Dean’s Corner

(Navigating the Library)

(ACRL) Competency Standards.

The former ACRL standards and the current ACRL Framework set the parameters to be considered in course design. Additionally, professional experience has guided and shaped my teaching style in conducting information literacy instruction and relevant course materials.

Fall Semester Greetings

I am excited about the future of John B. Cade Library. Space planning in the library goes hand-in-hand with continuous technological developments. Please excuse our progress as the John B. Cade Library embarks upon a renovation to transform its 4th floor to a state-ofthe-art research and collaborative learning space.

We at John B. Cade Library want to operate together with our campus colleagues as a unified intellectual environment where service, research, teaching, and learning take place. To effectively design facilities

Library Dean Dawn Kight

and services for maximum benefit to our students requires extensive

collaboration and careful alignment with the academic mission. Students and faculty can find staff expertise of all kinds at John B. Cade Library. Librarians will assist in providing in-depth research consultations; borrowing hardto-find books or scholarly articles through interlibrary loan; and designing course specific library instruction. This issue highlights a few of the recent collaborations that the library has developed with campus partners. If you would like to collaborate with the library on any projects, please let me know or if you would like librarians to provide information literacy instruction for any courses please find your library liaison on the list provided (library liaisons) and contact them. We look forward to hearing from you.

1960’s Sit-Ins featured in Library Archives

In honor of the 60 th Anniversary of the 1960 sit-ins, the Archives, Manuscripts, and Rare Books department of John B. Cade Libraryhas released a digitized collection on sit-ins that occurred in Baton Rouge. The collection contains the historical records of Louisianian’s participation in the sit-in movement. This collection, consists of timelines, individual files, letters and correspondences from Dr. Felton G. Clark, letters and correspondences to Dr. Felton G. Clark, letters from business establishments, letters from educational institutions, letters from religious organizations, letters from Southern University students; newspaper clippings, reinstatement letters from Southern University students, and telegrams. Because of numerous Jim Crowlaws, public buildings and sites like libraries, parks, theaters, swimming pools, and water fountains were segregated. Racial segregation extended to the lunch counters at supermarkets and department, drug, and variety stores. Historians indicate that the sit-in movement helped to draw young people into the civil rights movement and created new leaders and organizations. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which would become an influential organization in the movement, was founded at a conference of sit-in leaders. Follow the link and directions below to view the collection. 1960 Sit-Ins Collection Click on the shaded gray bar labeled Archives – Then scroll down until you see three collections. Click on the graphic under the 1960 Sit-In Collection.