Stepping into e-Learning: An Area and International Studies Librarianship Course Goes Online at Indiana University

Abstract

In the spring of 2016, the Area Studies Department of the Indiana University Libraries taught a semester long, online graduate level seminar, entitled Area and International Studies Librarianship. This collaboratively taught course is the outcome of a recognized national need for training for new area studies librarians. The department taught the course for the first time in 2015, but transitioned to the online format in order to make the course available to a broader student audience. In the transformation from in-person to online, the department faced multiple challenges, from incorporating international collaborators, to facing new instructional technologies. Throughout the experience, the six-person group of co-instructors relied on their strong history of collaboration and a pedagogy directed at actively engaging students and individualized study.

This file provides a template for writing papers for the 2016 IFLA conference. Full papers should be no longer than 4000 words. For your paper to be accepted it must be formatted as a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .rtf), 10 MB or less in size, including pictures & diagrams and should be written in compliance with these instructions.

An abstract with 100-300 words should appear on the first page, after the name(s) of the author(s) and the contact information of the corresponding author(s). In a chapter titled "Abstract:" (without chapter number. It should be a summary of your paper, single-spaced, with Times New Roman font, 11 point size and italics (assuming the paper is written with Latin-script). Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), Chinese (Simplified Chinese) and Russian language scripts should use the layout of this template and choose suitable fonts and font sizes.