Category: infolit
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March madness
You know that thing where you say yes to a bunch of things, and then all those things happen at the same time? That’s the month of March for me. Tomorrow I’m leading a lunch-and-learn workshop for the CU Denver Center for Faculty Development about literacy and later in the…
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100 information literacy articles in 100 days.
I don’t know when the idea popped into my head. It probably seeped into my subconscious between my second and third gin and tonic with Kevin Seeber when he name-dropped yet another author I had not yet read, or mentioned some journal I wasn’t familiar with. (Yes, we do like…
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Resisting analytics in a correlation-crazy world.
Last Friday, I presented a six-minute lightning talk at the Library Assessments Workshop hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Much to my supervisor’s chagrin, I was frantically putting together my slides and practicing my talk at the end of the day on Thursday. Some of the disjointed brainstorming…
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Library Assessment Conference 2016, the day after: Next steps
I started out my last day of the Library Assessment Conference sharing biscuits, poached eggs, and strong coffee with Maoria Kirker, Instructional Services and Assessment Librarian at George Mason University, and fellow alum of the 2013 ACRL Immersion Teacher Track program in Seattle, Washington, where we met. I admire Maoria…
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The power, the pressure of the post-test.
I’ve been an Assessment Librarian for about three months now. In a few days, I’ll travel to Arlington, Virginia for the annual Library Assessment Conference, which I’ve never attended before. Sessions with titles like “The Illusory Holy Grail: Comprehensive Mixed-Methodology Assessment is No Better Than Using a Single Method; A…
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