Colleagues,

 

In fall 2006, our freshman class participated in the ?Research Practices Survey? administered by NITLE?s First Year Information Literacy in the Liberal Arts Assessment Project.  Freshmen at twenty NITLE institutions (including Hendrix, St. Olaf, Carleton, Grinnell, Wellesley, and Swarthmore) were surveyed.  

 

My attached slides (based on a NITLE presentation to the Association of College and Research Libraries) highlight data for Hendrix and the NITLE group.  The data clearly show that we have work to do as a faculty.  Consider, for example, that 84% of our 2006 freshmen believe that Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News could be scholarly journals. 

 

Start at slide ten for NITLE/Hendrix data.  The first nine slides are merely background information.

 

Amanda

 

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Amanda Moore

Director of Bailey Library

Hendrix College

1600 Washington Avenue

Conway, AR 72032

501-450-1302

501-450-3800 (fax)

moorea@hendrix.edu

 

