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Exploring Professional Development Models For Dei Pedagogies, Melanie Sellar
Exploring Professional Development Models For Dei Pedagogies, Melanie Sellar
Staff publications, research, and presentations
While our institution has provided many workshops to kick-start DEI awareness, we are exploring different professional development (PD) models for the library. There are many possible ways to structure our professional learning, from reading groups, caucus or affinity groups, communities of practices, and professional learning communities. This lightning presentation reviews and analyzes different PD models for supporting information literacy instructors’ growth in DEI pedagogies and will share the path that SCU Library has chosen for our work.
Exploring The Changing Teaching Practices And Needs Of Business Faculty At Santa Clara University, Nicole Branch, Anthony Raymond, Melanie Sellar
Exploring The Changing Teaching Practices And Needs Of Business Faculty At Santa Clara University, Nicole Branch, Anthony Raymond, Melanie Sellar
Staff publications, research, and presentations
This report will present the findings and recommendations of a study designed to explore Santa Clara University (SCU) business faculty’s current and emerging undergraduate teaching practices. The study was led locally by researchers in the SCU Library, with parallel studies conducted at fourteen other institutions of higher education in the United States during the 2018-19 academic year. These studies were coordinated at the national level by Ithaka S&R, a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change. Ithaka will publish a capstone report of major themes …
Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr
Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr
Staff publications, research, and presentations
Rhetoric and composition scholars have recently called our attention to the value of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, leading to rich collaborations with archivists and librarians at many institutions. As we engaged our own pedagogical collaboration as a university archivist and English faculty member, we realized that, though we might use slightly different language to articulate them or cite different sources in support of them, many of our learning goals overlapped. As we explored these goals together, we realized that they evidenced a correspondence in our disciplines that we had not explored—one that is reflected in our fields’ recent …
Developing A (Boutique) Personal Librarian Program For Transfer Students And Other At-Risk Groups, Shannon Kealey, Helene Lafrance
Developing A (Boutique) Personal Librarian Program For Transfer Students And Other At-Risk Groups, Shannon Kealey, Helene Lafrance
Staff publications, research, and presentations
Transfer students, first-generation college students, those on academic probation, and other at-risk groups may benefit from a Personal Librarian Program more than the average freshman. This presentation describes the planning, implementation, and assessment of a boutique program targeting such groups. We discussed group selection, our collaboration with campus units, the involvement of librarians, marketing activities, the challenges we encountered, and the results of our assessment. We shared best practices for establishing such a program, and discussed our concerns regarding its long-term sustainability. Attendees completed an exercise to explore the viability of such a program at their institutions, and to determine …
Personal Librarian Program For Transfer Students: Email Templates, Helene Lafrance, Shannon Kealey
Personal Librarian Program For Transfer Students: Email Templates, Helene Lafrance, Shannon Kealey
Staff publications, research, and presentations
These email templates are provided for use by librarians who wish to establish a Personal Librarian Program on their campuses. They are available for non-commercial remix and reuse with some restrictions under a Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.