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Way back in March, I attended the ITIG DigiCamp (and blogged about it here, here, and here), and saw a tool I decided to try in my information literacy class this spring. Jason Soohoo from the Salem State College Library showed us how he uses Xtranormal videos in his LibGuides to get students’ attention and [...] NELIG’s Fall 2010 Meeting is scheduled for October 22, 2010 from 9am to 12pm at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. Mary MacDonald (URI) will be giving the presentation: “Finding the Right Information Literacy Fit for Your Institution: It’s All in the Design.” Following this will be a discussion of the ACRL Immersion program by Immersion [...] Project Information Literacy just released a new report about handouts used for research assignments. This reminds me that even if we are not “embedded” or invited into the classroom to teach, promoting the use of our handouts to supplement courses may be a way to collaborate with classroom faculty and address some of the issues [...] While many students are gone for the summer, some of us are as busy as we are in the academic year, just with different tasks! The relative quiet sometimes offers time to go back and catch up on reading, and start thinking about plans for the coming year. For some time, part of the process [...] If you have a minute over the summer, check out and create an account at the Academic Library Learning Network, a newly formed social network for librarians who are involved in research and instruction. It was created by Ramona Islam, a Curricular Design and Research Librarian at Harvard College Library, in 2009. As of June [...] Now that the materials from the New Hampshire Library Association’s Spring 2010 Conference are available online, I wanted to mention a few of the instruction-related items that came up. After the keynote speech, I attended the Academic Librarians Roundtable, in which a small but enthusiastic group of librarians (including some great non-academic librarians) shared some [...] - NELIG Conference – June 4th at Yale West Campus – Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are – New Standards for the New Student 3 Presentations - Information Seeking Habits of College Students – Using Assessment to Help Build Better IL Programs - Assessment as a best practice for reaching students - IL Environments – [...] Whatever your feelings are on EBSCO’s exclusive licensing agreements (http://www.gale.cengage.com/fairaccess/), it is undeniable that EBSCO provides an easy to use search interface. A few years ago they introduced an additional search feature (under the “Search Options” Toolbar) called “SmartText searching.” SmartText searching is a natural language search strategy that allows the user to [...] Do your students text all the time? As a reference librarian at Bryant University, I notice our students texting constantly. At a recent conference several of my colleagues saw a demonstration of Poll Everywhere (http://www.polleverywhere.com/), a text message voting application that allows students in library instruction classes to participate using their cell phones. You [...] NELIG is now requesting proposals for its annual program “Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student,” to be held at Yale University’s West Campus in Orange, CT, on Friday June 4, 2010. This year’s program will explore ways that librarians are rethinking information literacy instruction in light of today’s student [...] |
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