From the monthly archives: August 2011
Roy Tennant famously quipped that librarians like to search, and everyone else likes to find. While the average user wants to Get the Stuff, librarians are equally interested in formulating the best strategy to Find the Stuff. There has been tension between searching and finding, between efficiency and effectiveness, between – let’s face it [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I attended an ACRL OnPoint virtual chat session hosted by Alice Whiteside and Emily Rimland from Library Learning Services (LLS) at Penn State University Libraries. Alice is also a former Instruction & Outreach field experience student and a recent UNC-SILS graduate. The session was “New Ways to Ask: Poll Everywhere [...]
Continue Reading →You may recall from an earlier post that AUL for Collections and User Services Bob Byrd paved the way for three new student advisory groups last summer. We worked quickly to form and populate these groups, and by early October, the Undergraduate Advisory Board, the First Year Advisory Board and the [...]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago I completed a field experience in Instruction & Outreach, and was fortunate enough to be selected as the new intern for the academic year. As I was reflecting on my experience and setting goals for the upcoming year I began to think about authentic identity in the classroom and [...]
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