Fwd: Meeting on Yale College Curriculum Changes and the Library

[Danuta Nitecki <danuta.nitecki@YALE.EDU>]

REMINDER:  this meeting is scheduled for this morning.  Danuta

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> What will an educated person need to know a decade or two from now, and 
> what steps can Yale College take to ensure that students are given the 
> best preparation for the future world?   This was the key question 
> President Levin posed to the Committee on Yale College Education [CYCE], 
> and in 2003 this distinguished group of faculty and campus administrators 
> issued a report of its findings and recommendations.   Since then, the 
> Yale College has been working toward planning and implementing reforms to 
> the undergraduate curriculum.
>
> Joseph Gordon, Deputy Dean of Yale College, will join LMC members next 
> week and any other librarians, curators, or Library staff who are 
> interested to learn about these undergraduate curriculum reform activities 
> underway in the College.   Alfred Guy, director of the newly 
> established  Center for Writing Instruction, and  Dean Peter Quimby, 
> director of the new Freshman Seminar Program will participate in this 
> session as well.
>
> Dean Gordon will highlight plans for  the curricular reform described by 
> CYCE but will assume that all those attending will have familiarized 
> themselves with at least the Executive Summary of this groups report; the 
> report is available online at 
> <http://www.yale.edu/yce/>http://www.yale.edu/yce/   I also have invited 
> Dean Gordon to comment on ways the Library may support these efforts, and 
> he and his colleagues look forward to leading a discussion about our work, 
> along with the faculty, to develop information research skills, and 
> to  help students to  make good use of collection-based and electronic 
> resources in their studies and in their life activities after they leave 
> Yale.   [The Librarys proposal to the CYCE on our support of instruction 
> for undergraduate research methods appears as an appendix in the CYCE 
> Report.   To view it online, see: 
> http://www.yale.edu/yce/report/libraryreport.pdf].
>
> The future of undergraduate teaching and education at Yale is a highly 
> relevant topic to many of us in the Library, especially as we are 
> designing renovations to our library facilities and developing new 
> services and tools to help prepare our students.   Please mark your 
> calendar for this timely session with Dean Gordon, Mr. Guy, and Dean Quimby:
>
> Wednesday, January 26, 2005
> 10-11 a.m.
> Sterling Memorial Library
> Lecture Hall
>
> Library staff are welcome to attend, subject to approval from their 
> supervisor and coverage of services.
>
> Danuta A. Nitecki
> Associate University Librarian
> for public services