“Teaching in--and about--academic libraries”
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Yvonne M AKA MissCybrarian
New blog post: tracking stats on the impact library instruction courses: http://t.co/On1pjXFJ #infolit #libstats... Interested in submitting a proposal to a highly respected, very well run, very selective conference focusing on library instruction? Think LOEX. It will be held this May 3-5, 2012, in Columbus OH. Library Orientation Exchange ... 
How to Measure (and Improve) Students’ Digital Skills? 12 Ways To Be More Search Savvy : http://t.co/57CfZJa and more information literacy resources to help you #search : h…http://t.co/JbLDCSZ... 
Buffalo NewsIt's a brave new world at the libraryBuffalo NewsSullivan suggested library instruction will no longer be necessary as information literacy is integrated into curriculums, book collections become obsolete and reference services disappear. 
In teaching more “traditional” bibliographic instruction sessions for first year students and for history majors, I teach hands-on by showing students how to engage with the research process. 
USA TodayStudy: College students rarely use librarians' expertiseUSA Today"Some students did not identify that they were having difficulties with which they could use help," wrote anthropologist Susan Miller and Nancy Murillo, a library instruction... 
So as a new grad and someone actively involved in information literacy instruction, in my mind I make pedagogically-significant distinctions among the following: bibliographic instruction, library instruction, ... 
As a cultural anthropologist and researcher in the modern discipline of digital ethnography, Michael Wesch likes to ask the big, complex questions: How do we find meaning and significance in the digital age? RT @jesuslau: Latest MIL Pub: http://t.co/5MJI8r2 #WLIC2011... 
RT @clairebrooks: #infolit new book, more:Information literacy: infiltrating the agenda, challenging minds http://ow.ly/650jm #library #informationliteracy... 
Jason's Zotero book is out, and we talk about teaching Zotero and other reference manager programs.(MP3 link: circa 1 hour)Links and notes:Char Booth’s Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library EducatorsCirculating... |
Information literacy, digital literacy and digital citizenship: http://t.co/AxJNGlrG |Tech Transformation...
So as a new grad and someone actively involved in information literacy instruction, in my mind I make pedagogically-significant distinctions among the following: bibliographic instruction, library instruction, ... The teaching librarians here are gearing up for another semester of classes which begin next week. In some of the classes we do, we like to use different sorts. 
Recorded presentations of the 2 Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium are available online, and I happened to catch one entitled “Does Library Instruction Make a Difference?” The speaker was Melissa Bowles-Terry, and she ... 
Library Instruction 2.0 - a few ways to incorporate technology and increase student engagement http://t.co/3YHjzFA... Offer Bibliographic Instruction/Orientation sessions on library research methodology for classes in various disciplines. Provide reference, research, technical, and circulation assistance to users in the library. 
I think it is an important thing to teach in our present (and hopefully future) climate of transliterate library instruction, where many different types of media are used to not only join in on the conversation but to ... 
In fact, library instruction had been taught in universities as far back as the Civil War. Indeed, academic Lamar Johnson is credited with laying the foundations of bibliographic instruction when he offered tours of the library with ... 
Public Services/Information Literacy Librarian (Western State College Savage Library, Colorado) http://t.co/Pp7uwRB #jobs... 2011 Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, September 23-24, 2011, Savannah, GA. Register for the Georgia International Conference on ... 
"The curriculum was developed and piloted as part of the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition (RVHCC) Health Information Literacy Outreach project" (in the USA). It includes learning goals, materials to use with ... 
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I like this. It was interesting tuning in to Presidential candidates Obama and Clinton in addition to listening to the whole concept of plagiarism.