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2011

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Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Oct 2011

Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

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What happens when librarians decide to radically change their reference service model? Our presentation will discuss the impact of the new model on librarians’ time and workload, student assistant perspectives on their new roles, and the student training program developed to support student assistants at the desk.


Beyond The Basics: How Can Librarians Teach What We Truly Care About?, Christopher Sweet Apr 2011

Beyond The Basics: How Can Librarians Teach What We Truly Care About?, Christopher Sweet

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Most research instruction sessions do very little in the way of inspiring creativity among students. The great majority of these sessions engage students only at the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remembering and Understanding). This often occurs by necessity- someone has to teach students research basics before they can ever hope to use research as part of a creative process. At the same time, we didn’t become librarians because we were passionate about Boolean operators! How can librarians move beyond the basics and begin to teach big-picture information literacy concepts such as intellectual freedom, critical thinking, and ethical use of …