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Amy E. Vecchione

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Library Instruction Using Mobile Devices, Barbara Glackin, Amy E. Vecchione Feb 2013

Library Instruction Using Mobile Devices, Barbara Glackin, Amy E. Vecchione

Amy E. Vecchione

Albertsons Library has successfully leveraged the use mobile devices for helping students learn research skills. Librarians are now going to classrooms and teaching two instruction sessions — 1) finding information and 2) evaluating information. The library sessions provide hands-on, active learning opportunities for student teams, built around the use of iPads to explore library resources. In fall 2012, this included instruction to seventy-four classes in Boise State's "University Foundations 100" course, the first course in our general education program. Ten classes of junior level transfer students received an additional session — 3) advanced searching techniques. The instruction curriculum is purposefully …

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The Punk Library: Developing Library Instruction In The Mobile Age, Amy E. Vecchione Apr 2012

The Punk Library: Developing Library Instruction In The Mobile Age, Amy E. Vecchione

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Do you teach workshops at your public library? Do you teach middle school students who just want to use Google? Do you teach college level information literacy? If you said yes to any of those questions, this workshop is for you. The material presented in this workshop will help guide you towards new ideas for instruction that use active learning and constructivist principles, particularly how they apply to mobile devices and mobile learning. We’ll discuss how to adapt instruction to the new culture of learning.

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Beyond Foursquare: Library Treks With Scvngr, Amy E. Vecchione, Margaret Mellinger Feb 2011

Beyond Foursquare: Library Treks With Scvngr, Amy E. Vecchione, Margaret Mellinger

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SCVNGR is a game-based geolocation application where users can earn points or gain rewards by completing challenges and treks. Builders design questions that involve text based answers (open ended or multiple choice), QR codes, or photo challenges. Librarians at Boise State University and Oregon State University have built treks and challenges using SCVNGR for library orientations and instruction. They have found SCVNGR a better environment than Foursquare for these purposes. With SCVNGR, students can participate in the challenges and treks using not only their smart phones and mobile devices, but also via text-messaging and laptops. Librarians can easily create multiple …

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Reference Is Neither Here Nor There: Connecting Through Sms, Amy E. Vecchione, Margie Ruppel Feb 2011

Reference Is Neither Here Nor There: Connecting Through Sms, Amy E. Vecchione, Margie Ruppel

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Have you ever wondered what your patrons think about SMS reference service? Do you wonder what other libraries are doing with SMS? Or what types of questions you would be asked through SMS reference service? Don’t try to reinvent the wheel! Join Boise State University librarians Amy Vecchione and Margie Ruppel to learn the results from their recently conducted national and local surveys on SMS reference. By attending this session participants will learn the most common types of questions asked through SMS, ways to market this service, best practices for answering SMS reference questions, and patrons’ perceptions of this new …

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Splat: Spreading Innovation & Ideas, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova Oct 2010

Splat: Spreading Innovation & Ideas, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova

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Libraries are never short on innovation, especially when budgets are lean. How can staff stay on top of the latest library trends, and empower individuals to think “lean and mean” when times demand creativity? One solution, developed in Idaho during a summit on developing services for digital natives, was to create a Special Projects Library Action Team (SPLAT). SPLAT members act in the crow’s nest capacity of technological change. They search and share innovative ideas, leads on projects, and experiment in social media statewide; vet ideas; and bring ideas back to the local level. Supported by the Idaho Commission for …

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Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova Aug 2010

Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova

Amy E. Vecchione

Libraries face shrinking budgets, increased use, and user demand for trending resources. This makes it difficult for librarians to find the time to keep up with innovative technological tools and social media (SM) developments. SPLAT (Special Projects Library Action Team) offers up a new model for enhancing library reference services. SPLAT is supported by the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL), the state agency responsible for assisting libraries. The members of SPLAT are innovation representatives, comprised of library staff who search and experiment with SM trends and online tools, learn, and share the best ways to integrate them into the reference …

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Librarians Building Relationships, Amy E. Vecchione, Terry Madden, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart Jan 2010

Librarians Building Relationships, Amy E. Vecchione, Terry Madden, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart

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Librarian Impressions, Amy E. Vecchione, Sara Seely Sep 2009

Librarian Impressions, Amy E. Vecchione, Sara Seely

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Using Wikipedia As Outreach!, Amy E. Vecchione Aug 2008

Using Wikipedia As Outreach!, Amy E. Vecchione

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