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=Welcome to Trevecca's MLIS Information Literacy Wiki!=

This wiki is for students enrolled in **[|Trevecca Nazarene University's]** graduate Library Science Master's program.

Favorite Reference 2.0 and Web 2.0 tools can be found here. Add yours to the list!

Library World Event News and Dates:
On **November 16, 2013**, libraries across the country and world will participate in the **largest, simultaneous international gaming event** ever held! It was a huge success! Check out more about this event here. Waggoner Library is hosting our first ever Game Night on Friday night, Nov. 15th from 7pm to 10pm. We're having new board games such as Ticket to Ride and The Settlers of Catan along with classics such a Pictionary, UNO, and Clue.It's going to be fun! The event is held annually during the second week of March. Contact the ALA Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA, a division of ALA) with questions.
 * ====**International Games Day is, Nov. 16, 2013.[[image:IGD12-logo-medium.png width="291" height="81" align="left"]] **====
 * **[|Teen Tech Week]** - March 9-15, 2014 - Check in here beginning in November for details, free resources and more!
 * Teen Tech Week **is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries such as DVDs, databases, audiobooks, and videogames. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries' nonprint resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology. Teen Tech Week began in 2007 and has the theme of DIY @ your library as the theme for 2014.

**Library Snapshot Day** provides a way for libraries of all types across a state, region, system or community to show what happens in a single day in their libraries. This initiative provides an easy means to collect statistics, photos and stories that will enable library advocates to prove the value of their libraries to decision-makers and increase public awareness. ALA is again designating April as Library Snapshot Day in hopes of collecting statistics from across the United States to create a national snapshot. Contact Jaclyn Finneke, ALA Office for Library Advocacy with questions.
 * **[|Library Snapshot Day]** - April 2014


 * [|School Library Month] -** April 2014: []
 * School Library Month (SLM) ** is the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) celebration of school librarians and their programs. [|First celebrated in 1985] (as School Library Media Month; the name was changed to School Library Month in 2010), every April school librarians are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student's educational career. Shares the theme of National Library Week. Contact the ALA American Association of School Librarians (AASL, a division of ALA) with questions.

First sponsored in 1958, ** National Library Week ** is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries -- school, public, academic and special -- participate. The theme is: **Lives change @ your library®**. Contact National Library Week Campaign Coordinator Megan McFarlane of the ALA Public Information Office with questions.
 * **[|National Library Week]** - April 13-19, 2014: []



Welcome to Peer 14 cohort!

 * Peer 13, Peer Group 12, Cleveland Peer group**, **Peer Group 10, Peer Group 9 and Lawrenceburg Peer 8** developed **Information Literacy Lesson** plans that were a response to a Needs Assessment project within their library settings. Some questioned their students, some their faculty and some questioned both groups. All have discovered new things about information literacy needs of their patrons. **Peer 11** used the Wiki for collaborative work in the Reference Toolbox.


 * Peer Group 8** has created information literacy lesson plans that were a response to a **Needs Assessment** project within their library settings. Some questioned their students, some their faculty and some questioned both groups. All have discovered new things about information literacy needs of their patrons.


 * Peer Group 7** created lesson plans centering around technology and teens that coincided with **Teen Tech Week.**


 * Best Practices** refers to your practical expertise and knowledge in your library setting.

Students, once you are logged in, click on the title of your section. Your page can be edited--you can paste in your lesson plan here. You will see the button on the top right 'edit page.' That is what you need to click to add your lesson plan. Once you have edited it to your liking you can 'preview' the page to make sure it looks right. Then clicking on 'Save' will make it viewable. You can insert images, files, embedded media as well.

New!

 * Remember that a wiki is a collaborative learning space. You can edit all pages BUT here is how I would like for you to add comments. Each page has a tab labeled Discussion. Click on that tab and here you can post a comment relating to that page.**