The Ultimate Library Experience! Educate. Entertain. Empower.
Thank you Patricia Bellamy for compiling and organizing the results of the “snowball” exercise held during Megan Oakleaf’s December 2011 presentation to U of T librarians. The snowball exercise contained questions that each of had remaining at the end of the day. We scrunched up each question into a ball, tossed it into the middle of the room, and then picked up and answered one of the balls (not our own). This is the result.
Megan Oakleaf provides an easy method to conduct a study to determine what kind of help users received from their library. http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/?p=285
An entire issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning (Winter 2011) devoted to the topic! Excellent articles reviewing evidence (or lack thereof!) of many modes of teaching — lectures, problem-based learning, case studies, team-based teaching, just-in-time teaching, computer-assisted learning, service learning, online learning.
From her March 2012 article in American Libraries, Char Booth reminds us that mirroring the best practices of colleagues—while adding your own pedagogical tweaks to the mix—is what moves the profession forward.
This presentation – available through Slideshare - followed by discussion delivered on Wed 7th Sep 2011, during the Journal Club meeting at the infolit iSchool, the virtual space of the University of Sheffield in the UK.
I often look to our UK higher-ed neighbours like JISC and the Research Information Network (RIN) for deeper insights on information literacy and its future direction in the academy. So I was particularly interested in these predictions by JISC’s head of innovation, Sarah Porter, on how the jet-fuel of technology will change the nature of the academy.
I was particularly struck by the prediction that “…the added value of face to face educational experiences will start to break down,” and that “organizations will start to think about services, not systems.” Whatever you take from this, there are big changes coming. Read the entire set of predictions.
Hold the date! The next University Teaching and Learning Symposium is set for November 5 2012.
Proposal deadline: April 30, 2012. Proposal notification will occur by May 21, 2012.
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I posted a few photos from yesterday’s event held in the AMR and lab here at Gerstein: Out of Cite! Citation and Document Managers for Serious Researchers. We had about 60 people attend from all over the university and hospitals (mostly in the sciences). We had reps from 5 products (Sente, Papers, Mendeley, Wizfolio and Zotero) on hand to give lightening talks and demo their products.
You may recognize a couple of faces: Our own Jeff Newman was the “rep” for the open source software Zotero, and Scholars Portal librarian Jacqueline Whyte Appleby covered Wizfolio.
Here’s the link https://picasaweb.google.com/103348258727593605353/OutOfCiteDocumentAndCitationManagersForSeriousResearchersMarch282012
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