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The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG), an interest group of ACRL New England, is requesting speaker proposals for its annual conference “Connecting to Research through People and Process” to be held at Mount Wachusett Community College, in Gardner MA on Friday, June 1, 2012. This year’s program will explore how instruction librarians can collaborate [...] We have 5 locations for the Winter Meeting on the morning of December 2, each with a great lineup of speakers. Please follow the links below for details for each site. Keene State College, Keene, NH Providence College, Providence, RI Tufts University, Medford, MA University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Western New England University, Springfield, MA [...] Instruction Swap! Morning of Friday, December 2 Often when we are at NELIG events, we hear our colleagues discussing innovative activities they have done with classes at their school. Sometimes we might even watch a great conference presentation where a librarian describes an activity he or she has done with classes, but we don’t actually [...] Registration for NELIG’s Fall Meeting is now full. If you’d like to be added to the waiting list, please go to http://goo.gl/Pd4nR. You will be emailed if an seat opens. One of the more pleasant parts of working here is the chance to observe local, grassroots efforts to counter the structures of oppression that have long been in place. For example, during our first full day in El Salvador we had the opportunity to visit historic Suchitoto, located north of San Salvador near the border [...] It is rainy season in El Salvador, and as it pours here in the capital I looked online for some Zapote school resources. Something I just discovered: Last year, communications students at La Universidad Centroamericana produced a video report on all that’s happening at Zapote school. It includes a lot of stunning views of La [...] As I mentioned in my first posting, I’ve been in El Salvador this month working as a consultant to the nonprofit ConTextos. My project partner, University of Washington I-School graduate Kendra Wright, and I are based at a K-12 school in Zapote, a rural southern community on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Zapote school [...] I’m using my first post as a new NELIG blogger to (briefly) introduce myself to all you Member-Readers out there. I graduated in May from Simmons College GSLIS, where my coursework concentrated on academic libraries, user instruction, and library services to the under-served. Since even before entering library school, I’ve been writing on library-related topics [...] Do you like to blog and twitter? Are you attending the 2011 NELIG Annual Program, on Friday, June 3rd at the UMass Lowell, North Campus? If so, we invite you submit posts to the NELIG blog and Twitter with hash tag #nelig. If you are unable to attend the program, check out the NELIG blog [...] This lively discussion at last week’s ITIG DigiCamp included not only a discussion of the pros and cons of various tools, but also of the importance and the challenges of teaching students the why of citing sources. EasyBib was a favorite for its simplicity, perfect for most undergrad papers. At the time of the discussion, [...] |
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