-Northridge will lead this Webcast, which is based on her half-day 2006 Midwinter ACRL preconference, “Combating the Culture of Copy: Information Literacy Interventions for Plagiarism.”

Register
Registration is limited to 60. ACRL and ALA members receive a registration discount. For complete information, including a link to registration, go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/plagiarism.htm

* ALA members and nonmembers with an existing account will need to use their login and password to register
* new users will be asked to create a user account before registering


2. Leading the Academic Library (new)

Webcast Date: November 13, 2006

Webcast Time: 11 a.m. Central, noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific

Length: 1.5 hours

In this session, John Budd, professor and associate director of the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia and author of The Changing Academic Library: Operations, Culture, Environments, will introduce some basic ideas of leadership as offered by some influential individuals, emphasize the nature of the academic library as an organization, and investigate both the language and ethics of leadership. The aforementioned will ultimately serve to set the stage for the practice of leadership in academic libraries.

Registrants will have access to the online community one week prior to the Webcast to participate in discussion boards as preparation for the Webcast.

Register
Registration is limited to 60. ACRL and ALA members receive a registration discount. For complete information, including a link to registration, go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/leadership.htm

* ALA members and nonmembers with an existing account will need to use their login and password to register
* new users will be asked to create a user account before registering