From the monthly archives: September 2010
During the four weeks that Alex and I have been volunteering with Instruction and Outreach, one my projects has been helping with the creation of a LibGuide to assist students of foreign languages, and in particular those learning languages outside the context of a university class.
Consequently I’ve been spending some time exploring the world [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier this week, I wrote about some of the projects that I’ve started to work on as part of the I & O Department. Here is the (brief) continuation of my discussion of “Going Global” at Duke Libraries:
On Monday (I know, that seems like ages ago), Aisha Harvey, the Head of Collection Development [...]
Continue Reading →This week marks the three-week anniversary of my field experience in the Instruction & Outreach Department at Duke’s Perkins Library. Besides all the usual getting-started stuff, both the exciting and the mundane (being warmly welcomed by Emily and Diane, taking a brief tour of the library, gawking amazedly at The Link, setting up [...]
Continue Reading →The start of the fall semester brings two additions to the Duke Libraries Instruction and Outreach department and blog: Alexandra “Alex” Gallin and Jake Vaccaro. Alex and Jake are second-year students at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and, lucky for us, have chosen to complete semester-long field experiences here [...]
Continue Reading →Public services librarians here at Duke just received a pool of iPads to experiment with (thank you, Library Executive Group!). Our colleagues in the Center for Instructional Technology have been keeping us posted about faculty interest in using iPads for instruction, and there are at least two projects up and running. One, giving [...]
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