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House Of Cards: The Academic Library Media Center In The Era Of Streaming Video, Rachel King
House Of Cards: The Academic Library Media Center In The Era Of Streaming Video, Rachel King
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
In a time of increasing financial pressures on universities, the expense of library resources—and the potential for cost inflation—threaten the academic library collection. This article asks whether the academic library media center will be able to continue to offer a stable inventory of films, given the legal and commercial structures currently in place. It provides a history of the film industry’s interactions with its intermediaries, forecasts some of the obstacles to ongoing feature film affordability and access in libraries, offers strategies for librarians, and suggests some cause for hope.
Administrator Interest Is Perceived To Encourage Faculty And Librarian Involvement In Open Access Activities, Eamon Tewell
Administrator Interest Is Perceived To Encourage Faculty And Librarian Involvement In Open Access Activities, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
A Review of: Reinsfelder, T.L., & Anderson, J.A. (2013). Observations and perceptions of academic administrator influence on open access initiatives. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39(6): 481-487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2013.08.014
Interdisciplinary Librarians: Self-Reported Non-Lis Scholarship And Creative Work, Susan E. Thomas, Anne Leonard
Interdisciplinary Librarians: Self-Reported Non-Lis Scholarship And Creative Work, Susan E. Thomas, Anne Leonard
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interpret and discuss survey results of a study of academic librarians’ scholarship and creative work outside of library and information science in order to reveal some librarians’ motivations to perform such work as well as their perceptions of administrators’ attitudes toward it. Design/methodology/approach – The authors published a link to a qualitative survey instrument on COLLIB-L and ULS-L, the e-mail lists for the college libraries section and the university libraries section of American Library Association, asking that only academic librarians engaged in scholarship and creative work outside of library and …
What Stand-Up Comedians Teach Us About Library Instruction, Eamon Tewell
What Stand-Up Comedians Teach Us About Library Instruction, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
In the article, the author discusses the various lessons that could be learned from a performance of a stand-up comedian which can be used for library instruction. The four lessons include knowing how to read an audience, diversifying one's teaching methods, and relating on a personal level. It features the works of comedian and entertainer Joan Rivers as example.
Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski
Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Information literacy instruction in libraries is organized by the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. Currently under revision, these Standards define a set of external, abstract learning objectives that have been productive of a teaching role for librarians. Simultaneously, the Standards have generated a substantial critical literature that contests the objectives as a “Procrustean bed” that distracts from the particular teaching and learning contexts. This paper offers an alternative organizing heuristic for instruction in libraries. Kairos is an ancient Greek theory of time married to measure. Used by both Plato and the Sophists to understand the emergence of truth from context,kairos …
"Punk-Ass Book Jockeys": Library Anxiety In The Television Programs Community And Parks And Recreation, Eamon Tewell
"Punk-Ass Book Jockeys": Library Anxiety In The Television Programs Community And Parks And Recreation, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Library anxiety, defined as the fear of using libraries, is a psychological barrier that impedes academic achievement and the development of information literacy. Using key episodes and protagonists from Community and Parks and Recreation, this paper will demonstrate how library anxiety is represented in these series. From the infamously manipulative public librarian Tammy Swanson in Parks and Recreation to the library as pillow fight battlefield in Community, these indications of anxiety towards libraries will be evaluated with the intent of illuminating current discourse in popular television regarding library use.
Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell
Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Many components of Information Literacy (IL) are too massive to be addressed in a single instruction session, yet an introduction to these concepts is essential for students' academic careers and intellectual development. This study evaluates the impact of applying excerpts from television comedies that illustrate ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to library instruction sessions for first-year students. Pre- and posttest results from 193 subjects and interview data from two focus groups indicate that television comedies can be integrated into one-shot instruction sessions to demonstrate IL concepts in an accessible and dialogue-provoking manner.