UT Library Directors' Award - Past Winners
William C. Davis from the University of Texas-Brownsville was the Library Directors' Award recipient for 2008. His course, Psyc 2102: Orientation for Psychology Majors, illustrated a number of creative uses of library resources throughout the semester. He incorporated tutorials and online learning modules designed to help orient students to research methods and materials, made extensive use of the library's online databases, and created interesting web-based activities for students to practice their research skills. The class was taught as a hybrid class, with 90% of the class activities online. His heavy emphasis on online, library-based research allowed students who were not always able to make it to campus to learn how to better judge online materials and choose the most appropriate resources for their research.
UT Library Directors' Award Winners Announced at IOL 2007
Science education instructors Drs. Rebekah Nix and Cynthia Ledbetter won the 2007 UT Library Directors' Award for Excellence in Library Resource Integration for their SCE 5305 course titled Evaluating Research in Science Education.
Finalists for the award included:
- UT Austin Department of Art and Art History faculty who teach ART 304K: Two Dimensional Foundations including: Bob Anderson – Foundations Director; Jason Buchanan; Jade Walker; Katalin Hausel; Kate Horsfield; Luanne Stovall; Margaret Meehan; Michael Ray Charles; Neal Daugherty; Peter Tucker; Robert Boland; Steve Daly; and Susan Whyne.
- UT Dallas faculty member Marilyn Kaplan for her course BPS 6310: Strategic Management.
- UTMB Galveston faculty members: Debra Munsel, Julie Trumble and Bruce Niebuhr for the course PHAS 5207: Clinical Medicine II.
June 7, 2006 – The second annual UT Library Directors’ Award for Excellence in Library Resource Integration was presented at the Innovations in Online Learning (IOL) Conference in Austin on June 2, 2006 to the University of Texas School of Public Health course, Systematic Reviews and Evidence-based Public Health. The course creator, Dr. Patricia Mullen was honored for her use of librarian services and library resource integration in order to achieve desired learning outcomes.
The course was selected from nominations received from across the University of Texas System. Three courses were named as finalists. In addition to Dr. Mullen’s class, finalists included UT Pan American’s History The Formative Era in U.S. History (Dr. Christopher Miller) and UT Dallas’ Individual and Society (Andrea Laurent-Simpson).
In presenting the award Dr. Fred Heath, Vice Provost and Director at the University of Texas Libraries praised the efforts of faculty and librarians in their efforts to promote information literacy and lifelong learning. Systematic Reviews and Evidence-based Public Health was selected due to the inclusion of a librarian in the course who lectured on selection of topic-appropriate databases, development of a search strategy, citation checking, and use of bibliographic management software. Specific library databases, such as Medline, PsycINFO and Web of Science were highlighted.
This award was created to recognize outstanding online web-enhanced or hybrid courses within the UT System that promote and utilize library resources and services.
June 8, 2005 - The first annual UT Library Directors’ Award for Excellence in Library Resource Integration was presented at the Innovations in Online Learning (IOL) Conference in Austin on June 2, 2005 to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston course, Practice of Medicine Year 2. The course creators, Dr. Mark Holden, Dr. Bernard Karnath, and Dr. Cheryl Vaiani, were honored for their exceptional use of library resource integration in order to achieve desired learning outcomes.
The course was chosen among nominations received from across The University of Texas System. Four courses were named as finalists. In addition to the winning submission, finalists included UT Brownsville’s Perspectives on Professional Nursing Practice, UTMB Galveston’s Applied Research Methods, and UT Austin’s Architecture and Society.
In presenting the award, Jeanne Pyle, Director of the Robert R. Muntz Library at the University of Texas at Tyler said, “Practice of Medicine Year 2 was selected due to the advanced integration of library materials, the focus placed on search strategies, the structured interaction and evaluation between students and librarians, the use of a collaboratively authored resource by faculty and librarians, the emphasis on information literacy skills, and the use of these skills for lifelong learning.”
This award was created to recognize outstanding online, web-enhanced or hybrid courses within the UT System that utilize library resources to increase interactivity and reach course learning objectives. It is believed that the award is the first of its kind to encourage the use of library resources.
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