Changing roles for teaching support

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

Those interested in changing library roles in support of teaching are 
invited to join a stimulating and timely discussion of how a major research 
university is strengthening links between faculty, librarians, 
instructional technologists, assessment experts, and graduate teaching 
fellows, in order to improve undergraduate student learning.  Two visiting 
colleagues will address the Mellon-funded Berkeley Project that aims to 
strengthen the connections between undergraduate research, information 
literacy, and library collections.  Following the presentation, Yale 
faculty, librarians, administrators, and students are invited to reflect on 
the adaptability of the program's strategies to develop collaborations and 
encourage new support of teaching.

CHANGING LEARNING, CHANGING ROLES
Friday, April 29, 2005
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Room38-39

Presentation by:
Christina Maslach
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
University of California, Berkeley

and

Patricia Iannuzzi (Yale '76)
Dean of Libraries
University of Nevada,
Las Vegas

A few notes about our speakers:
Christina Maslach is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor 
of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.  She received 
her AB, magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College 
in 1967, and her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University in 1971.  She 
has conducted research in a number of areas within social and health 
psychology.  However, she is best known as one of the pioneering 
researchers on job burnout, and the author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory 
[MBI], the most widely used research measure in the burnout field.  In 
addition to numerous articles, she has written several books on this 
topic.  In 1997, Professor Maslach received national recognition as 
"Professor of the Year," an award made by the Carnegie Foundation and the 
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education [CASE].  In that same 
year, the American Psychological Association recognized her expertise as 
both a researcher and teacher by selecting her to deliver the prestigious 
G. Stanley Hall Lecture at its annual convention.  Among Professor 
Maslach's other honors are the presidency of the Western Psychological 
Association, the Distinguished Teaching Award  from the University of 
California at Berkeley, and her selection as a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science.

Patricia Iannuzzi is familiar to many at Yale, having received her 
bachelor's degree in psychology here in 1976 and returned as a reference 
librarian after receiving her master's degree from Simmons College in 
1981.   In February 2005, she assumed responsibilities as Dean of Libraries 
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after having spent the previous 
five years at the University of California at Berkeley, as director of the 
Doe and Moffitt Libraries and interim director of collections.  Patricia is 
a nationally known expert on information literacy, having made numerous 
presentations, and authored books and articles on the topic.   As chair of 
the Association of College and Research Libraries' Task Force on 
Information Literacy Standards, Patricia worked with representatives of the 
American Association of Higher Education, the Middle States Commission on 
Higher Education, the Association of Library and Information Science 
Educators, and ACRL to create Information Literacy Competency Standards for 
Higher Education, a document that has been embraced nationally and 
internationally by both higher education associations and academic 
librarians.  In 2001 the ACRL honored her with the Miriam Dudley 
Instruction Librarian Award.


For more information, please contact:
Danuta A. Nitecki, Associate University Librarian for Reader Services;
 phone:  432-1818 or email: 
<mailto:danuta.nitecki@yale.edu>danuta.nitecki@yale.edu