Archive for the ‘instruction’ Category
love your trainer [podcast]
Posted by: annavan on: 2011/06/01
Episode 26 of Adventures in Library Instruction is a book club of sorts. Rachel, Jason, and I discuss Lori Reed and Paul Signorelli’s book, Workplace Learning & Leadership: A Handbook for Library and Nonprofit Trainers, specifically how the content and resources relate to instruction librarians. A couple of things became obvious as I read the [...]
adventures in library instruction w/ erin mooney [podcast]
Posted by: annavan on: 2011/05/11
Episode 25 (and our 2-year-anniversary) of Adventures in Library Instruction is spent with the lovely Erin Mooney, from Emory University. It was a reunion of sorts, while the four of us chatted about the changes the library and the university have made to first-year orientation. The library’s segment has been consistently evolving. Emory is a [...]
episode 24, adventures in library instruction [podcast]…
Posted by: annavan on: 2011/04/07
Things we talk about in Episode 24: Conference debriefings (THATCamp and Computers in Libraries); Crazy ideas regarding technology’s role in “next generation” professional development, scholarly communication, and professional contributions;” Rachel’s officially blogging her quest for programmatic information literacy; Jason’s progress with his all online, asynchronous Zotero course for GSLIS’ Continuing Education at Simmons College; and [...]
one database too many…
Posted by: annavan on: 2011/04/07
A lesson I constantly have to re-learn when it comes to instruction: less is more. Back in the days as an academic librarian, especially when I first started teaching, I tried to show students EVERY little thing the library could offer — in a ONE shot session to boot. OY VEY! I started paring back [...]
adlib instruction, episode 22 w/ catherine pellegrino
Posted by: annavan on: 2011/01/23
It was a great experience getting to chat with Catherine Pellegrino [Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator at the St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana] for our first podcast of 2011. Not only do I love saying Catherine’s last name over and over, but her blog, Spurious Tuples is a must follow. Due to Wi-Fi [...]
