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Primo's Newspapers Search: Identifying Authentic News Articles In The 21st Century, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair
Primo's Newspapers Search: Identifying Authentic News Articles In The 21st Century, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
After assessing 60 sophomores' ability to identify news articles, I started a pedagogical journey to address how students can identify and evaluate authentic journalism and news articles rather than blog posts, web sites, vlogs, or propaganda. This presentation covers my instructional shift; especially, in regards to turning on the Newspapers Search scope in Primo. Good journalism informs good citizenship, so I am particularly keen to improve the user's experience discovering the resource type, Newspapers, in Primo.
The Many Faces Of Instruction: An Exploration Of Academic Librarians’ Teaching Personas, Elena S. Azadbakht
The Many Faces Of Instruction: An Exploration Of Academic Librarians’ Teaching Personas, Elena S. Azadbakht
Communications in Information Literacy
While several studies explore whether librarians think of themselves as teachers, how librarians construct their teacher identities has received less attention in the literature. This project used semi-structured interviews with eighteen academic librarians in the United States to gain a sense of their teaching personas and how these have developed and evolved over time. The participants valued authenticity but were also able to quickly adapt their personas to different contexts. Librarians wish to be seen as friendly experts and develop their values-based teaching personas slowly over the course of their careers. The results of this study can help shape professional …
The First-Year Library Instruction One-Shot: A Place For Caring, Leah Morin
The First-Year Library Instruction One-Shot: A Place For Caring, Leah Morin
Communications in Information Literacy
An academic librarian providing one-shot instruction sessions to first-year students is uniquely positioned to enact a feminist ethic of care in the classroom. First-year university students are particularly in need of caring. The library instruction session is often their introduction to and first impression of the library and an opportunity to inspire a relationship with the librarian and library. The instruction session, then, should be seen as an open door to a future relationship between librarian and student. The librarian is not the professor and, therefore, has the freedom to focus a primary learning objective on caring.