Feeling my way as a teacher
This month, I’ve been participating in the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), an intensive three-day program that involves presenting mini-lessons, peer feedback, and discussions on learner-centred...
View ArticleA Wrinkle in Time
Since 2008, ACRLog’s “First Year Academic Librarian (FYAL) Experience” series has annually featured 1-2 academic librarians in their first year on the job in an academic library. This new series,...
View ArticleReflecting on Seven Years of Librarianship
Since 2008, ACRLog’s “First Year Academic Librarian (FYAL) Experience” series has annually featured 1-2 academic librarians in their first year on the job in an academic library. This new series,...
View ArticleRe-envisioning an Instruction Program with Critical Information Literacy in Mind
My name is Kevin Adams and I am one of the new First Year Academic Librarian (FYAL) bloggers! My pronouns are he/him/his. I am interested in critical information literacy, pedagogy, all things punk,...
View ArticleYour Personal Librarian
My daughter has a book called, Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton, which is one of my favorites. In the book, a penguin follows a hippopotamus asking for its friendship. As with other children’s...
View ArticleCameras Off: Transitioning from Virtual to In-Person Instruction
This guest post comes from Grace Spiewak, the Instructional Services Librarian at Aurora University. Virtual instruction is my normal – not my new normal, but the only normal I’ve known since becoming...
View ArticleFrom clicks toward concepts in the information literacy classroom
I was mindlessly scrolling through Twitter the other day when a tweet caught my eye. I wish I could find it again to do it justice, but it was essentially a critique of the author’s missteps in the...
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Reflecting on Library Instruction
Palms are sweaty, knees weak but I’m not talking about spaghetti (sorry, Eminem); I’m talking about teaching a credit-bearing library course! This last Fall semester, I not only started my first...
View ArticlePrepared? Reflecting on grad school after 3.5 months on the job
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how well my MS/LIS degree and its related experiences prepared me for my job now as a Research and Instructional Services Librarian. It’s important to note that I...
View ArticleLearning to Teach Credit-Bearing Courses
One element that excited me about my current job was the opportunity to teach credit-bearing courses in our Library Informatics bachelor’s degree program. In my role as department head, I not only get...
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