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You could learn a lot from us: community college librarians at ACRL

ACRL was ridiculously amazing this year. I feel energized, affirmed, and hopeful (and completely exhausted and sick since it ended). The programming was so high-quality and relevant that, in most…

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Framework? Standards? I’m keeping it local.

I'm sure most of you have already heard that the ACRL Board has decided to adopt the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. What I think is more interesting…

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Reflections on library assessment and the Library Assessment Conference

I wanted to write about the Library Assessment Conference as soon as I returned, but unfortunately, life got in the way. I got barely a week and a half before…

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Come hear me talk assessment at a free C&RL online event

I was pleased to see that the latest Ithaka S+R U.S. Library Survey looked at how libraries are conducting assessment and how useful their results have been. Even better, they…

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Understanding why errors happen is more important than spotting them

People incorrectly using "big words" has always been one of my pet peeves. When I see a fancy word used incorrectly in a cover letter (and I have seen way…

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My critique of Value of Academic Libraries and a happy update

My critique of the Value of Academic Libraries initiative has just been published in OLA Quarterly (it's the first article in the PDF). I wrote it on the fly after…

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Assessment on the brain

This has been a crazy year, full of a lot of research and activities centered around assessment. From my participation in RAILS last Spring, to my Assessment LibGuide, to my…

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Self-efficacy in retention and how we can help build it

A little while back, I wrote a post about the role of narratives in our lives. The stories we tell about our lives that inform the way we see ourselves…

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The devil you know in first-year instruction

It's pretty clear from the comments on my recent posts that many of us have a sense that the sort of information literacy instruction we're providing is not having the…

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Behavior vs. belief and changing culture

At LOEX of the West this summer (a fantastic conference, btw), Joan Kaplowitz did a session where she started by asking attendees what words they associate with assessment. I won't…

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Classic Blunder #2 – Assuming resistance is a bad thing

I remember when I was in library school, a lot of people talked about librarians who were resistant to change and would try to derail your exciting and innovative projects.…

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Portlandia

Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I've been wanting to post about so many things in the past two months (especially just about everything Barbara Fister has been writing over at Library…

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Numbers vs. meaning

Forgive this less-than-well-thought-out post. I've been thinking a lot about assessment lately and the librarianly love of numbers in assessment, and I'm a troubled by the way that some academic…

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Shades of gray

Ever since the news of LibLime's enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I've been thinking about how black and white…

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Consistency or effectiveness in instruction and assessment

The part of my still new-ish job that causes my the most worry is assessment. I'd hoped to have time this summer to do some serious research on information literacy…