A Born-Digital Librarian’s Reflection on Digital Educational Tools
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Senka Stankovic, Head of User Services at the Jean-Léon Allie Library, Saint-Paul University. As an early-career librarian halfway through a year-long...
View ArticleDeveloping a Teaching Style… In Style!
A commonality among this year’s first-year academic librarian bloggers was the daunting task of standing in front of a class for the first time. We were curious to discuss the similarities and...
View ArticleDeveloping an Evidence Synthesis Training Program
Last May, when I was preparing for my in-person interview for my current position, I was lucky to have the opportunity to talk with librarians at my graduate institution about questions I might be...
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A (Long Overdue) LOEX 2026 Recap
A beautiful Norfolk harbor view. I attended LOEX for the first time this year, and it was a wonderful experience! I returned to UNI with so many new connections across Libraryworld and exciting ideas...
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How Can We Teach Material We Know *Too* Well?
Image credit: xkcd. This semester, I’ve been participating in a multidisciplinary discussion group with other University of Northern Iowa faculty who teach general education courses. We’re reading How...
View ArticleLearning from Lukewarm Library Instruction
I said in my November post that it wouldn’t be the only one I wrote about library instruction. As someone who is still new to teaching and class instruction, learning how to be an engaging, fun, and...
View ArticleLet’s Discuss: How Should We Handle AI in One-Shots?
Whenever I teach a one-shot, there’s an AI-shaped elephant in the room. The rapid advancement of AI technologies has changed so much about how students approach completing assignments, which shapes the...
View ArticleTeaching with Twenty-Four Hours’ Notice
The Setup This likely won’t be my only FYAL blog post about library instruction. When I started my master’s degree, I initially looked for a path in an aspect of librarianship that didn’t include...
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...
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...
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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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFeeling 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 ArticleHow Did You Learn to Teach?
If there’s one regret I have about graduate school, it’s that I never learned to teach. No courses on education are required as part of the curriculum, and the one class I remember being available was...
View ArticleFollowing the road of assessment
This Fall semester has been taking off like a rocket. It’s been a little less than a month, but library instruction has been taking up a good chunk of my time. At my institution, American University,...
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