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Join us for a fascinating, lively discussion as we talk with Char Booth about her book, Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators.  Discussion includes becoming a reflective teacher and master of instructional literacy, and how both the book's pedological frameworks and practical worksheets both help inform this process. And we also learn about Char's most embarrassing moment of teaching! Char Booth is the Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at Claremont Colleges Library. She blogs at info-mational, http://infomational.wordpress.com/, and tweets at @charbooth.  Char recently won the 2012 ACRL Rockman Publication of the Year Award, and begins as an ACRL Immersion Faculty Member this year.

This publication was created to serve as a practical guide for instruction coordinators and managers to use in the environmental analysis of their own unique situations. Information provided here includes nationally-established guidelines, suggestions of possible local resources to consult, questions to ask, and sources for additional reading.

Instruction Librarians wanting to understand how to effectively engage in their institution's instructional environment would benefit from using this workbook. The workbook guides practitioners through an environmental scan and provides information such as nationally established guidelines, possible local resources to consult, questions to ask, and sources for additional reading.

The December issue of the ILA/ACRL Newsletter is now available. It includes the President's Piece by Rebecca Funke and news from libraries across the state.

The Attaining Information Literacy Project has focused on identifying first-year college students with below-proficient information literacy skills, gaining an understanding of those students' self-views and perceptions of information literacy, gaining an understanding of their instructional experiences and preferences, and developing an intervention that will address their instructional needs. Focus groups were conducted with students with below-proficient skills to determine their instructional preferences. The findings from the focus groups indicate that students place a high value on personal relevance in the knowledge and skills they are learning, and they prefer a combination of demonstration and hands-on activities, interaction with the instructor and other students, and the availability of supplemental instructional materials in the form of handouts. In addition, they feel that incentives to participate in instruction are crucial and that a number of communication strategies are needed to advertise effectively the availability of instructional sessions.

During the ILA Planning Day meeting, this book was recommended as it has interesting ideas on what associations such as ILA and ILA/ACRL should do to stay relevant.

Interesting article on using citation analysis data to inform the selection of resources for subject guides.

. . . we leave out one crucial point: A membership in a professional association is not the same as being involved in professional service. Taking an active role in your professional organization is also a way to cultivate leadership skills you can't gain from volunteer or part-time work. Focus your attentions less on building a resume and more on improving libraries.

At our last board meeting we talked about our commitment to keeping our membership and conference costs for students low enough so they can be part of a professional association. This article suggests we go one step further and have them on our committees to gain "hands-on" experiences. With this in mind, the directory committee is adding a SLIS student to our committee to give her "hands-on" experience in our association.

This month, I'll be trying out some PKM workshops such as "Get Organized", "Stay Current" and "Managing Privacy Online". I'm hoping they will be more popular than some of our database-specific workshops and it will be a good opportunity to sneak in some info-lit skills as well.

Everyone may have seen this article already but wanted to share! Features the University of Iowa!