Dr. Carol Kuhlthau to present 2008 Lazerow Memorial Lecture October 8

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Carol Kuhlthau present the annual Thomson Scientific Lazerow Memorial Lecture to be held on October 8, from 7:00 - 8:00 pm in the UT Hodges Library Auditorium. Her talk, “Guided Inquiry:  Application of Information Seeking Research in pre K-12 Education in the 21st Century,” will present a dynamic, integrated approach to teaching curriculum content, information literacy, and strategies for learning.
Kuhlthau’s model of the 21st-century school encourages teachers to offer alternative solutions to the information search process that allows students to answer the deeper questions of their own interests in the world by facing the issues of social perspectives throughout the curriculum.

This event is free, open to the public, and will be webcast.

What: 2008 Thomson Scientific Lazerow Memorial Lecture with Dr. Carol Kuhlthau
When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Where: UT Hodges Library Auditorium

Dr. Kuhlthau is Professor II Emerita of Library and Information Science at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at the Rutgers University Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries. 

Abstract:
Guided Inquiry:  Application of Information Seeking Research in pre K-12 Education in the 21st Century

21st century culture calls for innovative ways of gathering information to inform and enable citizens to think and act. This talk stresses the importance of applying established information science research to address some of our most pressing problems using the education of students as a prime example. New AASL Standards for 21st Century Learning are strongly inquiry-based to prepare students for 21st century life and work. Kuhlthau's extensive research and model of the Information Search Process (ISP) forms the basis for guiding students in the inquiry process in a program called Guided Inquiry. Guided Inquiry provides a framework for librarians and teachers to work together to develop interventions and strategies that guide students in curriculum based inquiry for the sustained learning that the Standards require.  Kuhlthau discusses the application of her research findings and concepts presented in Seeking Meaning to the program presented in Guided Inquiry for improving learning in pre K-12 education.

Dr. Kuhlthau’s Biography:

Dr. Kuhlthau is Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University where she directed the graduate program in school librarianship that has been rated number one in the country by U.S. News.  She achieved the rank of Professor II, a special rank at Rutgers requiring additional review beyond that for full professor. She also chaired the Department of Library and Information Science and was the founding director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL). She is internationally known for her groundbreaking research on the Information Search Process and for the ISP model of affective, cognitive and physical aspects in six stages of information seeking and use.  She has authored Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services and Teaching the Library Research Process and published widely in referred journals and edited volumes. A new book, Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, authored with her daughters Leslie K. Maniotes and Ann K. Caspari is now available through Libraries Unlimited.

She has received numerous awards including: American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Research in Information Science Award; Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Information Science and Library Education; Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Kilgour Research Award; American Library Association (ALA) Shera Award for the Outstanding Research; Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Dudley Award; American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Distinguished Service Award; Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)Award for Outstanding Contributions to the School Library Media Field through Publishing, and Teaching.

Kuhlthau has held visiting appointments at the University of Tampere, Finland; University College of Boras, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; The Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark; Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan; University of Leiden, The Haag Campus, The Netherlands; Aalborg University, Denmark; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; School of Information Management and Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Fulbright Senior Scholar, University Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia; Department of Information Management, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.