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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Revamping A Freshman Seminar Information Literacy Program, Amanda Izenstark, Mary Macdonald
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Revamping A Freshman Seminar Information Literacy Program, Amanda Izenstark, Mary Macdonald
Amanda Izenstark
Learn how the University of Rhode Island Library renewed their freshman seminar information literacy sessions without reinventing the wheel. Get ideas for reviving your current presentation and engaging students, while providing first year students with a broad view of your library space and services in 50 minutes or less. This renewed Library Experience program is an engaging and flexible three-part program that introduces students to a multitude of services, spaces and ideas about the who, what, when, where and how of an academic library. The new program reduces student boredom and librarian apathy through a model that accommodates differences in …
Using A Rubric To Assess Freshman English Library Instruction, Susan Gardner Archambault, Elisa Acosta
Using A Rubric To Assess Freshman English Library Instruction, Susan Gardner Archambault, Elisa Acosta
Elisa Slater Acosta
Ordering Up Gimlet For Data Mining Success., Susan Gardner, Ken Simon
Ordering Up Gimlet For Data Mining Success., Susan Gardner, Ken Simon
Susan Gardner Archambault
Making Reference Service Count: Collecting And Using Reference Service Statistics To Make A Difference, Judith Garrison
Making Reference Service Count: Collecting And Using Reference Service Statistics To Make A Difference, Judith Garrison
Judith Garrison
The Association of Research Libraries requirements for quantifying reference services are inadequate for a complete and accurate reflection of the complex nature of modern reference services. Using resources at hand, a medium-size academic library created an online system to collect, store, analyze, and use reference statistics. Information is entered at the point of service in a Web-based interface located on the computer desktop of each librarian. When record keeping and reporting processes were customized, automated, and made accessible to librarians, the data collected proved invaluable in tracking trends in reference service, monitoring library initiatives, and providing reference librarians information for …
Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner
Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner
Elisa Slater Acosta