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Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure May 2015

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure

Gayle Schaub

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is …

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Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark Dec 2013

Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

This is a pre-publication author manuscript of the final, published article.
Purpose: This paper describes techniques librarians can use to enhance their online presence
so that students, patrons, researchers, and prospective employers can locate them easily. It is
an extension of a presentation given at the Association of College and Research Libraries New
England Chapter Annual Conference held in Worcester, MA on May 9, 2014.
Design/methodology/approach: The presentation focused on a number of established and
emerging tools to share professional contact information and professional output, such as
Google, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, SlideShare, and ImpactStory, among others.
Findings: The audience of …

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Institute For Research Design In Librarianship (Irdl), Kristine Brancolini, Marie Kennedy Dec 2013

Institute For Research Design In Librarianship (Irdl), Kristine Brancolini, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

Institute of Museum and Library Services, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant, continuing education, 2014-2016.
Academic and research librarians and their institutions derive well-established benefits from librarians conducting research: progress toward gaining promotion, tenure, and higher salaries; advancement in the profession and recognition; receptivity to change; increased skill in managing complex library operations through systematic study; and better service to and empathy with faculty researchers. We know, however, that these librarians may not be well positioned to conduct research, resulting from any number of barriers. We aim to remove some of the noted barriers (reported lack of time to …

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It Takes A Village: Transforming Students Into Professionals Via Library Research Collaboration, Colleen Boff, Julie Hodges Nov 2013

It Takes A Village: Transforming Students Into Professionals Via Library Research Collaboration, Colleen Boff, Julie Hodges

Colleen T. Boff, Ed.D.

Details about a collaboration between an edcuation faculty member and a librarian are offered. They worked together to show students how to identify research studies that addressed instructional strategies for use by teacher practitioners responsible for making adaptations to the learning environment.

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Creating Online Tutorials For Freshmen, Anne Grant Jul 2013

Creating Online Tutorials For Freshmen, Anne Grant

Anne Grant

In the Fall of 2012, the teaching librarians at Clemson decided to move the freshman library experience online. Previously, over 200 workshops were provided each Fall semester for all incoming students and for the first time in 4 years, those workshops were replaced with online instruction. Join Anne Grant, instruction coordinator, as she talks about the way this change happened and hear about preliminary assessment data.

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Teaming Up: Benefits Of Collaborating With Library Colleagues, Kim Cornell, Lise Doucette, Dan Sich Jul 2013

Teaming Up: Benefits Of Collaborating With Library Colleagues, Kim Cornell, Lise Doucette, Dan Sich

Dan Sich

When looking to increase communication and collaboration in our library, we created a team of physical sciences/engineering librarians, library assistants, and administrators. Together, we work on setting priorities, sharing expertise, and developing skills. In three years, we have moved from traditional subject-based instruction responsibilities to working as a team to prepare and co-instruct classes. By sharing with you the benefits of our team-based system to our librarians, library system, and users, we want to inspire you to think about how to implement a similar system in your own library.

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Information Workers In The Academy: The Case Of Librarians And Archivists At The University Of Western Ontario, Melanie Mills Apr 2011

Information Workers In The Academy: The Case Of Librarians And Archivists At The University Of Western Ontario, Melanie Mills

Melanie Mills

For much of its history, the organizational culture for academic librarians and archivists at The University of Western Ontario was primarily a culture of the practitioner. While librarians and archivists supported teaching, research and service at Western, they did not directly engage in it. As a result of grassroots efforts undertaken by members of Western’s academic community in the mid-2000s however, the potential contributions of information workers to the teaching, research and service mandate of University began to garner recognition. Born out of this collective awakening, a successful union drive and shortly thereafter an inaugural Collective Agreement for The University …

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