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If At First You Don't Succeed In Your Instruction Methodology, Try, Try Again, Katelyn Angell, Eric Shannon

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Teaching, by its very nature, is a trial and error process. Experimenting with a variety of methods of pedagogies is an integral part of determining which strategies demonstrate the greatest possible learning outcomes. One would be hard-pressed to meet an academic instruction librarian without at least one concrete example of a teaching method or educational activity that was not a success within the library instruction classroom. However, these incidents are critical learning experiences that inspire instruction librarians to grow and develop their teaching practice, hopefully in tandem with student feedback, opportunities for assessment, and the support of departmental colleagues.

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When Your Info Café Fails, Think Of Your Lms As Take-Out: Learning From The Services Students Won’T Use To Create The Services They Will, Elizabeth Chase, Patricia Mcpherson, Heather Perry

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

In 2012 we transformed our obsolete periodicals desk into The Info Cafe, and planned a series of information skills workshops for that meeting space. In an effort to encourage attendance at those drop-in sessions, we partnered with the our institution’s merit point program to offer points to each student who attended a twenty-minute workshop on topics ranging from searching a specific database to using a particular citation style. The merit point system, which was discontinued in 2015, provided a range of opportunities for students to amass points that contributed to their odds of getting their preferred choice in the institution's …