Conference Presentation Feedback, Part 8: Getting All Meta
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) Well, this is the final post in the series, and I thought I would wrap up with one last thought, which is to point out that this entire series...
View ArticleACRL Webcast: Classroom Assessment for Information Literacy Instruction
So, remember those two presentations I did last fall? Well, I’ll be reworking and expanding that content, and delivering it as a webcast for ACRL’s e-Learning program on Tuesday, July 19, at 2:00 p.m....
View ArticleWhy it matters how faculty view librarians
I love it when my friend Vardibidian blogs about libraries, because he always has such intriguing and thought-provoking things to say. Yesterday, he had a post that very neatly connected some dots...
View ArticlePhilosophy of Librarianship
There’s a meme that’s been going around lately about people’s philosophy of librarianship. Since I had to write a statement to precisely that effect1 just last month for my pre-tenure review...
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Open Access Pledge
Okay, so Barbara Fister linked to me from her spectacular Library Babel Fish blog at Inside Higher Ed, listing me as one of many pre-tenure librarians who’d signed the Elsevier boycott at The Cost of...
View ArticleRUSQ, Open Access, and Me
In the past week or so, there’s been a bit of a tempest in a teapot surrounding the journal Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ), the peer-reviewed journal of the Reference & User Services...
View ArticleStewardship, Librarianship, the ACS, and us
This blog has been dormant long enough that I think it’s probably okay for me to hijack it from its usual purpose (discussion of the hows, whats, and whys of library instruction) to address an issue...
View ArticleHow we done good
Two Fridays ago was a busy day for me. My campus is trying to start up a first-year seminar (FYS) program as part of our new general education program. We’re working on recruiting faculty to teach...
View ArticleWhat I did during my summer
(The title of this post was going to be “What I did during my summer vacation” except I’m on a 12-month contract.) Maura Smale posted her #summerIdidlist on her blog recently, so since this has been a...
View ArticleWalking the walk may be trickier than it first appears: An open access...
So I’m pleased to report that an article I wrote, “A Preliminary Methodology, and a Cautionary Tale, for Determining How Students Seek Research Help Online,” has been published in the April 2014 issue...
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