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I am the Planning and Assessment Librarian at Merced College, a community college in California. Our profession becomes more important in this time of fake news and internet use. Critical thinking skills are assumed and not taught. I want to be part of a community of critical thinkers who can help me bring skills, tools, ideas and conversations back to my institution.
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Merced College has a number of courses being taught on line and that the number continues to grow... more Merced College has a number of courses being taught on line and that the number continues to grow. The college is currently implementing online courses that meet the requirements of California SB520, passed in May of 2013, requiring all California students to have access to online classes at any California community college. This applies only if the classes they need are not available at their home institution. Added to this is the requirement from the accrediting agency for California Community Colleges that all students, both distance and face-to-face have equal access to library resources. As more and more classes go online, the need for a library presence in Blackboard, the current Learning Management System, also grows. The goal of this project was to explore how an online library presence would meet the needs of both online students and online faculty. Ultimately, the first two modules of an information literacy course were created that would to meet those needs. The modules w...
Fellowship of the American Association of Theological Schools (Sealantic Fund) in 1957-1958 and r... more Fellowship of the American Association of Theological Schools (Sealantic Fund) in 1957-1958 and received his Litt. D. Degree from Chapman College in 1956. As an active participant in the religious freedom movement of the 1960's and 1970's he was also active in the Alliance for the Preservation of Religious Liberty serving as the Vice-Chairman for a number of years. Dr. Judah was a pioneer in the early scholarly study of New Religious Movements in Berkeley in the 1970's, writing many articles and papers about the various groups. He published Jehovah's Witnesses and History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movement in 1964. In 1974, Hare Krishna and the Counterculture was published. Among the book chapters and articles that he wrote were several that were seminal in the field of New Religious Movements. Dr. Judah died on October 9, 2000. Scope and Content of Collection The material was collected from Dr. Judah's home after his death. Material was received in boxes, file folders and loose. Most of the collection has been retained as Dr. Judah filed it, including the cassette tapes. The collection pertains almost exclusively to the New Religious Movements.
In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend b... more In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science. The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a ...
Merced College has a number of courses being taught on line and that the number continues to grow... more Merced College has a number of courses being taught on line and that the number continues to grow. The college is currently implementing online courses that meet the requirements of California SB520, passed in May of 2013, requiring all California students to have access to online classes at any California community college. This applies only if the classes they need are not available at their home institution. Added to this is the requirement from the accrediting agency for California Community Colleges that all students, both distance and face-to-face have equal access to library resources. As more and more classes go online, the need for a library presence in Blackboard, the current Learning Management System, also grows. The goal of this project was to explore how an online library presence would meet the needs of both online students and online faculty. Ultimately, the first two modules of an information literacy course were created that would to meet those needs. The modules w...
Fellowship of the American Association of Theological Schools (Sealantic Fund) in 1957-1958 and r... more Fellowship of the American Association of Theological Schools (Sealantic Fund) in 1957-1958 and received his Litt. D. Degree from Chapman College in 1956. As an active participant in the religious freedom movement of the 1960's and 1970's he was also active in the Alliance for the Preservation of Religious Liberty serving as the Vice-Chairman for a number of years. Dr. Judah was a pioneer in the early scholarly study of New Religious Movements in Berkeley in the 1970's, writing many articles and papers about the various groups. He published Jehovah's Witnesses and History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movement in 1964. In 1974, Hare Krishna and the Counterculture was published. Among the book chapters and articles that he wrote were several that were seminal in the field of New Religious Movements. Dr. Judah died on October 9, 2000. Scope and Content of Collection The material was collected from Dr. Judah's home after his death. Material was received in boxes, file folders and loose. Most of the collection has been retained as Dr. Judah filed it, including the cassette tapes. The collection pertains almost exclusively to the New Religious Movements.
In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend b... more In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science. The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a ...