From the monthly archives: June 2011
I’m just back from the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans and taking the time to do something I typically neglect in favor of moving on to the next project or task on my To Do list: reflecting on my work. In this case, I’m thinking of the work my team members and I [...]
Continue Reading →There seems to be a lot of buzz around the unconference concept. My colleague Luba Zakharov recently gave a presentation on unconferencing at the American Theological Library Association annual meeting, and she’s started a new blog. The unconference concept is, simply, a participant-driven event where attendees create the agenda on site and do [...]
Continue Reading →Duke Libraries regularly engage in assessment in order to gauge the value of services offered, determine future needs, and improve the overall library user experience. In many of the posts on the Instruction & Outreach Blog we have focused on library assessment as it relates to student learning outcomes, but what actions do librarians [...]
Continue Reading →It’s official: Duke is transitioning from Blackboard to Sakai as its university-wide Learning Management System (LMS), and work is well under way to migrate Duke’s course sites into its new (and improved) LMS.
As some of you know, we’ve done quite a bit here at Duke University Libraries to embed library [...]
Continue Reading →Amidst the regular ebb and flow of library instruction activities, last year I led a library task force that looked at the changing role of the subject librarian/liaison librarian. It was a great group to work with – my colleagues modeled best practices for collaboration – and the result of our efforts is a Continue Reading →
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