June 2012
8 posts
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Open Courses and Libraries
College and university enrichment classes, extension programs, and lifelong learning initiatives intended for back-to-schoolers, career changers, and members of their communities general are nothing new. What’s new within the last few years is the offering not only of courses like these, but of full-scale academic content, online for anyone who wishes to to take advantage of it. These range from...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Constructivist Web...
(Presenter: Candice Benjes-Small, Radford University)
This workshop might have been tailor made for me: it’s the perfect expansion of a website evaluation exercise that I already do with students in my library workshops. Usually we’ll do a web search together, then pick a site to talk about. The problem with this approach is that students are sometimes reluctant to speak up in front of the whole...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Exploring the Unmapped IL...
(Presenters: Lynn Lampert, Susanna Eng-Ziskin, and Coleen Martin, CSU-Northridge)
This presentation on adapting reference, instruction, and outreach programs to changing user needs and expectations gave me some potentially useful ideas. (To begin with, I’m going to read Reference Renaissance.) It was also reassuring to know that this large state institution’s efforts were very much in line with...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Texts, Lies and Videotape
(Presenter: Marisa Diehl)
Plagiarism is frequently, probably usually, treated as a malicious, deliberate act by someone who doesn’t want to do their work—despite evidence that a lot of plagiarism by students is unintentional, and often occurs because students don’t really understand what plagiarism is. Marisa Diehl, Head of Instruction and Research Support at Occidental College, reinvented a...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Not at Your Service:...
(Presenters: Allison Carr and Yvonne Meulemans)
We’ve all had it: that one (more than one!) faculty member who’s going to a conference and can I send my students to the library that day so they don’t waste class time and you can teach them everything they need to know about literature searching at the academic level in 50 minutes? (This is extra special when there’s no assignment or project for...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Our presentation
Amy and I presented on “Taking Root: Creating a Culture of Outreach” which is, at its core, an attitudinal mindset of constantly scanning for opportunities to partner with other organizations and departments on campus: with faculty, with administrative departments, and with student organizations. When Amy came to us a few years ago as instruction coordinator, I advocated strongly that she be...
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LOEX of the West 2012: Introductory post
I had the pleasure and privilege of attending LOEX of the West this year, though I might not have if my colleague hadn’t invited me to co-present with her. I’m still looking for a conference to attend during ACRL’s off-years. I’m not sure whether LOEX is it, but it was a very positive experience. (It’s also the first professional event I’ve attended where people have come up to me and said, “Hey,...
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Inside Higher Ed: Publishers' Fallback Position →
And publishers wonder why librarians think they’re being adversarial.
