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A Bit on Backwards Design and Assessment

Last week I had the privilege of presenting at the North Carolina Library Association’s College & University Section and Community & Junior College Libraries Section‘s Assessment Beyond...

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The Next Chapter

I have been quiet here lately. It’s all the normal reasons: work is busy, several professional obligations, family life is full of adventures. But there’s also been something else going on behind the...

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Worksheets for Information Literacy

Today I had the pleasure of co-presenting a workshop on the basics of information literacy assessment with Amanda Click for Libraries Thriving. We presented at 8am and 1pm my time, with a good crowd...

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A Chapter Ends, A Chapter Begins

Tomorrow I start my new job, at a new library, so though I still have a few posts in the queue related to the work I had been doing, I wanted to write a post about what it was to work at ZSR, mostly...

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A Series on Teaching Strategies for Librarians: Teaching Styles

This post is part six of a fourteen part series, Teaching Strategies, that is based on a series of education workshops. I’m documenting the content for myself, but hopefully it will also be useful to...

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My #ACRL2013 Experience

In my former job, we all posted to a shared blog about conference experiences, and I’d tend to report in great detail. However, (at least to my knowledge) that’s not an expectation at my new...

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Library Learning Goes Online: American Libraries Live Episode

Today I had the great pleasure to participate in an American Libraries Live episode on Library Learning Goes Online. Dan Freeman, Online Learning Manager for ALA Publishing, organized and pulled...

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20 Days of Blogging: A Challenge for an Absent Writer

I’ve been having a lot of conversations about blogging lately, for whatever reason. It feels like 2005 again. And, like most people who have been blogging for a while, I’ve been through several periods...

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Point of Need Teaching, in a Database, to Make all of Our Lives Easier

And in the spirit of quick posts for my 20 days of blogging plan…. We’re working on a project right now, at my place of work, to develop an online learning platform. We’re early into the project, but...

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Help Unglue So You Want To Be A Librarian

You guys, I have some exciting news! With Unglue.it’s relaunch, So You Want To Be A Librarian will be a new campaign! Help Unglue So You Want To Be A Librarian! from lauren pressley on Vimeo. What’s...

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A Bit on Backwards Design and Assessment

Last week I had the privilege of presenting at the North Carolina Library Association’s College & University Section and Community & Junior College Libraries Section‘s Assessment Beyond...

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The Next Chapter

I have been quiet here lately. It’s all the normal reasons: work is busy, several professional obligations, family life is full of adventures. But there’s also been something else going on behind the...

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Worksheets for Information Literacy

Today I had the pleasure of co-presenting a workshop on the basics of information literacy assessment with Amanda Click for Libraries Thriving. We presented at 8am and 1pm my time, with a good crowd...

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A Chapter Ends, A Chapter Begins

Tomorrow I start my new job, at a new library, so though I still have a few posts in the queue related to the work I had been doing, I wanted to write a post about what it was to work at ZSR, mostly...

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The Dog Days of Summer

I seem to remember a time in which summers were calm, and academic years were busy. And I remember the point in which the summers got busier and we all joked about how we’d get through the busy summer...

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100 Days At a New Place

I thought I’d wrap this week’s posts up with a summary of the first 100 days on the job as Associate Director for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech Univeristy Libraries. For those who have been...

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The Importance of Phrasing: Librarians as (Virtual) Community Builders

So my boss wrote a blog post. And I’m totally down with it. In it he talks about “personalized virtual communities for teaching and research” and says: I think we’re seeing a shift occur. In the past...

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A Presentation on Presenting

Today I gave a webinar for the NCLA Technology & Trends Round Table. Their conference is coming up, so they hosted this webinar to help people get ready. Here’s hoping you’ll have a great...

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New Media for the Fall Semester

I am thrilled to be involved in the Virginia Tech New Media Faculty Seminar this semester. This interdisciplinary group includes staff, faculty, administrators, and grad students from across the...

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The Importance of a Research Agenda

I’ve been having conversations lately about the importance of a research agenda. To me, it seems very closely to the discussion of goals that pops up from time to time. Some of my professional friends...

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