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As a new Research & Instruction Librarian at ZSR, I had the unique and special opportunity to observe multiple LIB 100: Academic Research & Information Issues sessions facilitated by four different instruction librarians. The experience was unique because most Research, Instruction, & Outreach (RIO) librarians have not had this opportunity in their many years at... Continue reading “Colleen’s LIB 100 Experience” ›
ZSR Library invites all Wake Forest faculty teaching divisionals, first year seminars, and introductory writing courses to join us in a 3-day workshop on advancing the information literacy skills of students taking introductory courses. Faculty who would like to further develop or engage with information literacy concepts or skills in their courses are encouraged to... Continue reading “Call for Applications: Faculty Workshop on Integrating Information Literacy Skills in Introductory Courses” ›
The brand-new Special Collections & Archives classroom (ZSR624) hosted its first students today, as Professor Mir Yarfitz’s History 108 class paid a visit to study some 16th-18th century maps from our collection. The new classroom is adjacent to the Special Collections & Archives research room (ZSR625). Previously used for book storage, the space has been... Continue reading “New Classroom Space for Old Stuff” ›
Raise your hand if you’ve been here before: stuck in a library database, wondering why your search for articles about something like the role of computers in childhood development isn’t returning any really good results. Your search might look like this: computers childhood development Seems like a good search, right? Here’s the thing, though: if... Continue reading “Search tip #23: Truncation!” ›
We kicked off Teaching Teaching last Friday with an overview of Instructional Design. I used the very same powerpoint from the first class, which you can see here: What is Instructional Design? View more presentations from Lauren Pressley I am scheduled to be out of town on Friday, so we also discussed how to use... Continue reading “Class 1 & 2” ›
A recent scheduling conflict required me to be out of the office for my first two Lib100 classes this semester. Rather than canceling them I decided to partner with our Cisco Fellow, Gretchen Edwards, to hold the classes online using a system called WebEx. WebEx is a real-time online collaboration tool that includes a suite... Continue reading “Lib100 and Webex pilot” ›
Today was the final day of the teaching teaching spring class. We’ve been at it since January, and we’ve held 14 sessions. We’ve had 14 hours (less the minutes early I left for committee meetings) to devote some serious time to coming together as a group to talk about our teaching and hopefully learn a... Continue reading “Teaching Teaching Wrap-Up” ›