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It’s hard to believe that the end of the spring semester is upon us already, but LDOC (Duke-speak for “last day of classes”) is Wednesday, and exams end May 5, which means that it won’t be long before the results of students’ hard work begin streaming into my inbox. That’s right: May 15th is [...]
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, [...]
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I was fortunate this week to have time to attend part of this year’s CHAT Festival (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts, & Technology), conveniently hosted at Duke and just outside my office for much of the week. On Monday afternoon, I attended a faculty panel highlighting successes and lessons learned from the [...]
Continue Reading →Happy New Year from Instruction & Outreach! As is always the case, the winter break has sped by, and the start of the spring semester is right around the corner. In this last week before we welcome back our students, I feel fortunate to have had a number of opportunities for professional development.
I attended [...]
Continue Reading →I know, I know. You read a blog post with the same headline this time last year, but bear with me…
As Diane mentioned in her 2010 Thanksgiving post, we have a number of things to be grateful for here at Duke — interesting and motivated colleagues, engaging and meaningful projects, supportive library [...]
Continue Reading →As I mentioned last August, one of the Libraries’ special projects I find most fulfilling and rewarding is the Durden Prize program, which recognizes undergraduates’ excellence in research, including their analysis, evaluation and synthesis of sources, and encourages students to make use of the general library collections and services at Duke University. The [...]
Continue Reading →This summer, I committed to changing something – anything! – about my standard library instruction session. Sure, I tailor sessions to students’ assignments and professors’ desired learning outcomes, but I felt my basic format was a bit, well, stale.
I decided to experiment with the way I ask students to share their topics or [...]
Continue Reading →Diane and I are pleased to announce that Erin Carrillo and Amber Welch have joined the Instruction & Outreach Department for the fall.
In fact, you may have noticed Amber’s name this summer, as she joined us for a field experience in June and hit the ground running by [...]
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 →In 2002, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and secondary education and a job in a public high school. After a year of teaching high school English that was as gratifying as it was exhausting, I moved across the country to a school district with no openings in my field. On a whim [...]
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