Generosity at work
It seems to me that the interconnectedness of our work makes us library folk frequent collaborators. It often takes a number of people working together, for example, to select, acquire, receive,...
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Making strategy more transparent
I’m not one to make new year’s resolutions, per se. Still, I have been trying to work on something resolution-esque in the past few months, or maybe even for a year now, although it didn’t begin with...
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Information literacy strategies and student agency: Connecting the dots with...
I’ve mentioned before (like here, here, and here, for example) that I’ve been trying to get students to think metacognitively about the strategy of their work. Such a lens helps students turn a...
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People and place: Musings on organizational culture
Last year, a few of my colleagues and I were awarded a small grant to develop an information literacy learning community for faculty, librarians, and staff in regional colleges and universities. In...
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Asking questions to create opportunities for conversation and learning
I was chatting with one of my colleagues the other day about challenges he’s been experiencing recently in some of his one-shot information literacy classes. He regularly makes time in class for...
View Article“Playable, not just performable”: Telling the story of information literacy
I was reading Carrie Brownstein’s book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir, a month or two ago, and a particular passage grabbed me so much that I keep going back to it. If you don’t know Carrie’s...
View ArticleAttempting to complicate students’ news consumption
“Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t really understand the situation.” –Edward R. Murrow This past semester, per usual, a faculty member who teaches political science at my institution asked her...
View ArticleWhat does open pedagogy for information literacy look like?
We’re launching Domain of One’s Own at my institution this year. If you haven’t heard of Domains, it’s a program that helps institutions offer students, faculty, and staff online spaces that they...
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Exploring artifacts of students’ learning trajectories, or The view from here
I’ve been serving on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at my institution for a little over a year now. If you’re not familiar with the purpose and scope of an IRB, it’s generally the group’s charge...
View ArticleStraight talk: Inviting students’ perspectives on information literacy...
My colleagues and I received a grant from our regional consortium to develop information literacy continuing education opportunities for faculty, librarians, and other stakeholders at our institutions....
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