Maintaining Your Instruction Mojo
This post is somewhat of a follow-up to my last one on the involved library administrator. In that post I identified some reasons why an academic library administrator should consider staying actively...
View ArticleMust Scheduling be Sisyphean?
I was planning to post last week about something interesting I’d read in the library or higher ed news and literature, but I haven’t kept up with my reading as much as usual recently. The task that’s...
View ArticleDon’t Make It Easy For Them
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Andy Burkhardt, Emerging Technologies Librarian at Champlain College in Vermont. He also blogs at Information Tyrannosaur. I...
View ArticleResearch Librarianship in Crisis: Mediate When, Where, and How?
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is by Bohyun Kim, Digital Access Librarian, Florida International University Medical Library. She blogs at Library Hat. The talk...
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Flipping Out: Preflip Planning
One of my current professional goals is to experiment with new ways to improve my library instruction sessions and grow as an instructor. So when our residency librarian decided to lead a group of...
View ArticleFlipping Out: Reflections Upon Landing
Last month, I shared my plans for creating “flipped” library instruction sessions. Now, after wrapping up my last flipped session, along with several conversations with my colleauges, and the...
View ArticleGetting Started with Instruction
This semester marks a significant step for me as I’m finally getting into doing instruction sessions on my own. Throughout last fall, I observed a lot of instruction sessions from several librarians...
View ArticleEmbedding, Flipping, and More at LOEX 2014
I was fortunate to be able to attend the LOEX Conference this year, which took place May 8-10 in Grand Rapids, MI. I have only ever heard great things about this conference, and accordingly, I had a...
View ArticleMusings on Outreach as Instruction
Last week, librarians from many branches of our university gathered for a Teaching Librarians Retreat. The retreat was organized and hosted by a few wonderful colleagues, who I cannot thank enough for...
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Navigating (New) Relationships with Faculty: Valuing Service
I start my first professional position in less than a month. I repeat: less than a month! I’ll be one of three Information Literacy Librarians on Davidson College’s team. I have been thinking about...
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Being “Human” In the Classroom: A Case for Personal Testimony in Pedagogy
I’m three months into my first year as an academic librarian and it has been a whirlwind. Conversations with many of my LIS friends confirm that the transition to professional librarianship presents...
View ArticleStarting from the bottom and teaching my way to the top
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jessica Kiebler, Reference/Instruction Librarian at Berkeley College. My journey into the world of librarianship started with my failure to get a job as an elementary...
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,...
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 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 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...
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