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LACUNY INSTITUTE 2000 INFORMATION
LITERACY: Carol Wright is Education/Psychology Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries with responsibility for education policy studies, higher education, higher education, adult education, instructional design, and psychology. She also serves as the Schreyer Honors College Librarian. Carol has had a long and continuing commitment to library instruction and information literacy issues both at Penn State and nationally. She has been actively involved in all areas of Penn State's instructional program, most recently as project director for the Libraries' "Information Literacy and You" tutorial. Carol received a grant from Penn State's World Campus/ATT Inovations in Distance Education project to develop library instructional services to distance education students. She also served as the lead librarian for coordinating the delivery of basic library instruction to first-year composition students and for teaching the Internet in partnerships with members of the PSU Center for Academic Computing. Carol has just returned from sabbatical leave where she studied student use of the Internet. She is active in the American Library Association and received an MLS from Syracuse University and a BS from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. "Information Literacy within the General Education Program: Implications for Distance Education." Journal of General Education, 49, spring 2000. "Reference Services for Higher Education: Instructional Multimedia, Software, Courseware, and Networked Resources." In The Changing Face of Reference. Eds. Dena Hutto and Lynne Stuart. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1996. "Adult Literacy." In Bridging the Gap: Resolving Polarity in America. Eds. Nancy Herron and Diane Zabel. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995. With Sally Kalin. "A Partnership for Internet Instruction." Reference Librarian, fall 1994. (Winner of the ALA Library Instruction Round Table Outstanding Publication of the Year.) "Application of the Model Statement to a Basic Information Access Skills Program at Penn State University." In Read This First: An Owner's Guide to the New Model Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction. Eds. C. Dusenbury and others. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 1991. With Mary Ellen Larson. "Basic Information Access Skills: Curriculum Design Using a Matrix Approach." Research Strategies, 8, summer 1990. |
