The Librarian's Guide to Teaching: Recent Episodes
Amanda Piekart
This podcast is hosted by two instruction librarians that are interested in sharing their experiences teaching information literacy, discussing current trends, and having meaningful conversations about librarianship.
Show Notes:
In our 11th mini episode, we take a look back at episode number 18 to chat about reflective teaching practices and assessing reflective questions.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Assessing Reflection and Reflection Questions by DePaul University Teaching Commons
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica do a roundup of some really interesting LibGuides projects as a followup to their LibGuides episode, number 23, where they talked about experiences and some pie in the sky ideas.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- SUNYLA Conference 2021 Full Conference Program
- Cal Poly’s Robert E. Kennedy Library's Open LibGuide Review Sessions
- LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS) - Council of Library Deans - CSU Library Spaces
- University of Oregon Library: Getting Started with Research: An Overview of the Process
- Engaging Users Through Accessible And Pedagogical Guides by Bronwen K. Maxson & Mandi García A webinar for Emporia SLIM, April 29, 2020
- Bringing our Values to Online Guide Design by Bronwen Maxson, presented 9/17/2020
- Alamance County Public Libraries: Book Club Kits: Adult Nonfiction Kits
- Pace University Library: 5 Minutes to Better Research YouTube Playlist (More videos to come)
- Canva Presentation Templates
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our 10th mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode number 35 on lesson planning and talk about one aspect of lesson planning that can get in the way, which is time management!
Resources referenced in this episode:
- “Reclaiming My Attention”, blog post by John Jackson, February 16, 2021
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica do a roundup of unique, versatile and effective assessments that we’ve recently read about that can be applied in the information literacy classroom.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Episode 2: Assessment - Are we asking the right questions?
- Episode 7 - Critical Digital Pedagogy
- Episode 25 - Formative Assessment with Mary-Michelle Moore
- Melissa Wong & Laura Saunders, “Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers” (2021)
- SILC Ed Tech Showcase: Google Forms by Danielle Apfelbaum (SUNY Farmingdale) (08/13/2020)
- Making Customizable Interactive Tutorials with Google Forms by Meredith Farkas by Meredith Farkas (11/5/2020)
- WHITEBOARD (But Make It Virtual) Using Google Jamboard to Promote Interactivity by Carrie Baldwin-SoRelle, DOLS Virtual Poster Session 2021
- “Your Research Plan” by Giselle Burns, Kian Ravaei, Xinyi(Alex) Yan Contributors: Janet Goins, Kelly Kistner, Chris Lopez, Tama Hasson, Renee Romero, Doug Worsham Attributions: CIMER (Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research), UCLA Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UCLA Undergraduate Research Center - Sciences, ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox
- Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Volume Two: Lesson Plans by Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy
- Algorithms Lesson Plans Collaborative Document
- ACRL 2021 Conference: Publicly Available Presentation Links
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In our 9th mini episode, we’ll take a look back at episode number 31 where we discussed 21 teaching tips for 2021 and see if we’ve made any strides in implementing any of these tips!
Resources referenced in this episode:
- 21 Tips for ‘21 Google Document (Add your own tips for this year!)
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica talk to librarians April Hines, Katherine Boss and Megan Heuer about their version of the ACRL Framework focused towards the journalism discipline that’s based on research with practicing journalists and students.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- “Reporting in the “Post-Truth” Era: Uncovering The Research Behaviors of Journalism Students, Practitioners, and Faculty” by Katherine E. Boss, Kristina M. De Voe, Stacy R. Gilbert, Carolina Hernandez, Megan Heuer, April Hines, Jeffrey A. Knapp, Rayla E. Tokarz, Chimene E. Tucker and Kristina E. Williams
- IFLA Fake News & Its Impact on Society, Lecture 3: Research & AI Learning Methods (Guest presentation on their paper starts at 31 minute mark)
- Framework for Information Literacy in Journalism for Higher Education
- A new way of looking at trust in media: Do Americans share journalism’s core values? - American Press Institute
- The Next Big Idea Podcast: Episode: HUMOR: How to Turn Levity Into Your Secret Weapon
- "Hitting the service ceiling: the prohibitive cost of professional development in academic librarianship (and why we aren’t presenting at ACRL 2021)"
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat about marketing your library instruction - either as a department or an individual librarian.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers by Laura Saunders and Melissa Wong - https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.12
- METRO NY Critical Pedagogy Symposium
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe to our podcast wherever you listen! We love to hear from you in reviews as well.
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss Peer to Peer Development. They dive into what it is, why it's important and share a range of examples on how to get started.
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss Peer to Peer Development. They dive into what it is, why it's important and share a range of examples on how to get started.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- How to Help Your Employees Learn from Each Other by Kelly Palmer and David Blake - November 08, 2018- Harvard Business Review
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our 8th mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode 2 which focused on assessment. In this follow up episode, they reexamine assessment and take a look at the trending topic of ungrading and how information literacy instruction and the ACRL framework lends itself to faculty interested in getting started with ungrading.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 350 - Ungrading with Susan D. Blum, February 25, 2021
- Tea for Teaching Podcast: Episode 145 - Pedagogies of Care: Ungrading
- Overthrowing Education Podcast: Episode 44: Starr Sackstein: How to Go Gradeless and Assess Better
- Jesse Stommel: How to Ungrade, 11 Mar 2018
- ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
- LIS Pedagogy Chat Archive: Upgrading Slides & Resources
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our 7th mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode number 11 where they discussed instructional programming to chat about the ways instruction librarians have adapted to virtual programming over the past year of remote learning.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- ULS Academic Outreach Committee online roundtable: “Supporting Students Who Can't Come to Campus and/or Participate in the University Experience!”
- Pace Library Instagram: March Madness
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with librarian Alyssa Valenti about leadership during the pandemic.
Resources referenced in this episode:
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss their experience with creating and using lesson plans. They also explore the benefits and pitfalls.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Lizard People in the Library by Barbara Fister; Article # 1 in the Project Information Literacy Provocation Series
- University of West Florida: Megal Oakleaf Lesson Plan Template
- Who Can I Trust? – Questions to Ask When Evaluating Information Sources (featuring SIFT, PIE, and SMELL methods) by Keely Kiczenski (Lesson plan utilizing comprehensive template)
- Algonquin College: Lesson Plan Template (Instructor/Learner Table Template)
- MacPhaidin Library: Library Information Skills Curriculum LibGuide: Class/Activity Templates
- Sharing is Caring: Three Ways to Maximize Collaborative Lesson Planning by Anne Guarnera - Inside Higher Ed
- Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook 2-VOLUME SET by Nicole PagowskyKelly McElroy
- Sarah Smith Tweet - “Pandemic Fine”
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica review some tech tools that can be used by library professionals in the classroom.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Digital Pedagogy Lab Tool Parade
- Technology in Library Instruction
- Tip of the Month Teaching and Learning Toolbox
- LIS Pedagogy Chat - Tech It Out! May 22, 2020
- Hypothes.is
- Kahoot!
- FlipGrid
- JamBoard
- Bubblus
- Anchor
- Padlet
- Wikipedia
- Mentimeter
- Poll Everywhere
- Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
- 8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with librarian Carolyn Caffrey Gardner about ways to incorporate algorithmic education into our lessons.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Lesson Plan: Analyzing search engines: What narrative is told through the algorithm by Carolyn Caffrey Gardner
- Teaching Algorithmic Bias in a Credit-Bearing Course by Carolyn Caffrey Gardner
- ACRL University Library Section PDC: Deficit or equity: Decoding implicit thinking and practice in information literacy
- On the Media Podcast: “The Disagreement Is The Point” November 22, 2019
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Composing Algorithms: Writing (with) Rhetorical Machines Edited by Aaron Beveridge, Sergio C Figueiredo, Steven Holmes Volume 57, September 2020
- Carolyn’s Twitter: @ccaffgardner
- LibParlor Classifieds
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica share 21 instruction tips to start out 2021! Episode 31 covers the first 14 tips and episode 32 covers tips 15 - 21. We received some great tips from listeners which they share in addition to some that they want to share.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Librarian’s Guide to Teacihng: Engaging Students in the Classroom through Critical Librarianship with guest Romel Espinel: Episode 4
- ILA ACRL Keeping Up in Iowa With Online Instruction (“Raise Your Hand If...Game”)
- Librarian’s Guide to Teaching: Gamification in Information Literacy Instruction: Tips, Tricks and how to get started! with Serene Rock and Kristine Cwengros: Episode 17
- Overthrowing Education: Episode 37: Overhauling Assessments with Natalie Vardabasso
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Show Notes (Episode 31):
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica share 21 instruction tips to start out 2021! Episode 31 covers the first 14 tips and episode 32 covers tips 15 - 21. We received some great tips from listeners which they share in addition to some that they want to share.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Distracted Minds: The Role of Tempo in Good Teaching. The Chronicle of Higher Education, by James Lang, November 16, 2020
- Padlet
- Librarian’s Guide to Teaching: Humor in Information Literacy Instruction with Lee Adams, Stephanie Alexander, and Lana Woods: Episode 21
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our 6th mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode 20 and follow up on opportunities to collaborate with faculty.
Resources referenced in this episode:
https://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/
Weng, C., & Murray, D. (2020). Faculty perceptions of librarians and library services: Exploring the impact of librarian faculty status and beyond. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46, 102200: https://dr.tcnj.edu/bitstream/handle/2900/2994/weng-2019-faculty-perceptions-of-librarians-and-library-services.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our fifth mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode number 7 from last December where they discussed digital pedagogy and critical online pedagogy by looking at a recent blog post about online instruction engagement.
Related or Referenced Resources for this Episode:
- What Does Engagement Mean? By Veronica Arellano Douglas, on ACRLog.org
- Imagining a Resilient Pedagogy By Bill Hart-Davidson on Medium.com
- Digital Pedagogy Lab Tool Parade by Jesse Stommel, Digital Pedagogy Lab
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with Leigh Milligan and Lauren who are the co-hosts of the LISProchats on Twitter. They share their backstory, how the come up with topics, their most popular chats and so much more.
Resources referenced in this episode:
http://lisprochat.blogspot.com/
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Topics & Takeaways (Part 2)
- With the COVID story, we're getting to see how science works under pressure and without information agency or discipline expertise, it can be hard to understand what's happening and see the downsides to peer review.
- In a way, we can identify the questions to ask about where media literacy should go next but not really the exact solutions.
- We need to recognize the social-ness of news and of research and it must be taken into consideration in the transformation of media literacy.
- If not everything is biased, how do we unpack that with students?
- Students relate to images and we can use examples from the report to discuss with them how the images impact the way they interpret news.
- While some faculty are single-source news viewers ("I only look at NPR"), students just don't engage in the media landscape that way.
- Reach out to Alison at alison@projectinfolit.org with how you are using the report in the classroom & how students are responding!
Resources referenced in this episode:
- PIL's list of Covid-19 misinformation resources
- Project Info Lit’s Publications
- Librarian’s Guide to Teaching: Episode 9 with Barbara Fister on the Algo Report
- SIFT (The Four Moves) - Mike Caulfield
- Sam Wineburg, Stanford Researcher on Twitter
- Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin West
- You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You? By Danah Boyd
- Casting a critical eye on "fake news" literacy and post truth pedagogy - CLAPS 2020 (Source of the quote, “You can’t SIFT yourself out of QANON”)
- How the COVID-19 crisis has prompted a revolution in scientific publishing - Fast Company - 8/5/2020
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with researcher, Alison Head, to discuss the new Project Information Literacy Report called “Covid-19: The first 100 days of U.S. news coverage”.
Topics & Takeaways:
Topics & Takeaways (Part 1)
- How can the PIL COVID report help librarians and educators discuss news, media and visual literacy with students?
- How can students learn to reclaim their information agency? How can students exert control over the on-slught of news coming at them?
- Reach out to Alison at alison@projectinfolit.org with how you are using the report in the classroom & how students are responding!
- We need to pull up 30,000 feet to look at the landscape of news with students and how sources develop rather than just evaluating individual sources.
- While the CRAAP test is a great framework for evaluation, Facebook and social media have changed the arc of information and the strategies that we use for sources. Social media amplifies our attention around certain media and visuals.
- Since COVID is a news topic that has touched everyone around the world in all disciplines, it can be a topic that can engage students across disciplines/topics.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- PIL's list of Covid-19 misinformation resources
- Project Info Lit’s Publications
- Librarian’s Guide to Teaching: Episode 9 with Barbara Fister on the Algo Report
- SIFT (The Four Moves) - Mike Caulfield
- Sam Wineburg, Stanford Researcher on Twitter
- Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin West
- You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You? By Danah Boyd
- Casting a critical eye on "fake news" literacy and post truth pedagogy - CLAPS 2020 (Source of the quote, “You can’t SIFT yourself out of QANON”)
- How the COVID-19 crisis has prompted a revolution in scientific publishing - Fast Company - 8/5/2020
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
.Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with Katie Quirin Manwiller about Academic Ableism and Criplib.
Resources referenced in this episode:
http://teaforteaching.com/149-academic-ableism/
Katie’s ACRL 2019 ACRLog blog post
UDL Framework
CripLib website for future chats
Library Juice Academy Course on UDL
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat about their experiences with mentoring - from both sides as mentors and mentees - as well as share some resources.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium
- How to Ask Someone to be Your Mentor – Dos and Donts
- Getting into the Club: Existence and Availability of Mentoring for Tenured Librarians in Academic Libraries by Juliann Couture, Jennie Gerke, and Jennifer Knievel in C&RL News
- LibVoices Podcast: Episode 7 Dr. Raymond Pun on Engagement and Community Building
- ALA Mentoring Resources
- @BlackLibrarian Instagram
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our fourth mini episode, Amanda and Jessica take a look back at episode 6 which was making time for professional development and discuss an interesting article about virtual conferences that are our new reality.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- [Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared? By Jasmine Wallace
- Evernote
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with Mary-Michelle Moore, a Teaching & Learning Librarian at UC Santa Barbara about formative assessment and a plan that she designed for student assessment in class.
Topics & Takeaways:
- When librarians enter the classroom for a one-shot session, even with faculty feedback prior to class, it can be difficult to know the extent of prior knowledge students have.
- By asking students for feedback before and during a session about information literacy, we bring student experiences into the learning and also get real time information on how to move the learning forward.
- Implementing formative assessment in the classroom can allow librarians to collect information during a session to see what students need for learning and it can vary from basic questioning to bouncing between different topics/activities.
-
Forms of formative assessment discussed:
- Think, Pair, Share
- Padlet
- Wooclap Audience Response
- When asking students for information, balance how much information is given to them (overload) while also providing enough detail to explain the “why” behind the activity/assessment and the “what” that is expected.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- “Using Formative Assessment Techniques to Customize a Standard Lesson Plan to an Individual Section” - Mary-Michelle Moore’s presentation at the California Information Literacy Conference
- Wooclap Audience Response
- Padlet
- Facilitating student learning and engagement with formative assessment by Jennifer Jarson - ACRLog.org
- Types of summative assessment and formative assessment - by ResourcEd Blog
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica take a closer look at a topic covered in episode 5 - classroom management. They discuss technology in the classroom and share some ideas/tips of how to recover when tech fails in the class.
Biggest takeaway - Preparation is everything!
Resources referenced in this episode:
- What to Do When the Technology Fails in Class By Colette Bennett on ThoughtCo, Updated February 12, 2020
- Classroom Technology Fails: How to Prepare for Disasters by Shannon Treichel on Medium, March 29, 2019
- Padlet
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica are discussing a recent article in College & Research Library News regarding the top trends this year in academic libraries. And how has the pandemic impacted these trends?
Resources referenced in this episode:
- 2020 top trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education by Members of the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee, published in C&RL News, June 2020
- A Comprehensive Primer to Library Learning Analytics Practices, Initiatives, and Privacy Issues by Kyle M.L. Jones, Kristin A. Briney, Abigail Goben, Dorothea Salo, Andrew Asher, and Michael R. Perry, published in C&RL News
- Building a Critical Culture: How Critical Librarianship Falls Short in the Workplace by Jennifer A. Ferretti, published in Communications in Information Literacy
- Data Doubles Project
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In our second mini episode, Amanda and Jessica are reflecting back on the third episode of LGT which discussed the academic library as perceived by a non-librarian in the article, “College Students Just Want Normal Libraries” in The Atlantic published in 2019. This episode discusses a recent Inside Higher Ed article called “Changed, Changed Utterly”.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- College Students Just Want Normal Libraries by Alia Wong in The Atlantic
- Episode 3: Can libraries be normal?
- Changed, Changed Utterly by Christopher Cox in Inside Higher Ed
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica are chatting about all things LibGuides. How have we used them? What would we love them to do? And much more!
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Hidden Patterns of LibGuides Usage: Another Facet of Usability by Gabriela Castro-Gessner, Wendy Wilcox, and Adam Chandler
- Guidelines for Accessible LibGuides by University of Waterloo
- Pace University Free & Fun Online Resources: Stress Relief for Finals
- Pace University Book Madness
- Berkeley College LibNews Newsletter
- No Pedagogical Advantage Found Between LibGuides and Other Web Page Information Literacy Tutorials by Kimberly Miller in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. 2015;10(1) DOI 10.18438/B8WC8N
- Tweet: @Lindsonmars, 1/28/2019 - Breaking news: It’s confirmed. The origin of the name “LibGuides” came from “Liberty” not “Library.” And that is as previously reported, fully bananas. Also you know how to pronounce it now! This is Lindsay Cronk reporting from #ALAMW19. Back to studio.
- Tweet: @Kaetrena, 6/3/2020 - Please add your #Antiracism #libguides to this list:
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this first mini episode, Amanda and Jessica are going to reflect back on the first LGT episode about imposter syndrome by discussing a recent article about the topic.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- It’s Not Imposter Syndrome: Resisting Self-doubt As Normal For Library Workers by Nicole Andrews, In The Library With the Lead Pipe
- Episode #1: Imposters in the Classroom?
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica are chatting podcasts with the co-creators of the LibVoices podcast, Amanda Leftwich, Jamia Williams and Jamillah Gabriel!
NOTE: It’s not your speakers! We had some technical difficulties recording this episode and we are sorry some of the sound is a bit choppy.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- LibVoices Podcast on Twitter
-
LibVoices Podcast on Anchor
- Fix My Library
-
Secure the Seat
- Pass the Mic
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Black Girls Read
- School Librarians United
- Yogi Bryan
- Next Big Idea
- News Literacy Project Webinars
Find our guests:
- Amanda Leftwich - Twitter: @thelibmaven and @libvoic
- Jamia Williams - Twitter: @librarianjamia & Web: https://diversityfellow.blog
- Jamillah Gabrial - Twitter @jamillahgabriel
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica chat with librarians Lee Adams, Stephanie Alexander, and Lana Woods about their work using satirical videos in IL instruction and using humor in the classroom.
Topics & Takeaways:
- Starting with a tool like satirical videos allows the librarian to lean on comedians who are paid to be funny and not have to write their own materials.
- There is a tension of needing to stay “professional” and be funny which can especially be a risk depending on the librarian’s race/gender/class etc. Women are not seen as funny and research has been shown it can be a risk for BIPOC (see show references).
- Humor is not universal so students, context and relation to the material must be considered.
- Ways to start with humor in the classroom:
- Begin the class with humor to spark student interest, raise students’ expectations, lower anxiety, and create a more relaxed, positive learning environment.
- Use humor to encourage deep thinking. Have students work on a difficult concept or equation though a silly or outlandish example.
- Don’t try too hard.
- Don’t use outdated humor/references.
- Why you should consider using Humor in your next class:
- Most literature shows that it puts students at ease and lowers anxiety.
- Engages the students.
- Helps the instructor build rapport with students (more friendlier, relatable etc).
- Helps with retaining content.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Evoking truthiness: Using satirical news comedies to teach information literacy by Annis Lee Adams, Stephanie Alexander, and Lana Mariko Wood
- Satirical News LibGuide by Annis Lee Adams, Stephanie Alexander, and Lana Mariko Wood
- No News Is Good News? Satirical News Videos in the Information Literacy Classroom by Stephanie Alexander and Lana Mariko Wood; portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Plight of the Funny Female by Olga Khazan, The Atlantic
- Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews by Ben Schmidt
- Making Jokes During a Presentation Helps Men But Hurts Women by Jonathan Evans, Jerel Slaughter, Aleksander Ellis and Jessi Rivin; Harvard Business Review
- Women of Color in Academia Often Work Harder for Less Respect by Nadia Owusu; Catapult
- How Student Evaluations Are Skewed against Women and Minority Professors by Eva Lilienfeld; The Century Foundation
- Using humor in the college classroom: The pros and the cons by Drew C. Appleby, PhD
- Humor as a Teaching Tool in the Classroom by Notre Dame Kaneb Learning Center
- Humor in library instruction: a narrative review with implications for the health sciences by Elena Azadbakht
- Did You Hear the One about the Boolean Operators? Incorporating Comedy into Library Instruction by Kristin Trefts and Sarah Blakeslee in Reference Services Review
- “What Stand-Up Comedians Teach Us about Library Instruction: Four Lessons for the Classroom by Eamon C. Tewell in College & Research Libraries News
- This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica are talking about our experiences with faculty collaboration in the classroom.
Topics & Takeaways:
- Faculty collaborations with librarians can range from individual outreach that leads to a one-shot session to a full collaboration on courses or assignment design.
- We’ve experienced challenging situations ranging from interruptions in class, negative responses to our work to completely taking over class.
- We can work towards changing the library/faculty collaboration culture by advocating for being seen as equals, changing our language from supporting to collaborating, moving away from the service model and educating faculty on what we really do in libraries.
Tips on successful faculty collaboration:
- Take initiative and don’t wait for faculty to reach out to you.
- Keep your ‘ears” to the ground and look for ways for to seize opportunities
to get involved.
- Be open minded to different partnerships and collaborations.
- We need to have a purpose in every project we take on.
- Breaking down silos is super hard but we are the only ones who are going to do it. We need to just keep advocating, keep pushing back.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Empowerment, Experimentation, Engagement: Embracing Partnership Models in Libraries by Brian Mathews, Stefanie Metko and Patrick Tomlin in EDUCAUSE
- Five tips for better faculty-librarian communication and collaboration by Bruce Rosenstein on EmeraldPublishing.com
- Kevin Seeber Blog
- Happier with Gretchen Rubin
- Streaks App
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica speak with librarian and library science professor, Melissa Wong, about instructional design, topics from her book, “Instructional Design for LIS Professionals” and remote teaching during COVID.
Topics & Takeaways:
(Listen to the episode one more time)
Resources referenced in this episode:
- LIS Conversations After Class: Melissa’s website and blog
- Information Literacy at a (Social) Distance: Strategies for Moving Online - Melissa Wong’s ACRL Webinar
- CAST - Universal Design for Learning
- It's open access, but is it accessible? Creating and selecting items for digital accessibility by Rebecca Graham
- Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
- Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Womenby Safiya Noble
- Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science
- Springshare Accessibility Blog Posts
- LibVoices: Nicole Cooke Episode
- Timeline JS Tool
- Padlet Tool
- 5 Things You Should Read About Universal Design for Learning (ACRL)
- Studying Research Blog by Allison Hosier
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica talk about reflective teaching, some ideas about journaling and improving our professional practices through reflection.
Topics & Takeaways:
- We improve the more we teach but can we make more opportunities to learn from our teaching through reflection? How do we actively learn about our teaching or professional self to grow from it?
- Instruction journals allow librarians to get thoughts out about what went well, what did I think I could improve or were there any interesting student interactions in order to reflect and look for patterns.
- Brainstorm journals that are reviewed frequently can be another form of journal.
- Librarian to librarian observation and feedback can be a system-level way to learn about your instruction and reflect on it with help from others.
- Feedback from faculty and students can be helpful, with a few caveats.
- Just writing down things you learned each day for about 15 minutes can improve our learning.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Reflective Teaching for Librarians by Char Booth; American Libraries
- Instruction Journal Template
- Reflecting Journaling: A Daily Practice by Amanda Leftwich; LibParlor
- Explanation Effect: Why You Should Always Teach What You Learn by Michael Simmons; Medium.com
- Reflective Teaching by Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
- Word cloud evaluation tweet by Jess Calarco
- Feedback 360 LibGuide
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica talk to librarians, Serene Rock and Kristine Cwengros, about gamification in information literacy instruction and their poster that was presented at the ACRL DLS Virtual Poster Session last month.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Epidemics and Hunger Games: Collaborating to Gamify Information Literacy…and Maybe Save the World - Poster & Resource LibGUide by Serene Rock and Kristine Cwengros
- Games and Gamification in Academic Libraries - Book by Stephanie Crowe & Eva Sclippa
- Andrew Walsh Twitter: @playbrarian
- Work Life Balance by Adam Grant
Topics & Takeaways:
- Make gaming relevant to the course objectives and students have a variety of benefits including increasing student motivation and content retention.
- Effective games provide students scaffolding throughout the process to help move through the game and practice skills.
- Don’t be afraid to fail and adapt!
- Start small - no need to create a multi-level game on day 1! Start with a pre-created Jeopardy game or a Kahoot or a 10 minute group game in a larger class session.
- When asking for faculty collaboration, providing them with a fleshed out idea may increase the potential for a positive response.
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica wrap up their 3-part series about the ACRL Framework by looking forward to the future. They discuss when and how the ACRL Framework might be refreshed and some ways it could be changed.
Topics & Takeaways:
-
Potential Refreshes & Updates Discussed:
- A large scale study to determine adoption rates and barriers to adoption
- Updating the language of the descriptions
- Reorganizing the dispositions
- Renaming the Framework
- Adding real world examples
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Community College Librarians and the ACRL Framework: Findings from a National Study published in College & Research Libraries by Susan Wengler and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg (2020)
- “Information Literacy’s Third Wave” by Barbara Fister, published on InsideHigherEd.com (2019)
- “Side-by-Side Mode for Screen-Sharing” - Zoom.com
- ACRL Framework and Standards Alignment Document by Amanda Hovious
- AACU Values Rubric
Special thanks to our listeners whose responses we shared:
- @blinablevitan
- Sarah Burns-Feyl
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica continue the 3-part ACRL Framework series. They discuss interesting examples of librarians using the Framework, studies that are based around it as well as their favorite Frames.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- The Sift Newsletter from News Literacy Project
- Bias Busters: bringing Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to the Classroom for Hispanic Heritage Month (Poster by Laurie McFadden, Jessica Kiebler & Bonnie Lafazan)
- Student Constructions of Authority in the Framework Era: A Bibliometric Pilot Study Using a Faceted Taxonomy by James W. Rosenzweig, Mary Thill, and Frank Lambert published in College & Research Libraries, 2019
- New Discoveries in Reference: The 25th Annual Reference Research Forum - ALA Annual 2019 Presentation by Julie Hunter, Jessica Kiebler, Dina Meky and Samantha Kannegiser
- Chat reference: evaluating customer service and IL instruction published in Reference Services Review by Julie Hunter, Jessica Kiebler, Dina Meky and Samantha Kannegiser (2019)
- Beyond CRAAP: An Updated Approach to Source Evaluation LibGuide
- Reorienting an Information Literacy Program Toward Social Justice: Mapping the Core Values of Librarianship to the ACRL Framework published in Communications in Information Literacy by Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins (2017)
- Community College Librarians and the ACRL Framework: Findings from a National Study published in College & Research Libraries by Susan Wengler and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg (2020)
- ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica kick off Part One of a three part series on the ACRL Framework! They discuss what makes the Framework challenging and their experiences with teaching and assessing the Frames.
Topics & Takeaways:
-
The ACRL Framework is challenging because:
- Interconnected concepts that incorporate multiple instructional concepts like metacognition, constructivism, affective learning and backward design
- Elevated language that at times can seem like jargon
- It contains A LOT of content which makes organizing, teaching and assessing progression of learning difficult
- Teaching the Framework at the one-shot level can feel limiting, frustrating and difficult to assess due to the short time-frame, expectations of faculty and not knowing our students.
- However, there are strategies to developing effective one-shot Framework instruction that meets student needs.
- One way to integrate the Framework at a program level starts with mapping the knowledge practices and dispositions to beginner, intermediate and advanced levels as well as reviewing syllabi to match assignments to appropriate Frame skills.
- Various ideas about how to use the Framework in the classroom are discussed.
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Carla Stoffle, Nicole Pagowsky, and Yvonne Mery (2020) Teaching Future Librarian Educators Using the ACRL Framework: A New Graduate Level iSchool Teaching Certificate
- 23 Framework Things (Activities to learn the Framework)
- ACRL Framework
- ACRL Framework Toolkit LibGuide
- Westchester University Libraries IL Assessment LibGuide
- Florida Atlantic University IL LibGuide
- Troy Swanson (2017) Sharing the ACRL Framework with faculty: Opening campus conversations
- Engaging with the ACRL Framework Workshop
- Unlocking Us Podcast: Brené on Comparative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth, and Settling the Ball
- ACRL Webinar: Quickly Implementing Accessibility Tools
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss storytelling and instruction. How can you use your experience and previous student support to provide instruction?
Topics & Takeaways:
- Storytelling can be valuable in information literacy instruction because it is informational, memorable and a great way to reach novice learners.
- What are our experiences with storytelling in the classroom?
- What are some ways to use infographics as storytelling?
- What are some barriers to storytelling in the classroom?
- What are some “Pie in the sky” storytelling techniques you might want to try in the future?
- Do you think storytelling is an effective instruction technique for one shots?
- Small ways you can incorporate storytelling into your instruction
Resources referenced in this episode:
- The Teaching Professor: Storytelling: A Valuable Teaching Tool
- Telling Stories: The Art and Science of Storytelling as an Instructional Strategy by Karen Brakke & Jeremy Ashton Houska
- Harvard Business Review: What Makes Storytelling So Effective For Learning?
- Telling the Story: Using Narratives to Explain WHY Information Literacy Education is Important and Get Students Invested in What We Do by Heather Barrow-Stafford
- Teaching Information Literacy Through Short Stories by David James Brier & Vickery Kaye Lebbin
- Keeping Up With Digital Storytelling
- Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling by Jason Lankow, Josh Ritchie & Ross Crooks
- Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers by Jessamyn Neuhaus
- Teaching In Higher Ed Podcast: Episode 286 with Jessamyn Neuhaus
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-gov
NOTE: In the episode, Jessica refers to introverted teaching and attributes certain quotes to educator Flower Darby but that should have been attributed to Jessamyn Neuhaus, whose book is linked above.
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss their thoughts on the recently released EDUCAUSE 2020 Horizon Report and the implications for librarians in higher education.
Resources discussed in this episode:
- 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report
- Life Kit Podcast
- Free Professional Development Document for Academic Library Workers (Shoutout to librarian, Jessica Dai, for creating and sharing this editable document!)
- TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast
- Opening the Black Box of Adaptivity
- Tips for Working at Home - Tweet from @RebeccaRomney
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss their successes and failures creating instructional programming that teaches information literacy skills. They discuss tips and challenges to designing and implementing these events.
Topics & Takeaways:
- Instructional programming refers to events and activities in libraries that teach information literacy skills in some form rather than just focusing on bringing students into the library or promoting services.
- Successes discussed include a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, LibraryLand game, tabling events and an online event LibGuide.
- Challenges in preparing and presenting instructional programming include:
- Time to plan
- Collaboration with other departments
- Lack of student attendance
- Marketing to students
- Tips for preparing and presenting instructional programming include:
- Know what topics and engagement methods are important to your students
- Be sure to assess your programming
- Tie your programming to the mission or goals of your department/ institution
- Collect meaningful data in order to demonstrate value
- Recognize when a program is no longer working
- Make sure you do tie your program back to IL skills being taught
Resources referenced in the episode:
- Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experiment
- Berkeley College Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon LibGuide
- Celebrate Berkeley College Libraries LibGuide
- Library Marketing and Outreach Facebook Group
- Shannon Farrell & Kristen Mastel - Considering Outreach Assessment: Strategies, Sample Scenarios, and a Call to Action (2016)
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes for Website:
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica talk to Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles, authors of the book “How to Thrive as a Library Professional”. They discuss what it means to thrive, the various topics covered in the book and hone in on specific strategies for networking and habit creation.
Topics & Takeaways:
- The chapter topics are Career Vision, Habits, Relationships Building, Organizational Culture, Telling our Stories for Self-Promotion, Mindfulness/Self-Compassion, Creating a Reflective Practice.
- Success can be defined differently by each person and changes as a person moves through their career.
- Reflection is an important part of thriving because it requires us to think out all of the aspects of our career, including habits, relationships and our daily work.
- Habits
- Mindfulness
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Resources referenced in the episode:
- How to Thrive as a Library Professional: Achieving Success and Satisfaction by Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles
- David Allen - Getting Things Done method
- Bullet Journaling
Show Notes:
On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica talk with Barbara Fister, Scholar-in-Residence at Project Information Literacy and co-researcher on PIL's latest study, "Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change." They discuss the report’s findings, potential barriers to implementing algorithm education and ways that librarians can be a part of the change in higher education.
Guest Bio:
Barbara Fister is a Scholar-in-Residence at Project Information Literacy and co-researcher on PIL's latest study, "Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change." For three decades Barbara coordinated the library instruction program at Gustavus Adolphus College=, a liberal arts college in Minnesota. In addition to collaborative teaching with faculty across the curriculum she has developed courses on research methods, book culture, first term seminars, and (most recently) launched a new course on Clickbait, Bias, and Propaganda in Information Networks.
Resources related to this episode’s theme and mentioned in the show include:
- Algorithm Report Abstract & Links
- Full Report: Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change
- Algo Report Additional Readings
Tweet of the week
https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/1222177875719327744
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
Show Notes:
On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica talk with Bonnie Lafazan, Library Director of the Berkeley College Woodbridge Campus and current member of the ACRL Professional Development Committee and the ACRL Conference 2020 Committee. They chat about the importance of the various levels of professional development, strategies to building a culture of development and how we make time for writing and reading.
Topics & Takeaways:
- Professional development is an important part of keeping up to date on what’s going on in librarianship as well as stretching ourselves as life-long learners.
- We balance our professional development time between work and personal time based on what works for our lives. Amanda shares some strategies for fitting it in on a tight schedule.
- For those interested in encouraging professional development at their institution, a variety of strategies are discussed including bringing information back from your local library organizations, giving a variety of opportunities to team members and getting input from staff members on what they want to develop.
Resources related to this episode’s theme and mentioned in the show include:
- ACRL Library Marketing Outreach & Interest Group (including a link to the active Facebook group)
- ACRL Roles & Strengths of Teaching Librarians
- American Libraries Magazine
- College & Research Libraries News
- Circulating Ideas - Podcasts of Interest (Free PD from podcasts!)
-
Scholarships:
- ACRL 2021 Scholarships
- ALA Education Scholarship Lists
- Routledge Being a Librarian: Professional Development FreeBook
- ALA Staff Development Links & Bibliography
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
NOTE: It's not your speakers! We had some technical difficulties recording this episode and we are sorry for the choppy audio!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss online instruction, including the concepts of critical digital pedagogy and open pedagogy which were suggested by a listener on Twitter! They discuss incorporating these concepts into the online environment whether in a credit-bearing course, embedded instruction or one-shots.
Topics and Takeaways:
• Critical digital pedagogy asks many of the same questions about teaching as critical pedagogy but extends the discussion into the online environment and includes questions around the use of technology itself. However, online instruction has only been practiced for 20-30 years whereas humans have been teaching and studying pedagogy for thousands of years. How do we bring what we’ve learned into the online realm in a more holistic way rather than being limited by the technology? We need to re-envision online pedagogy!
• Open pedagogy is focused on themes of collaborative learning and inter-connected with open educational resources, open access and other forms of open education.
• How do we adapt our one-shot instruction to “work” in this environment? What are the criteria for successful online one-shots?
• Discussion boards are so limiting in their ability for actual discussion, engagement and assessment. And if we don’t like doing them as students or grading them as teachers, how can we expect our students to feel empowered to do them? We need a new method of creating discussion in our online classrooms.
Links to resources discussed in this episode: There are SO many great resources on these topics - this is by no means a complete list!
o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook by Nicole Pagowsky& Kelly McElroy (2016)
o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice by Jess Haigh & Elizabeth Brookbank (2020 - The editors just finished accepting proposals in July 2019)
o Eamon C. Tewell (2018) The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians’ Involvement in Critical Library Instruction, College & Research Libraries
o Monthly Twitter Chat: #CritLib
o Kenny Garcia (2019) Keeping Up With Critical Librarianship, ACRL (Great reference list!)
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Instructional Design With Sean Michael Morris
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Small Teaching Online With Flower Darby
o Sean Michael Morris: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Learning Management
o Open Pedagogy Notebook
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Open Pedagogy With Rajiv Jhangiani
• Kevin Seeber blog post on faculty collaboration
• Meredith Farkas blog series: Thoughts at Mid-Career Part 1 – Letting Go, Questioning, and Pathfinding
Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @melodylynn457
Here's where you can find us: https://librariansguidetoteaching.weebly.com/
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss both the practical and theoretical ideas behind the future of information literacy. Will librarians always teach information literacy? Will it ever be fully adopted into higher ed curriculum and only taught by faculty?
Topics Discussed & Takeaways:
So many potential answers to these questions are institution specific depending on culture, relationships and contexts. Faculty have a lot of discipline-specific content to cover which is where their expertise lies and since librarians are the research/information experts, this should remain our responsibility. Due to institutional contexts, one-shots can’t always be replaced with a full credit course and if only taught early in their college careers, students would not receive discipline specific instruction. Librarians remain up to date on the technology of research which takes that off of the faculty. And many faculty don’t have to do research on their own so they may not want to learn all of that to teach students. Many posit that we are in a “third wave” of information literacy. Since information is our discipline area, librarians remain up to date with these changes, its impact on society and how to best approach these changes pedagogically (i.e. - ACRL Framework changes).
Links to resources discussed in this episode (or related to the topic):
- “Information Literacy’s Third Wave” by Barbara Fister published on Inside Higher Ed (February 14, 2019)
- “Defining and teaching information literacy” by Elizabeth Dolinger in College & Research Libraries News, Vol 80, No. 1, 2019
- “Philosophical Shift: Teach the Faculty to Teach Information Literacy”, White Paper written by Risë L. Smith and Karl E. Mundt Library
- “Competencies in the Major - University of Albany”
- Check, Please! Digital Information Evaluation Course, by Mike Caulfield
Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @LibraryBon
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss some of the most common classroom management challenges faced by instruction librarians and chat about strategies to overcome them.
Topics Discussed & Takeaways:
Instruction librarians may not have degrees in education but that doesn’t mean they can’t succeed in classroom management.
Five areas of classroom management challenges:
Getting and keeping students engaged
Getting students to participate
Engaging distracted students & keeping everyone on task
Dealing with difficult students
Handling technical difficulties and interruptions
Links to resources discussed in this episode (or related to the topic):
- “When You Get Nothing But Crickets” from The Cult of Pedagogy (August 18, 2019)
- “Forty ways to survive IL instruction overload; or, how to avoid teacher burnout” by Giovanna Badia in College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2017
- “The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide”, Second Edition Heidi E. Buchanan and Beth A. McDonough
- “Classroom Management: Dealing with Difficult Students” from Brookhaven College
Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @Overthrowinged @WoodsieGirl
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica interview Romel Espinel and discuss his approaches to critical librarianship in the classroom. We discuss teaching styles, student centered practices and practical examples of how to implement these strategies in the classroom.
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
We are also now available on itunes! Be sure to find us there and subscribe to our podcast!
Show Notes:
On this episode of The Librarian's Guide to Teaching, Amanda and Jessica respond to a recent article published about academic libraries and what students really want. They also share a tweet of the week.
- The Atlantic Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/college-students-dont-want-fancy-libraries/599455/
- Duke Study referenced in Atlantic Article: https://library.duke.edu/about/depts/assessment-user-experience/student-survey
- Ebony Magnus, Jackie Belanger and Maggie Faber; Towards a Critical Assessment Practice: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/towards-critical-assessment-practice/
*Note: The article is discussed with a bit of snark at times but we focus on positive takeaways around library assessment, institutional culture and meeting the needs of students.
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us --
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
In this episode, Jessica and Amanda interview ACRL-NJ Chapter President, Cara Berg and they talk about their experiences with assessment, the challenges they encounter and how they are using the data they collect. They also share this week's work triumphs and work fails.
ACRL project outcomes. Retrieved from https://acrl.projectoutcome.org/
Bull, A., Head, A., & MacMillian, M. (2019). Asking the right questions: Bridging gaps between information literacy assessment approaches. Against the Grain, 31(4) Retrieved from https://against-the-grain.com/2019/10/v314-asking-the-right-questions-bridging-gaps-between-information-literacy-assessment-approaches/
This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
Here's where you can find us:
Podcast: @Librarian_Guide
Jessica: @LibraryGeek611
Amanda: @HistoryBuff820
Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com
Be sure to rate and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast!
In the first episode of The Librarians Guide to Teaching, Hosts, Jessica Kiebler and Amanda Piekart introduce themselves, explain why they started this podcast and discussed Impostor Syndrome in the classroom. Below are links to resources discussed in this first episode.
- The Imposter Cure by Jessamy Hibberd: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48138995-the-imposter-cure?ac=1&from_search=true
- “Jumping into the Deep: Imposter Syndrome, Defining Success, and the New Librarian”: https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/3979/3994
- Clance, P.R., and Imes, S.A. (1978). The impostor phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and Therapeutic interventions. Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice, 15, 241-247. https://www.paulineroseclance.com/impostor_phenomenon.html
- ACRL eLearning Course: http://www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning/impostersyndrome
- "Driven" Podcast - The 1st 3 episodes are a failure series: https://thedrivenpodcast.com/
This episodes theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
- Amanda Twitter handle: @historybuff820
- Jessica Twitter handle: @librarygeek611
- Podcast website: https://librariansguidetoteaching.weebly.com/