Prof. Periman presents at CAFE faculty development appreciation award breakfast April 11

Standing l to r: Prof. Deb Periman and Prof. Brannon discuss the results of their course revisions.

 Prof. Deb Periman, J.D., Justice faculty, and justice library liaison Prof. Page Brannon presented at the Center for Academic Excellence (CAFE) 6th Annual Faculty Development Appreciation Award Breakfast on April 11. The event highlighted the many faculty development initiatives taking place in the UAA system.

Provost "Bear" Baker (at podium) welcomes the group.

One of these initiatives is the Embedding Information Literacy into the Curriculum Program, a partnership with CAFE and the UAA/APU Consortium Library.  Mini-grants were awarded to faculty to assist them in embedding information literacy into a course. 

Prof. Periman was awarded a mini-grant and collaborated with justice library liaison Prof. Page Brannon, on revisions to the course "Legal Ethics and the Role of the Legal Paraprofessional."  They spoke to the group about the results of these revisions. The revisions included an emphasis on library-related student research and focused on allowing students to learn, reinforce, and master information literacy skills relevant to the course level.

Justice faculty present on embedding information literacy in courses

L to r: Prof. Deb Periman and Prof. Page Brannon
explain how the revised course increased student
engagement with technology and library resources.

Dr. Marny Rivera and Prof. Deb Periman, J.D., Justice faculty, recently presented the results of embedding information literacy into a course to increase students' understanding of technology. The faculty members had each received a Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) Information Literacy minigrant to assist them in revising a course to be taught in the 2013-2014 academic year with the goal of embedding the use of technology resources.

Another objective of the process was to encourage collaboration between discipline faculty and library faculty. Dr. Rivera revised her JUST 200 Research Methods course and Prof. Periman focused on her LEGL Legal Ethics & the Role of the Legal Professional course in partnership with Prof. Page Brannon, Justice Librarian.  The presentations were made on April 11 at the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

 Both Justice faculty working on information literacy are also program coordinators. Dr. Rivera is the Justice Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Prof. Periman is the Legal Studies Program Coordinator.

L to r: Dr. Marny Rivera and Prof. Page Brannon discuss how they determined
the best ways to include technology resources in the course curriculum.

UA statewide online institutional repository for faculty, staff and student research goes live - ScholarWorks@UA

ScholarWorks@UA, the statewide online institutional repository for digital copies of research and scholarship by faculty, staff, and students, is now live. This website provides free, public access to digital documents. UAF, UAA, and UAS are the primary participants in this first phase, and research from other campuses will be added in the future.

Currently, only UAF has content on the site; UAA will be adding content next month. Click here for ScholarWorks@ UA https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/

The Justice Center is a member of  the UA Institutional Repository Review Advisory Board which reviewed the development of the site.  Stephen Rollins, Dean of the UAA/APU Consortium Library; Rebecca Moorman,  Head of Technical Services, Consortium Library; and Barbara Armstrong, Alaska Justice Forum editor, UAA Justice Center, represent UAA on the board. Dean Rollins is leading the effort at UAA to place UAA content on the website, and will be working with Rebecca Moorman; Professor Kate Gordon, Institutional Repository Librarian at UAA; and Barbara Armstrong.

Two Justice Center faculty selected for CAFE curriculum partnership awards

Prof. Deb Periman, J.D., and Dr. Marny Rivera, Justice faculty, have been awarded mini-grants by the UAA Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) Library/Embedding Information Literacy into the Curriculum Partnership Program. This project is a partnership with CAFE and the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

Prof. Periman will be working with Prof. Page Brannon, Justice Library Liaison, on revisions to the course "Legal Ethics and the Role of the Legal Paraprofessional."  The revisions will include an emphasis on library-related student research and focus on allowing students to learn, reinforce, and master information literacy skills relevant to the course level.

Dr. Rivera will also be working with Prof. Brannon on revising a course, "Introduction to Research Methods," to include embedding information literacy assignments and activities. 

As part of this partnership program, both Justice faculty members will receive iPad minis to assist with the development of their course revisions. They will also create course guides to be published on the Consortium Library website, document and assess their projects, and make a presentation to UAA faculty about their work in Spring 2014. 

Justice Center participates in planning for UA online repository of institutional scholarship

The Justice Center is a member of  the UA Institutional Repository Review Advisory Board which is reviewing the development of an online site for digital copies of research and scholarship by UA faculty, students, and staff. The goal is to provide free, public access to digital documents. The working title for the site is Scholarship@UA and is currently scheduled to go live in Fall 2013.

UAF, UAA, and UAS are the primary participants in this first phase. Research from other campuses will be added in the future. Stephen Rollins, Dean of the UAA/APU Consortium Library; Rebecca Moorman,  Head of Technical Services, Consortium Library; and Barbara Armstrong, Alaska Justice Forum editor, UAA Justice Center, represent UAA on the board.

Alaska Justice Forum 2010 and 2011 issues now in EBSCOhost Criminal Justice Abstracts database

The 2010 and 2011 issues of the Alaska Justice Forum are now "live" in the EBSCOhost database "Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text."   Additional issues of the Forum will be added over time. 

Criminal Justice Abstracts is available on the Consortium Library website with a link to digital copies of the Alaska Justice Forum. Digital copies of the Forum from 1993 to the present are also available on the Justice Center website.

EBSCOhost of EBSCO Publishing is the leading search platform for full-text online research databases in institutions worldwide. "Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text" includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology and contains more than 300,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than 200 magazines and journals, as well full-text books & monographs.

Justice Center participates in banned book read-out at Consortium Library

Kristi Powell (left) and Barbara Armstrong

The UAA/APU Consortium Library held a Banned Books Read-Out on Monday, September 26 from 12 noon - 3:00 p.m. to kick-off the observance of Banned Books Week (Sept. 24 - Oct. 1) sponsored by the American Library Association. Twenty-six readers participated in the UAA event.

Barbara Armstrong, Alaska Justice Forum editor, and Kristi Powell, UAA/APU Consortium Library Student Worker Supervisor/Reserves Manager, teamed up to read from Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits.  Barbara read from the original Spanish version and Kristi from an English translation. 

KTVA Channel 11 News covered the Read-Out. The video story is below.  Click here for the online article.