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Georgia Library Spotlight - Roddenbery Memorial Library, Nora Bennett

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Georgia Library Association - New Members Round Table, Ashley T. Hoffman

Georgia Library Quarterly

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My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Amy Mcgee

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Can Library Research Be Fun? Using Games For Information Literacy Instruction In Higher Education, Jennifer Young

Georgia Library Quarterly

Collectively, the world's population spends about 3 billion hours a week playing video games. To reach game-playing audiences of all ages, educators, including library instructors, are embracing game-based learning to engage and motivate students the same way that games do. In looking at the collective wisdom on what makes a good game, and providing concrete examples of library gaming projects, this paper discusses the best practices for creating virtual and virtual-reality hybrid games for bibliographic instruction. The author explores the literature on gamification and games used for teaching information literacy in higher education, and provides recommendations gleaned from existing research …

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News - Gwinnett County Public Library, Clifford Ibarrondo

Georgia Library Quarterly

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My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, John Mack Freeman

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Effective Collaborations In Multi-Campus And Online Environments Using Libguides, Rebecca Rose, Mary Ann Cullen, Sofia A. Slutskaya

Georgia Library Quarterly

The paper presents a series of case studies that describe and demonstrate successful collaborations created via partnerships with instructors, departments, and other groups in both multi-campus and online environments at Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) where all three authors worked together as librarians for five years. The case studies illustrate the use of LibGuides in building librarian-librarian and librarian-faculty partnerships to support teaching and other campus activities. This discussion includes successful strategies for establishing connections and adopting LibGuides as communication tool for collaborative projects.

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