This study describes new features for a mobile application designed to initiate face-to-face communication. While many mobile applications are designed to facilitate digitally mediated relationships ...(e.g., Facebook, Twitter) between previously known parties, systems focused on initiating face-to-face communication are less popular. The authors' mobile application takes inspiration from a Human Library event where participants come together to share stories with previously unknown persons. Through survey and interviews the authors describe new features of a mobile application to mediate face-to-face meetups. In the next phase of research the authors plan to implement those features and conduct additional user studies on our mobile application with the goal of increasing adoption.
Intranasal oxytocin therapy has been used to improve various aspects of autism spectrum disorder on the basis of tenuous results from small studies. In a randomized trial involving 290 participants 3 ...to 17 years of age with autism spectrum disorder, daily use of oxytocin did not improve measures of social interaction as compared with placebo over a period of 24 weeks.
During the summer, thousands of soon-to-be college students will read books as part of campus-wide "shared reading" programs (also referred as to common reader programs, one book programs, etc.). ...Such programs are designed to provide incoming students with a common experience and invite exploration of particular themes (e.g., diversity, etc.), while promoting reading and intellectual engagement. A variety of special events and initiatives are planned during fall and sometimes spring semesters to give students multiple opportunities to connect with the book, such as author visits, discussion groups, and book-related course assignments. This article highlights several shared reading programs and their special offerings, including areas where librarians collaborate with faculty and others to promote information literacy.
Regional library consortia and other groups throughout the U.S. are forming collaborative networks of librarians at all levels in order to prepare students to develop the necessary information ...literacy skills to be successful in college and beyond. This article focuses on an initiative of the Rochester (New York) Regional Library Council (RRLC). The Information Literacy Continuum Committee is a collaborative group of academic and school librarians in the Rochester, NY area committed to ensuring that students in K-12 and higher education institutions learn information seeking skills. The group has developed a continuum of information literacy skills for students in high school and higher education. The committee was first formed in 2004 as a result of a New York State Library Division of Library Development grant focused on the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) databases. The group's original charge was to promote lifelong learning through the use of NOVEL databases. The group eventually broadened its scope to students' information literacy skills, a concern that had been expressed by council members for a few years.
The "College Connection" is a new column providing space for discussion of issues and activities involving information literacy instruction at the higher education level. The column will explore ways ...in which library media specialists and academic librarians can help students make smooth transitions from high school to college through development of information literacy skills. This first College Connection column provides an update on the efforts of "S.O.S. for Information Literacy" project to expand to the higher education level.
This "back to school" edition of College Connection features ideas and success stories from academic libraries that have welcomed first-year students in creative ways. Many libraries participate in ...campus orientation initiatives in order to introduce new students to the library as a welcoming place with helpful staff. These events can set a positive tone for students to begin to develop their information literacy skills at the college level. Through games, activities and special events, academic libraries present themselves as comfortable environments, so that students will return to the library for research help when they need it. In this article, the author shares what some academic libraries are doing to welcome new students.
This is a collaborative column by K-12 library media specialists and academic librarians who write about the motivational strategies that have worked for them in teaching IL skills. Students who do ...not raise their hand to answer a question and are reluctant to learn something new often suffer from something called "fear of failure." They are so afraid of failing that they will not try. Fear of failure can prevent some students, particularly those at risk, from ever being successful learners. The authors asked some New York City school librarians to share some stories about such students and how they designed lessons with specially-selected motivational teaching strategies to help them overcome their fear of failure. The K-12 section of this column features several such stories followed by strategies suggested by these educators. This article contains the following: (1) Positive Changes for Joseph (Donna Berry); (2) From Fear to Confidence (Emily Cornell); (3) Being Sensitive to Fear of Failure (Nanette Dougherty); (4) A Top Ten List of Strategies for Addressing Fear of Failure (Contributing Writers: Elisa Cruz, Cleo Jarvis, AnnMarie Henry-Stephens and Lena Hilliard); and (5) Free Articles! (Esther Grassian).
