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interviews with 2012 movers & shakers….

Posted by: annavan on: 2012/05/21

Steve Thomas, via his Circulating Ideas podcast, interviewed some of Library Journal’s 2012 Movers & Shakers. If you haven’t given it a listen, give it a go! The interviews are a great way to augment the Library Journal profiles; and in my opinion, the interviews really bring each recipient’s award to life. Each interview has it’s own [...]

Our dear Rachel was battling a stomach bug this month, but Jason and I had the great pleasure to chat with Meredith Farkas, head of instruction at Portland State University in Oregon, for Episode 35 of the Adventures in Library Instruction podcast.  Our discussion revolved around Meredith’s recent column, “The Guide on the Side“, in American [...]

This month Jason, Rachel, and I had the opportunity to talk with Theresa McDevitt and Ryan Sittler, editor of and contributor to, the newly published book, Let the games begin!: Engaging students with field-tested interactive information literacy instruction. We discussed the role of games [No technology required!] in the library classroom and their value in instruction [...]

‘Tis the season for instruction/teacher librarians to teach, teach, and teach some more.  I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion Jason, Rachel, and I had during episode 29 of Adventures in Library Instruction. We talked about strategies librarians can take — as individuals and as a department/instruction team — to relieve stress, specifically stress revolving around class [...]

This month we talk data services and instruction. Now before all you humanities types run away … relax. There are great resources Lynda Kellam, the Data Services and Government Information from UNC-Greensboro shares during Episode 28. My personal favorite resource she shares — Junk Charts. Lynda’s pulled “junky” charts (i.e., data being misrepresented, data displayed [...]


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