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Deb Robertson

Becoming a more thoughtful library job seeker - 0 views

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    . . . 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.
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    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.
Sara Thompson

Why I'm not a teacher (Thoughts on ACRL Immersion) « Sense & Reference - 0 views

  • A few weeks ago, I found myself just up the road in Nashville for the ACRL Immersion Intentional Teacher program…sort of a professional retreat for instruction librarians.
  • Part way through the Immersion program, I remembered a great piece that Char Booth wrote for In the Library with the Lead Pipe in which she argued that librarians are persistently beset with similar questions of identity. That is, we have a nasty habit of trying to define our roles by appeal to something other than “librarian”; it’s the “librarian as __________” problem.
  • To put the obligatory philosophical spin on it, the “librarian as __________” issue is an issue of bad faith. In attempting to mold ourselves into the roles we think we should embody, we are only deceiving ourselves.
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  • Librarian as ________ analogies are useful in exploring our response to a critically transformative time in the trajectory of our profession, but their function as metaphor should not be overlooked lest we creep too far from our own (rather amazing) archetype.
  • our library instruction curriculum for the massive First-Year composition program where our most important learning outcome is that students understand how their librarians and their library can help them succeed.
Sara Thompson

23mobilethings :: mobile tools for delivering library services - 1 views

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    "A self paced course that offers library workers the chance to build their awareness, knowledge and skills at their own pace is a fun professional development tool.  This program builds on their concept and seeks to explore the added potential of mobile devices."
Sara Thompson

Invention Mobs by Leeann Hunter on Prezi - 0 views

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    Excellent short Prezi with 3 specific group activity examples that look at creativity, teaching failures, and cross-disciplinary research.  Each activity asks great questions of the group and individuals.  Invention Mobs: recreating creativity and collaboration in the writing classroom -- Leeann Hunter, Georgia Tech -- Roger Whitson, Emory from 2012 Computers and Writing Conference at North Carolina State University ACT 1: Playing with Others Select 2 objects in this room, on your person, or in your bag.  (60 seconds) Form groups and nominate 3 objects that don't belong together (90 seconds) Create a 4-line narrative that presents the objects to a specific audience (120 seconds) Q: How do we define creativity and why is it important?  Q: How do we define mobs and why is collaboration necessary?  ACT 2: Teaching with Others In groups of three, share a failed teaching experiment. (2 minutes) Merge into groups of six, and select three major activities destined for failure.  (3 minutes) Design a large-scale project that revisits and revises these failed teaching experiments. (5 minutes) Q: How do we cultivate creativity in the college writing class?  Q: How do we create effective teamwork structures?  ACT 3: Researching with Others Identify and pair up with your "research opposite." (2 minutes) Share current and recent research projects (3 minutes) Devise a collaborative research project that is also multimodal. (5 minutes) Q: How is interdisciplinary research creative?  Q: What are the possibilities in conducting collaborative and multimodal research?  multimodal:  WOVEN = written, oral, visual, electronic, nonverbal written / visual - document creative process with original art and blog entries oral / nonverbal - analyze and produce professional talks with "ideas worth sharing" a la TED electronic - connect collaborators via social media http://www.leeannhunter.com/invention/
Sara Thompson

Program Description - Library Ambassadors to the Residence Halls - LibGuides at Univers... - 1 views

  • The USC Libraries are seeking energetic incoming freshmen to serve as Library Ambassadors to the Residence Halls for the 2012-13 academic year.  Ambassadors are required to: Attend training sessions scheduled during the first month of classes Outreach to other students living in the Ambassador’s residence hall and be available to those who have questions regarding library research Complete a capstone project to promote the USC Libraries’ services and resources (see below for more information) Represent the Library at campus events Library Ambassadors will receive a $600 stipend awarded in two disbursements: $300 in November 2012 and $300 in March 2013 (contingent on completion of the capstone project).  Ambassadors are expected to keep a log of hours and activities undertaken as part of the position.  Hours will be flexible in accordance with the student’s schedule and life in the residence halls.
    • Sara Scheib
       
      Great idea for getting students involved in promoting library services and resources. I'll be interested to see what kinds of capstone projects come out of this. It might give us all some new ideas.
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