Speaking
I have given over 100 presentations to small local audiences, mid-sized regional groups, and large national and international audiences. I have presented both face-to-face and online using just about every…
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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…
Leaning into the messy world of work-life balance
It's easy to be self-righteous when you're pregnant. At least it was for me. It was very easy for me to clearly define in my own mind what sort of…
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…
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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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The right to create our own digital footprints?
There are things on the Internet about me that I regret. Things that embarras me. Things that make me cringe. However, it's nothing that I didn't do to myself. I…
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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…
