ABLE North & South presents:

"Information Competence and the Business Student"

Friday, October 25, 1996
Bahia Hotel--Room Location Yet to be Determined
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

SPEAKERS:	Alice Littlejohn Business Librarian CSU Long Beach alittlej@csulb.edu	Joseph Atkinson Business Librarian CSU San Marcos joseph_atkinson@csusm.edu
SPEAKERS:	Eloisa Gomez Borah Head of Public Services Rosenfeld Management Library, UCLA eloisa.borah@anderson.ucla.edu	Barbara Butler Business Librarian Sonoma State University Barbara.Butler@sonoma.edu

Program:

"Information-Seeking Activities of Business Students:
An Historical Perspective" (Alice Littlejohn)

The library research activities of business students will be discussed as reported in the literature since 1970 and studied in the 1990s. How have those activities changed? What has been the impact of automation? What have we learned for the future?

"Theoretical Considerations" (Joe Atkinson)

Strategies for developing an assessment of the information competence and seeking behaviors of business students.
Developing a functional survey instrument, and linking survey results to new methods and concepts for digital libraries.
(Check out Joe's summary and bibliography for more detail.)

"Business Information Competence from a Distance"
(Eloisa Gomez Borah)

How UCLA's Rosenfeld Management Library serves the information needs of the Executive MBA programs, as well as students studying abroad on exchange programs.

"Practical Applications for Undergraduates" (Barbara Butler)

"Information Literacy for Business Students"--discussion of a university credit course offered to undergraduate business students. The course is designed to teach basic business information concepts by integrating information technology within subject modules. Each class includes online information searching with hands-on exercises, and incorporates Internet resources wherever relevant. The term project requires a critical evaluation of resources. Classes are made available on the Web for distance education students.

Cost:	$15.00 CARL Members
	$20.00 Non-CARL
	$12.00 Students/Retirees

Contact Persons:	Carol Z. Womack 1996 Chair, ABLE-South UC Irvine (714) 824-8159 cwomack@uci.edu	Michael Oppenheim Immediate Past Chair, ABLE-South Cal State Los Angeles (213) 343-3996 moppenh@calstatela.edu

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