Awards and Publications

Awards

The Earlham Libraries have long been considered one of the nation's finest teaching libraries. In 2001, the Assocation of College and Research Libraries presented Earlham with its "ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award." In 2004, Earlham Library Director and Coordinator of Information Services, Thomas G. Kirk, Jr., was honored with the "ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year" award.

Publications

The following is a list of publications about the Earlham Libraries' programs, facilities, and services:

Baker, Neal and Thomas G. Kirk, Jr. "Emergence/Emergency? The Earlham Libraries and the First-Year Experience." The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Ed. Larry Hardesty. ACRL, University of South Carolina, 2007. 229-233.

Baker, Neal and Thomas G. Kirk, Jr. "Merged Service Outcomes for Earlham College." Reference Services Review, 35, no. 3, (2007). P.379-387.

Beth, Amy and Evan I. Farber. "Lessons from DIALOG: Technology Impacts Teaching/Learning." Library Journal 15 Sep. 1992: 26-30.

Breivik, Patricia Senn. "Making the Most of Libraries; in Search for Academic Excellence." Change: the Magazine of Higher Learning 19 (July-Aug. 1987): 44-53.

Cline, Hugh F. Building Library Collections: Policies and Practices in Academic Libraries. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1980.

Ehrmann, Stephen C. and Washington, DC. Association of American Colleges and Universities. "Beyond Computer Literacy: Implications of Technology for the Content of a College Education." Liberal Education 90, no. 4-6. 2004. p.6-13.

Eyman, David Harry. "The Use of Periodical Collections in Selected Liberal Arts College Libraries by College Seniors Majoring in History." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1975.

Farber, Evan Ira. "Library Instruction Throughout the Curriculum: Earlham College Program." Educating the Library User. Ed. John Lubans. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1974.

Farber, Evan and Sara Penhale. "Using Poster Session in Introductory Science Courses: An Example at Earlham." Research Strategies 13 (1995): 55-59.

Farber, Evan. "Faculty-Librarian Cooperation: A Personal Retrospective." RSR: Reference Services Review 27, no.3 (1999). p. 229-234.

Hardesty, Larry L. "The Development of a Set of Scales to Measure the Attitudes of Classroom Instructors Toward the Undergraduate Educational Role of the Academic Library." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1982.

Hardesty, Larry L., ed. Bibliographic Instruction in Practice: A Tribute to the Legacy of Evan Ira Farber. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1993.

Hutchins, Elizabeth O., Fister, Barbara, and Kris (Huber) MacPherson. "Changing Landscapes, Enduring Values: Making the Transition from Bibliographic Instruction to Information Literacy." Journal of Library Administration 36, no. 1-2. (2002). p. 3-19.

Kennedy, James R. "Integrated Library Instruction." Library Journal , 95, n.8, (April 15, 1970)
1450-1453.

Kennedy, James R., Thomas G. Kirk, and Gwendolyn A. Weaver. "Course-Related Library Instruction: A Case Study of the English and Biology Departments at Earlham College." Drexel Library Quarterly 7 (1971): 277-298.

Kirk, Thomas G, Jr. "A Comparison of Two Methods of Library Instruction for Students in Introductory Biology." College & Research Libraries 32 (1971): 465-474.

Kirk, Thomas G., Jr. "The Role of the Library in an Investigative Laboratory." The Laboratory: A Place to Investigate. Ed. John W. Thornton.The Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences, Publication No. 13: Washington, DC, 1972. 122-132..

Kirk, Thomas G., Jr, Patricia Iannuzzi, Corinne Laverty, Carla List, and Margaret Fain. "Programs that Work: Panel Discussion." Programs that Work: Papers presented at the Twenty-fourth National LOEX Library Instruction Conference, May 16-18, 1996. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1997.

Kirk, Thomas G., Jr. "The Role of Management Theory in Day-to-Day Management Practices of a College Library Director". (Winter, 2004.) Library Administration & Management, 18 (1) : 35-38.

Lane Rasmus, Francesca, and Christine M. Larson. "Instructional Partnerships: Team Teaching Global Politics and the Web." Indiana Libraries 16.1 (1997): 43-48.

Larson, Christine M. "What I Want in a Faculty Member: A Reference Librarian's Perspective." RUSQ: Reference and User Services Quarterly 37 (1998): 259-261.

Miller, Stuart Wayne. "Library Use Instruction in Selected American Colleges". M.A. diss. University of Chicago. 1976.

Mulnix, Amy and Sara J. Penhale. "Modeling the Activities or Scientists: A Literature Review & Poster Presentation Assignment." The American Biology Teacher 59 (1997): 482-487.

Penhale, Sara J. "Cooperative Learning Using Chemical Literature." Science & Technology Libraries 16.3-4 (1997): 69-87.

Penhale, Sara J. "Maximizing Bibliographic Instruction, Minimizing Reference." Change in Reference and BI: How Much Help and How? Ed. Linda Shirato and Rhonda Fowler. Pierian Press: Ann Arbor, 1996.

Penhale, Sara J., and Wilmer J. Stratton. "Online Searching Assignments in a Chemistry Course for Non-science Majors." Journal of Chemical Education 71 (1994): 227-229.

Penhale, Sara J., and Nancy Taylor. "Integrating End-User Searching into a Bibliographic Instruction Program." RQ 27 (1986): 212-220.

Penhale, Sara, Nancy Taylor, and Thomas G. Kirk, Jr. "A Method of Measuring the Reach of a Bibliographic Instruction Program." Paper presented at the 8th National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 11-14, 1997.

Penhale, Sara J., Jerome H. Woolpy, and William H. Buskirk. "Learning to be a Responsible Patient." Research Strategies 9 (1991): 51-55.

Penhale, Sara J., Jerome H. Woolpy, and William H. Buskirk. "Online Abstracts as a Source of Information for Undergraduate Research in a Small College Library." 1987. Final Narrative Report ED 297752.

Rader, Hannelore B. "Information Literacy and the Underground Curriculum." Library Trends 44, no. 2 (1995). p. 270-278.

Russell, Janet S., Lucy Martin, Dara Curtin, Sara Penhale, and Nathan A. Trueblood. "Non-science Majors Gain Valuable Insight Studying Clinical Trials Literature: An Evidence-based Medicine Library Assignment." Adv Physiol Educ 28: 188-194, 2004; doi:10.1152/advan.00029.2003.

Stahl, Aletha D. "What I Want in a Librarian: One New Faculty Member's Perspective." RUSQ: Reference and User Services Quarterly 37 (1997): 133-135.

Taylor, Nancy, and Sara Penhale. "End-user Searching and Bibliographic Instruction." Bibliographic Instruction and Computer Database Searching. Ed. T.B. Mensching and K.J. Stanger. Pierian Press: Ann Arbor, 1988. 57-74.

Taylor, Susan Krehbiel. "An Examination of Course-Related Library Instruction Programs at Three Small Private Liberal Arts Colleges." Ph.D. diss. Kansas State University, 1991.

Ver Steeg, Jennie. "Earlham College: Collaboration Through Course-Integrated Instruction." The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. Eds. Disck Raspa and Dane Ward. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000): 41-50.

Wilkinson, Billy R. Reference Services for Undergraduate Students: Four Case Studies. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1972.

Woolpy, Jerome H. "Information Retrieval for Introductory Science Courses." The American Biology Teacher 39 (March 1977): 162-164+.