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A weight off my shoulders
I know it's been a while since I last posted. I've almost written a few posts on the vitriol I've been seeing from librarians on social media over the past couple…
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Free and Cheap Technologies to Supercharge Your Teaching
Just gave a fun whirlwind instructional technology talk and I wanted to provide the slides and links below for the attendees (and anyone else who's interested). Slides: Links: Tools for…
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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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On tenure, after three years on the tenure track
Way back in 2005, I wrote a post about tenure for librarians in which I argued against it. Since then, I've spent six years as a librarian with faculty rank and…
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Is your big deal a good deal?
We've all suspected it. We've all talked about it. Some have even written and spoken at conferences about it. But now we have hard evidence that there is incredible variation…
Getting into the gray areas with the draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
This semester, I'm teaching I new course I developed for San Jose State's MLIS program entitled "Embedded Librarians/Embedded Libraries: Embedding the Library into the Fabric of Higher Education." It's been…
Don’t go it alone. On the benefits of collaboration.
I don't have all the answers. There, I said it! I'm a pretty smart person who did well in school and has been relatively successful in her career, but I…
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Creating safe spaces vs. freedom of expression
I don't really think of myself as a victim. I feel exceptionally lucky when I think of the life I've had so far. I grew up in an upper middle…
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Why I Teach Freshman
In September, I went to a lecture given by Allison Head of Project Information Literacy fame at a local university. During the lecture, she offered a preview of the research…
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I hate to say “I told you so.” Drawing the line with HBR.
Over four years ago, I wrote a post about how EBSCO had shut off my institution's links to all Harvard Business Review articles after we declined their "generous" offer to…
Opening up knowledge on the tenure track
I'm not a hero. I'm not an open access warrior. I'm not one of those people who would risk their career on the cross of Open Access. I'm not a…
Library DIY has been released!
This is just a quick note to say that Library DIY (which I wrote about in a previous post) has been released! I am so very proud of this project.…
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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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Good for what? Considering context in building learning objects.
I'm working with a colleague of mine (Amy Hofer of Threshold Concepts fame) to create a suite of tutorials that are going to be integrated into online University Studies (think…
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Managing the “whole person”
I've been wanting to write about managing people for a long time. This post has been marinating in my head for years and a few things managed to knock it…
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Our new model for Freshman instruction and how it went
One year ago, I became our General Education Instruction Coordinator, which meant that I was in charge of our instruction to Freshman Inquiry and Sophomore Inquiry (our first and second…
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Library DIY: Unmediated point-of-need support
I recently realized that while I write about a lot of things, I do not often write about the work I'm doing at Portland State and through the Oregon Library…
DIY vs. Startup, or false dichotomies and labels
ACRL was a terrific conference experience for me. Not only did I get to see a lot of good friends and have a lot of deep conversations with other instruction…
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Mobile Learning: The Teacher in Your Pocket
There's a great new book out on mobile technologies in libraries and I was fortunate to have been asked to contribute a chapter on mobile learning and mobile instruction in…
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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…
