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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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...
View ArticleWorksheets 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMy #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...
View ArticleLibrary 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...
View Article20 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...
View ArticlePoint 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...
View ArticleHelp 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWorksheets 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article100 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleThe 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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