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Building Staff Morale and Creating a Positive Workplace
(2012)Libraries often have arbitrary divisions among staff members - librarians vs. paraprofessionals, technical services vs. public services, staff vs. students, etc. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's McIntyre Library ... -
From Prix Fixe to A la Carte: Using Lesson Study to Collaborate with Faculty in Customizing Information Literacy
(2012-05)What began as a ?lesson study? assessment of the one-shot library instruction session in an English composition class grew into an on-going collaboration and integration into a major revision of the English composition ... -
Library Instruction as Participatory Art: Engaging Students with Tablets and Active Learning
(2016-06-01)Participatory art engages its audience in the creative process. Similarly, librarians from UW-Eau Claire are engaging their students by “flipping the classroom” and giving students the opportunity to collaborate and actively ... -
Management of Library Course Reserves and the Textbook Affordability Crisis
(2009-10)Students at U.S. colleges and universities are concerned about the high cost of textbooks. Expansion of library course reserves has been suggested as one solution to this problem. The authors surveyed libraries at public ... -
Mind the Generation Gap: Millennials & Boomers in the Library Workplace
(2010)The Millennial Generation, also known as Generation Y, the Net Generation, and Echo Boomers and defined as those born between 1981 and 2000, is entering the library workforce in greater numbers every year. In recent years, ... -
Quick and Dirty Library Promotions That Really Work
(2010-09)The University of Wisconsin?Eau Claire?s McIntyre Library promotes the library and its services in various ways. Over the past few years, the library has used inexpensive, quick to develop marketing tools to establish ... -
The Relevance of Academic Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
(2013)The biggest challenge facing the library profession in the twenty-first century is staying relevant to its users. It is often stated that the Internet and Google have changed librarianship. This challenge, while significant, ... -
Revising the "One-Shot" through Lesson Study: Collaborating with Writing Faculty to Rebuild a Library Instruction Session
(2013-07)The one-shot library instruction session has long been a mainstay for many information literacy programs. Identifying realistic learning goals, integrating active learning techniques, and conducting meaningful assessment ... -
The Stone Soup Approach to Creating a Library Makerspace
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-02-02)Students acquire, communicate, share and create knowledge through more than the printed word, and libraries are in a position to provide equitable access to a variety of multimodal resources enabling students to do so. ... -
Student Strategies for Coping with Textbook Costs and the Role of Library Course Reserves
(2009)College and university students across the United States are concerned about the cost of textbooks. This study examines the student patterns of coping with textbook inflation and the role that course reserve collections ... -
Talkin bout My Generalization: Confronting Assumptions About Attitudes Toward Reference Service in the Changing Library Workforce
(2011)A profession that has long been dominated by the Baby Boom generation is ushering in new generations of librarians. Because the shift in the library workforce is creating a new intergenerational mix of co-workers, librarians ... -
Using Lesson Study to Integrate Information Literacy Throughout the Curriculum
(2013-07)The purpose of this article is to describe the process of developing an information literacy curriculum for a cohort of students over a 5 semester nursing program using lesson study. The overall goal was to enable undergraduate ... -
Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy
(2008)Today?s college student often starts his/her research by using a search engine. Because of this, Wikipedia is increasingly becoming the go-to reference resource for the newest generation of students. However, many students ... -
When Students Accept Their Corporate Overlords: Privilege and Position in Our Information Society
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Writing Library Database Descriptions in Plain Language
(College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2022-12-09)Plain Language is writing intended to be easily comprehensible by its intended audience. Used in government, legal, medical, and now educational writing, the primary goals of Plain Language are greater usability and equitable ...