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Stratification and losing faculty status
I was surprised when I read a couple of weeks ago that the University of Virginia was taking faculty status away from its librarians. Even more surprising was the fact…
Shared vision, transparency, and the high performing organization
As I've mentioned before, Lisa Hinchliffe and I presented on and authored a paper for the Library Assessment Conference in October. The spoke about applying the High Performance Programming Model…
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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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Gender, “thought leaders”, ego, and subversion
Lots of people have been writing about Ask Miss Julie's post Ego, thy name is librarianship. Julie is a talented and humorous writer and a hard-working and innovative children's librarian.…
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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 entrepreneurial library
Years ago, I visited the libraries at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. After lots of conversations, the one word that stuck with me was entrepreneurial. The library faculty there…
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Getting out of your own story
When I was a psychotherapist, I was drawn to narrative therapy and cognitive therapy in my own work with clients. Both support the idea that the way people view and…
Living our values
I have wanted to write about so many things that have come across my desktop lately, but work and getting ready for a major trip to New Zealand with my…
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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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Broad vs. deep in information literacy instruction
When I was at Norwich, my focus was often on increasing our instruction stats. My Director wanted to see us doing more instruction and being in at least two classes…
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Setting priorities
In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its…
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No, we can’t do it all
So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. We hear…
Up to my neck in… well, everything.
You know you're a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can't do that you miss the most is blogging.…
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.…
Classic blunder #1 – Let’s just try it and see what happens!
There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. These can be assumptions about the change process, assumptions about our…
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The elusive dream of work-life balance
I have been wanting to write a post on work-life balance for a while, especially after spending a week at ACRL Assessment Immersion with a bunch of people who are…
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“I need three peer reviewed articles” or the Freshman research paper
For the past six and a half years, I have been teaching Freshman about peer-review and how to find peer-reviewed articles through the library (or Google Scholar). I've developed all…
Invisible goalposts, support and having a plan
This summer, I was engaged with quite a few projects (several of which I was in charge of), but was able to make time to focus on scholarship just about…
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Becoming Zen in the face of criticism
It's been extremely challenging to post here regularly (though I'm getting better about it!), not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of down-time. Summer came…
