Papers/Presentations and Publications

Recent Presentations

Presenter. California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference 2008 "Going Global: Academic Libraries in the Age of Globalization." Program:InfoLit Global: Building a Directory, Sharing Ideas and Resources. Friday, April 4, 2008. CARL 2008 program website.

Presenter. California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference 2008 "Going Global: Academic Libraries in the Age of Globalization." Program: Understanding our First Years- Three Studies and a Comparison. Friday, April 4, 2008. Presenters: Gabriela Sonntag, Librarian, Sharon Hamill, General Education Assessment Coordinator, California State University San Marcos; Karen Brodsky and Erin Bower, Librarians, Sonoma State University; Linda Goff, Librarian California State University, Sacramento. CARL 2008 program website.

Speaker. Information Literacy Section. Visibility for Information Literacy Work: The International IFLA/UNESCO IL Resources Directory and the IL International State of the Art Report. World Library and Information Congress: 73nd International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) General Conference, August 20, 2007, Durban, South Africa. IFLA 2007 Program website.

Convener. Information Literacy Section Open Session, Conduits for Transformation: Incorporating Multimodal Instruction and Learning into Information Literacy. World Library and Information Congress: 73nd International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) General Conference, August 22, 2007, Durban, South Africa. IFLA 2007 website.

Convener. Information Literacy Section Open Session, Transitions to college: how information literacy answers the knowledge society challenge. World Library and Information Congress: 72nd International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) General Conference, August 22, 2006, Seoul, South Korea. IFLA 2006 website.

Speaker. LOEX of the West Conference. Federated Searching - A Pedagogical Controversy. Roundatable Discussion. June 9, 2006, Kohala/Kona, Hawaii. Program website.

Presenter. Search Smarter- Improving Your Search Strategies. Mountain Valley Library System Workshop, March 16, 2006, Sacramento, California.

Speaker. RUSA/MARS  Products and Services Committee Discussion Forum, Using WebCT to Test and Teach, ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 11, 2004, San Diego, CA.

Panelist.  Serving the Information Literacy Needs of our Graduate Students: Collaborative Strategies for Success.  
LOEX of the West, Friday June 28, 2002, Eugene, Oregon.

Speaker. Assessment of Information Competency Programs at CARL Annual Conference, Asilomar, Saturday, May 11, 2002.

Panel Moderator.  Redefining and Redesigning Library Instruction,  CCLI North Spring Program, April 25, 2002.

ALA Poster Session.  Information Literacy for Future Teachers, Monday June 18, 2001.

Moderator and Program Planner, Information Competency: Planning a Statewide Approach, CLA Annual Conference, November 17, 1996.

Publications

• Goff, Linda J. and Robert Locke, eds. Library Instruction Handbook Information Competence at the CSUS Library. Calif. State University, Sacramento, 11th edition, January, 1999.
• Goff, Linda J. and Robert Locke, eds. Library Instruction Handbook A Guide to Thinking Critically and finding Information. Calif. State University, Sacramento, 10th edition, January, 1998.
• Goff, Linda J. and Robert Locke, eds. Library Instruction Handbook. Calif. State University, Sacramento, 7th edition, 1995. 8th edition, January 1996.
• Graduate Research in Social Work. 2 videocassettes (134 min.) Sacramento, Calif. : University Media Services, CSU, Sacramento, 1995.
• Audio Tour. Sacramento, Calif. : University Media Services, CSU, Sacramento, 1996.
  Checkpoint Tour. Sacramento, Calif. : University Library, CSU, Sacramento, 1997.
• Welcome to EUREKA. videocassette (22 mins.) Sacramento, Calif.: University Media Services, CSU, Sacramento, 1992.
  

Research Projects/Interests

Ms. Goff has 3 decades of experience in academic and public libraries, with specialization in library instruction, instructional media and technology, database and Internet searching, social science reference, local and oral history, genealogy, library advocacy and community outreach. One of her goals is to make sure all CSUS students know how to get the most out of their searches on the World Wide Web and know how to evaluate their search results. She is known throughout California libraries as a strong advocate for integrating library and information competence into the curriculum in public colleges and universities as well as in the K-12 level.  She chaired the Testing Subcommittee of the CSU Information Competence Assessment Task Force and is onvolved in the efforts to validate the new Information and Communication Literacy assessment instrument (now called iSkills) developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in partnership with the California State University System. Her most recent grant project will use the ICT Assessment to establish a baseline for evaluating Freshmen Information and Communication Technology literacy at her institution.

• Co-Principal Investigator with Lynn Tashiro for Project "Baseline" : Information Literacy Study and Assessment of California State University, Sacramento Freshman Programs. Funded by California State University Chancellor's Office for two years, 2006/07-2007/08. The First Year Report is available at:http://library.csus.edu/services/inst/ProjectBaseline/index.html
• Coordinated Beta Testing on the CSUS campus for the Information and Communication Technology Literacy assessment instrument developed by the Educational Testing Service.  August, 2004.  The CSU system is in partnership with the ETS and large scale testing is scheduled for February and March of 2005.
• Fully implemented the Information Competence for Communication Studies Project during the Fall, 2000 semester. This project integrates an IC tutorial using WebCT into all Communication Studies 4 and 5 classes as a required part of their course. Fifty-five sections, with 1,500 students participated during this first term.  This ongoing project has been updated annually and reaches approximately 3,000 student per year.
• Awarded a grant with Roz Van Auker for $4,940.00 from the CSU Information Competence Work Group to provide information competence (IC) skills to future K-12 teachers and to stimulate the teaching of these skills at the K-12 level. This project will be in development during Spring and Fall 1999 and will be implemented during the Spring 2000 term. For detailed information about Information Competence at CSUS and a copy of the grant proposal click on the link to the CSUS Information Competence For Future Teachers Proposal and the Project Report.  A poster session was given at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, June, 2001.
• Received assigned time to represent the Library in the Fall Fellows Program a semester-long grant writing workshop designed by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Fall 1994.
  Received $4,760 mini-grant to conduct "Faculty Survey of Course Related Library Use and Information Literacy Instruction," Spring, 1994. Survey results have been used to guide direction of Library Instruction Program.
• Awarded $1,500 from California Council for the Humanities for Japanese-American Collections grant to purchase display panels, June 1995.
• Served on the Inter-segmental Information Literacy Task Force, on a grant funded by the California Community College Chancellor's Office which published its final report, entitled: Bibliographic Instruction/Information Literacy: Articulation Between the California Community Colleges, California State Universities and University of California Systems, March 15, 1994.

Professional Associations

Ms. Goff is active in a variety of professional library associations. She has an enduring commitment to professionalism within librarianship. She also believes that she has a responsibility to maintain the Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians recommended by ACRL/IS.

A list of leadership roles, committee memberships and conference/workshop participation follow:

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Member 1972-74, 1980- 
Elizabeth Futas Award Jury, 2004.
Round Table Coordinating Committee Representative to the ALA 2001 Conference Program Planning Team, 1999-2001.
LIRT Representative to the ALA Membership Promotion Task Force, 2000/04.

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Member 1980-
Member, Instruction Section, 1980-
Member, University Libraries Section, 1980-  

Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT)  Member 1990-
ALA/LIRT Representative to the Information Literacy Section Standing Committee, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Four year appointment (2005-2009)
Member, Conference Program Committee, 2004-2008
Member, LIRT Steering Committee,1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01, 2001/02
Chair, Public Relations/Membership Committee, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03
LIRT Representative to the ALA Membership Promotion Task Force, 2000/04
LIRT Secretary, 1998/99.
Member, Public Relations/Membership Committee, 1993/1998
Profiled in the Member A-LIRT column of the LIRT News, December, 1994.

As an active member and committee chair, Ms. Goff has attended both Annual and
Midwinter ALA conferences since 1993.  The photos she took of LIRT activities at the annual 
conference in Toronto, June, 2003 can be viewed here.  For photos of the 2002 Conference in
Atlanta and the LIRT 25th Anniversary, click here

CALIFORNIA ACADEMIC & RESEARCH LIBRARIES.  Member, 1987-

Member, Nominating Committee, 2002.
Member, Ad hoc Task Force to Recommend Information Literacy Standards to Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 1996/97. Participant CARL Information Competence in the Emerging Digital World, Oct. 25-26, 1996.

CARL - SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians)

CALIFORNIA CLEARINGHOUSE ON LIBRARY INSTRUCTION  Member 1987- 

Treasurer,  Northern Steering Committee  1987 to date. Program planner, registrar and speaker
 for numerous workshops.   Panelist at 2002 spring program.

CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION  Sacramento Chapter: Member 1987-

Membership Chair 1988-90, Secretary 1990-91.

CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.   Member 1980-

Member, Nomination Committee, 2003/04.
Academic Section Representative on CLA Assembly, 1998/1999
Member-at-Large of CLA Assembly, 1995/98.
Member, Public Relations Committee, 1993/97 .
Member, Finance Committee, 1996/98
Member, Membership Strategies Task Force, 1996/97.
Member, Task Force for Library User Education, 1988/90
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on User Education Standards, California Society of Librarians, 1988-89

International Federation of Library Associations

Member, Information Literacy Section Standing Committee.  Appointed March, 2005, for four-year term.  Linda attended IFLA in Oslo, Norway 2005 and served as the program convener for the Information Literacy Section Open Session in Seoul, Korea 2006. In 2007 IFLA was held in Durban, South Africa and Linda again convened the Information Literacy Section program. The papers for the section on the theme, Conduits for Transformation: Incorporating Multimodal Instruction and Learning into Information Literacy (program #133-1 and #133-2), are posted on the IFLA 2007 website.

Linda Goff is the editor of the IL Section Newsletter in 2008.

Other conferences are planned for Quebec City, Canada in 2008 and Milan, Italy in 2009.

The Information Literacy Section has complete a UNESCO funded project, Information Literacy an International State-of-the-Art Report which can be downloaded from http://www.infolitglobal.info/. Linda Goff wrote the chapter on the United States and Canada, pages125-142, and will serve on a panel at the 2007 IFLA conference: Program #99, Visibility for Information Literacy Work: The International IFLA/UNESNO IL Resources Directory and the IL International State-of-the-Art Report, August 20, 2007.

LOEX of the West

2006 Speaker. (June 9, 2006) "Federated Searching - A pedagogical Controversy" Roundatable Discussion.
2002-2004, Member, Paper Review and Selection Committee.  (June 2-4, 2004: "Teaching the Treasures."  Boise State University, Idaho).  For photos Linda took at the Boise Idaho conference, click here.  
2002  Speaker.  (June 26-28, 2002: "Expanded Conversations:  Collaborating for Student Learning."

Personal Interests

A native of Sacramento whose family arrived in California in 1904, Ms. Goff has lived in six different U.S. states as well as Japan and Canada.  She attended Encina HS locally and served as chair of both her 30th and 40th high school reunions. She loves to travel, take pictures, sing, read, research and occasionally putter in her garden and backyard .  She is a genealogist and has several Puritan ancestral lines in addition to the Goff line.  Linda is active in several Masonic fraternal organizations and is a Past Matron of El Camino Chapter #428, Order of the Eastern Star.  Recent trips include: Northern Italy, Ireland and Scotland, New Zealand and Australia, Norway, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea and South Africa.

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