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Bell, Colleen
No full textcurrentI have been a librarian at UFV since 2005. Prior to that, I held positions as Library Instruction Coordinator at the University of Oregon (1996-2005) and as Systems Librarian at Eastern Oregon University (1994-1996). I also served as a librarian at a private high school and at an astrophysical observatory, both in Canada.
Most of my teaching at UFV is course-related instruction, offering workshops and seminars focused on research skills and ways of thinking in the current information landscape to students in the context of a course or program they are taking. In these workshops, I try to provide an authentic experience to students as they work to develop information competency, one of UFV's 9 Institutional Learning Outcomes. Working with their assignments, and their topics, and using a combination of "thinking aloud" and guided student participation, I aim to expose students to the techniques, problem-solving strategies, and ways of thinking that experienced researchers use when conducting secondary research. I rely on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to identify key knowledge, skills and dispositions displayed by information competent individuals.
I also develop online guides and learning materials to support student learning.
At previous institutions I have taught several credit courses related to information competency and was instrumental in developing an online learning presence for that institution. Additionally, I have held two appointments as adjunct faculty, teaching courses at the graduate level:
University of Oregon, Applied Information Management (Master's degree)
Electronic Information & Research (required, online), 2004-2010
University of British Columbia, iSchool (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies)
Instructional Role of the Librarian, 2009-2010
Scripting Languages for Information Professionals: Introduction to PHP, 2011-2015
Library Automation and Systems, 2012-2017
I also have a strong interest in working with faculty to develop students' information competency, in the content of specific assignments as well as across the curriculum.
Finally, I am a facilitator for the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), a 3.5-day workshop that allows faculty to focus on developing their teaching skills through the delivery of mini-lessons and participant feedback. I have been facilitating workshops at UFV and in the community since 2008
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'A daughter come home?': the travel writings of Colleen J. McElroy
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No full textLove of Colleen over allhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_ire/1046/thumbnail.jp
Bell, Colleen. 2011. The Security of Freedom: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism and Svendsen, Adam. 2010. Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror
No full textBell, Colleen. 2011. The Security of Freedom: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism and Svendsen, Adam. 2010. Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terro
An Assessment Strategy for the UFV Library: Faculty Sabbatical Leave Report for the Period January 1 - April 30, 2017
No full textEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This project advocates the development of library assessment as a key function of the UFV Library.
The underlying premise of this project is that assessment in libraries is a good and necessary thing. Four primary arguments - accountability, benchmarking, professional values, and, perhaps the most compelling, communicating value – outline the rationale behind this assertion.
Assessment in academic libraries has matured to the point where it has become an area of specialization; libraries have developed programs of library assessment and position titles of the librarians and staff engaged primarily in assessment work reflect that emphasis. The literature on assessment is rich and can be categorized across a number of themes: assessment climate and culture; collections; student learning; methods; organizational performance; services; space; user experience and usability; and value.
UFV’s strategic framework offers additional context for an assessment program within its library. Site visits to UBC Okanagan, Thompson Rivers University, and (virtually) Capilano University offer insight into how we might develop such a program. A survey of assessment activities in the UFV Library rounds out the environmental scan.
There are a range of technologies, tools, and systems that support assessment work; this project explored four of them, largely because they were readily available: BlueCloud Analytics, a product provided by SirsiDynix and designed to analyze data from our integrated library system; Tableau, data visualization software; Dedoose, web-based software for analyzing qualitative data; and LibInsight, a system for consolidating and analyzing library data.
Finally, this project offers a plan of action for establishing a program of library assessment as we move forward with strategic planning.
Keywords: library assessment; academic library value; library impact; outcomes; library collections; library services; library operations; library facilities; assessment strategy; strategic planning; data analytics; data audit; environmental scan; library metricsSabbatical reportlibrary assessmentacademic library valuelibrary impactoutcomeslibrary collectionslibrary serviceslibrary operationslibrary facilitiesassessment strategystrategic planningdata analyticsdata auditenvironmental scanlibrary metric
Novel Dialogue 2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye (AV)
No full textViet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Sympathizer and its sequel The Committed, joins esteemed scholar Colleen Lye of UC-Berkeley for a candid discussion about the Asian-American novel and the role of literature and theory in radical social movements. Colleen is drawn to the mix of philosophy and suspense in Viet's work and wonders if he considers himself a member of the theory generation; that is, writers for whom literary theory is not just a way of reading texts but an impetus to create new literary forms for grappling with ideas. Viet, schooled in deconstruction and postcolonial theory, accepts the designation with a caveat: If he is a novelist of ideas, then he is a novelist of revolutionary ideas. Inspired by Fanon's anticolonialism and Gayatri Spivak's concept of the double bind, Viet's defiantly politicizing aesthetic looks to place the colonial subject, particularly the Vietnamese refugee, at the center of multiple stories of American and French imperialism. Colleen and Viet reflect on the role of academic training in Viet's transformation from Asian-Americanist scholar into Asian-American novelist and discuss the peculiarities of immigrant Asian identity in terms of language. Mother tongues, bilingualism, orphaned language, and adopted language all become metaphors for how Asian-American writers must balance the loss of heritage and weight of expectation with the call to self-invention. Plus, Viet reveals the not-so-wholesome treats that enabled him to complete The Sympathizer
Colleen Murphy, Writer in Residence, 2011
No full textGuest speaker, Colleen Murphy, Fall 2011 Writer-in-Residence, delivering her speech at the Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception, October 27, 2011
Hauntings – A nodalist study
No full textSince Deleuze and Guattari first described the concept of the rhizome as a model of cultural transmission in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a new way of processing information in the Arts and Social Sciences has emerged – ‘Nodalism’. Philip Gochenour has convincingly argued that units of culture can now be thought of as ‘nodes’ existing in a nonhierarchical, web-like network. Information transfer between nodes in the network is horizontal, omni-directional and not necessarily teleological, a way of viewing the world which has been paralleled and actualized in the last twenty years by the emergence, growth and ubiquity of the internet and the World Wide Web.
The author – a developing audiovisual artist – here offers four videomusic pieces and one virtual sound-synthesis tool. At first glance, the pieces may appear to have little in common. However, the commentary will attempt to show that they are subtly linked together, immersed in a cocoon of rhizomatic, pluralistic, thread-like connections.
The strongest ‘thread’ holding them together appears to be the trope of being ‘haunted’ in some way – either by influence, genre, or overarching concept. However, this thesis will attempt to show how a detailed consideration of each piece results in a highly complex final picture in which the pieces can be thought of as individual cultural nodes suspended in a dense rhizomatic mass of lateral cultural threads. For the sake of completion, however, the project has received the name Hauntings in reference to one of the strongest shared tropes running throughout all five works
Colleen Fitzpatrick - Adoption searches
No full texthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIkxov2wG0c "This talk will give you insight into adoption searches – how to use explicit and implicit information in conjunction with DNA to locate someone even if don’t know his or her name. Speaker: Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD, is the author of three best-selling books in genealogy, and has been recognised for her innovative forensic science approach to genealogical research. Recorded: 20 April 2015 at Auckland Libraries
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