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Intentional failure and Rhianna's tattoo as pedagogy
(Elsevier, 2022-07-05)Academic teaching librarians are often classroom visitors, with limited time to build relationships with students and teach them something useful. To maximize impact, librarians commonly deploy a canned search to demonstrate ... -
Evaluating the Consistency and Quality of Search Strategies and Methodology in Cochrane Urology Group Systematic Reviews
(2018)Introduction: Systematic reviews (SRs) are the foundation of evidence-based medicine. As essential tools for synthesizing and evaluating evidence, they guide informed decision-making for clinicians and other stakeholders. ... -
Bit by Byte: Building Best Practices in Data Literacy
(2022-05-05)Data-related jobs are among some of the fastest growing in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for data scientists is likely to grow by more than 30% by 2030 (Kness, 2022). Even if students ... -
Twitter and Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis
Since the inception of Twitter in 2006, the platform has grown tremendously, with over 199 million daily active users worldwide as of May 2021 (Tankovska, 2021). The use of Twitter in academia is of particular interest ... -
Creative collaboration: Research as creative act in the art studio classroom
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Memes and the art of literacy maintenance
(2021-03-31)Memes are powerful social media tools, but also powerful information literacy artifacts. Through theory and practice, memes have an important place in how we understand the way our students are thinking, how we can envision ... -
Review of Loose parts 3: Inspiring culturally sustainable environments
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Life and literature beneath the surface: Using neurodiverse young adult literature as mentor texts for narrative writing
(Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English, 2020)When capturing the inner life of neurodiverse characters, authors of young adult literature (YAL) often make compelling, unconventional choices with structure, formatting, syntax, and diction. Stories shaped through this ... -
A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
(The Mythopoeic Society, 2018)Applies Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to a study of Frodo’s motivations and role models in the early phases of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s incorporation of extensive background material deepens our understanding of his ... -
Change is Hard: Using Conceptual Change Theory to Promote "Research as Inquiry"
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From Idea to Instagram: How an Academic Library Marketing Committee Created a Character for the YouTube Generation
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016-05)After observing low usage statistics for a handful of library services, Albert S. Cook Library’s Marketing Committee decided to create videos to promote underutilized resources. In past videos, the library relied on student ... -
More of the same? Understanding transformation in tablet-based academic library instruction.
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Academic librarians have shared their experiences with tablet computers, but few examine how librarians use tablets in their instruction design. While the education literature provides technology integration models, the ... -
Rediscovering Renaissance Research: Information Literacy Strategies for Success
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-01)While remaining cognizant of several aspects of current information literacy (IL) instruction methods, including threshold concepts, the author re-created experiences shared by students as she searched for, analyzed, and ... -
Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with Google Drive
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)By using the various tools available through Google Drive (forms, spreadsheets, presentations), librarians can increase student participation and provide more interactive instruction sessions. This chapter will profile how ... -
A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies
(portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012)This article reviews the history of open access (OA) policies and examines the current status of mandate policy implementations. It finds that hundreds of policies have been proposed and adopted at various organizational ... -
Review of Children's Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide
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Review of Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library
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Online Access to Higher Education on YouTube EDU
(New Library World, 2013)Purpose: The purpose of this one-year longitudinal study is to examine the usage and production of educational videos on YouTubeEDU, an open, video-sharing, educational area of YouTube established in 2009 and used primarily ... -
No Pedagogical Advantage Found Between LibGuides and Other Web Page Information Literacy Tutorials [Evidence Summary]
(2015)This evidence summary is a review and analysis of: Bowen, A. (2014). LibGuides and web-based library guides in comparison: Is there a pedagogical advantage? Journal of Web Librarianship, 8(2), 147-171. doi: 10.1080/19322 ... -
I Just Want Tenure: Mapping Librarian Dissatisfaction with Library Science Scholarship
(ACRL Conference, 2015-03)This research is formulated on a single large significant assumption – that there exists among readers of LIS literature some degree of dissatisfaction associated with the quality of library literature. It was designed ...
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