Approaching graduation and interviewing for jobs has caused me to reflect on what I’ve learned in the past two years and how it’s shaped my instruction philosophy. This is something I’ve had to articulate repeatedly in interviews, and I am happy to say that the experiences I’ve had at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have prepared [...]
Continue Reading →As I’ve mentioned before, one of the clear perks of working on a college campus is having the opportunity to discuss research, teaching, writing and academia with colleagues who are as deeply invested in these issues (if not more so…) as we are here in the Libraries. Such an opportunity presented itself this past Friday, [...]
Continue Reading →In some of our previous posts Diane has encouraged the use of metaphor in library instruction sessions. I have often found it difficult to come up with creative metaphors for research, in light of this I decided to make it a priority to more fully integrate metaphor into my instruction this semester. This is [...]
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What is someone of the Friendly Persuasion doing at boot camp? If it’s about ebooks, I’m there regardless of my philosophy. To coin a profound phrase, “Ebooks are hard!” Okay, not if you’re talking about going to Amazon.com and buying the latest bestseller for your Kindle. [...]
Continue Reading →Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about library instruction and the role it plays within the library and within the lives of the students we teach. One of the functions of instruction I’ve been ruminating on is the idea of instruction as translation.
Let me back up.
In my User Education class last semester Rachael [...]
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