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Showcasing The Authentic Student Experience: The Library And Student Mentoring Partner To Create A First-Year Library Ambassador Program, Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Barbara Herrera, Sara Demoss
Showcasing The Authentic Student Experience: The Library And Student Mentoring Partner To Create A First-Year Library Ambassador Program, Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Barbara Herrera, Sara Demoss
Library Faculty Publications & Presentations
This poster outlines CSU, San Bernardino’s (CSUSB) Library Ambassador initiative, a partnership between the Pfau Library and the Office of Undergraduate Studies’ Student Mentoring Program that aims to connect students in first-year courses with peers knowledgeable about library resources and services. The poster includes the history of the program, which was piloted in 2016, and addresses some of the challenges and successes encountered along the way. It details the program’s student-focused philosophy, which strives to combat library anxiety by ensuring that early exposure to the library centers authentic student research experiences, concerns, and needs. The Library Ambassador program also allows …
Adding Zest To Opac Instruction: Humor And The Unexpected, Bonnie Petry
Adding Zest To Opac Instruction: Humor And The Unexpected, Bonnie Petry
Library Faculty Publications & Presentations
This article evolved from " Getting Students to NOTIS, "
a presentation that the author gave at the 1995 Chicago NOTIS Users
Group Meeting (NUGM) conference. Humor is a desirable element of
all types of instruction, particularly bibliographic instruction. A good
method for injecting some humor into bibliographic instruction is
introducing whimsical catalog entries. The author identifies five types
of bibIiographic records useful for this approach, provides strategies for
locating them, and suggests ways to incorporate them into a class.
Charting A Career Path In The Information Professions, Leslie M. Kong, R.A H. Goodfellow
Charting A Career Path In The Information Professions, Leslie M. Kong, R.A H. Goodfellow
Library Faculty Publications & Presentations
Academic Librarians play an important role in promoting information management and information literacy. This paper develops a career path model for academic librarians, delineating primary roles, psychological issues, required competencies, and strategies to attain those competencies at each state. Human resources planning implications for information organizations are also discussed.