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Tag Archives: instruction
Ramping Up Library Tutorials
Temple Libraries has a long history of providing high quality information literacy instruction for courses at Temple. As we continue to learn more and adapt our teaching methods, our Learning and Student Success unit recognized a need to grow our … Continue reading
“why can’t life just be easy !?”
One of our strongest educational partnerships here at Temple Libraries is our collaboration with the First Year Writing Program. Nearly all entering first-year students at Temple take at least one of the courses in this program, so it’s a great … Continue reading
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Assessment Community of Practice Focus: Faculty Survey on Undergraduate Instruction
Last week’s Assessment Community of Practice meeting focused on findings from the Ithaka S+R faculty survey, particularly those related to Undergraduate Instruction. Twelve librarians participated and we were lucky to be joined research project team members (Rebecca Lloyd, Annie Johnson, … Continue reading
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When Numbers Fail Us
The recent election demonstrated in a powerful way the limits of data, in this case a multitude of polling numbers, towards understanding, or planning, for our future. As an assessment librarian who counts on numbers to tell a story, I … Continue reading
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Finding the Sweet Spot for Library Instruction
This month’s issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship features the research findings of Barbara Junisbai, M. Sara Lowe and our own Natalie Tagge, Education Services Librarian at the Ginsburg Health Sciences Library. Natalie and I talked about her compelling … Continue reading
Reports from the Field: Assessment Discussion Group at ALA
The ACRL Assessment Discussion Group meeting is always a bright spot at the ALA conference. The group, with a discussion list of over 400+, suggests topics of interest: this year we talked about assessment of space in libraries and how … Continue reading
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“I Am the Content”: How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
This post re-visits a project I blogged about several months ago. I interviewed Jenifer Baldwin (Head of Reference and Instruction Services) Anne Harlow (Librarian for Music, Dance, and Theatre) and Rick Lezenby (Librarian for Psychology and Political Sciences). They were … Continue reading
Assessment in the Real World
This post was made possible by the excellent notes and input from Laura Chance, temporary art librarian at Paley. Thanks, Laura! Last Friday 12 librarians gathered to talk about feedback received from students participating in the Analytical Reading and Writing … Continue reading
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Survey of Teacher Education Faculty
Jackie Sipes is the Education Liaison and Emerging Technologies Librarian in Research and Instruction Services (Paley Library). Towards the end of the spring semester, Jackie conducted a survey of the faculty in the department of teacher education. Nancy Turner asked … Continue reading
David Murray’s Experience as an Embedded Librarian
David Murray (librarian for History, Latin America, Spanish & Portuguese) in the RIS department partnered with faculty member Ron Webb to teach The Legacy of Mesoamerica this spring. In this conversation with Assessment Librarian Nancy Turner, he describes his work … Continue reading