Innovative Online Instruction & Outreach

Check out how Yale’s Science Library is applying Twitter (microblogging service) and Flickr (photosharing service) to deliver online instruction and outreach!

https://twitter.com/yalescilib
http://flickr.com/photos/yalescilib/collections/72157600264276497/

Geisel WW Tours student data & feedback

Geisel Welcome Week Tours data from 2007 & 2006:

2007, Geisel Tour Survey Results

2007, Geisel Tours, Random Sample of Majors and College Affiliation

2007 Tour Pix

2006, Geisel Tour Survey Results

2006, Geisel Tours, Random Sample of Majors and College Affiliation

iTunes U

Apple recently sent out one of its first emails promoting iTunes U, which claims to presently contain more than 50,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. Here’s a link to more info and a video tutorial.

It’s rumored that UCSD is planning to participate at some point, but so far it’s only UC Berkeley and Davis that are listed.

excerpt: “Now your favorite destination for music and movies is also a great place to entertain your brain. iTunes U in the iTunes Store offers free audio and video content from top universities, famous museums, public media stations, and other cultural institutions. So whether you want to learn from the world’s leading thinkers, get a sneak peek at the latest MoMA exhibition, or simply brush up on your Spanish, iTunes U makes it easy. To see for yourself, watch the tutorial.”

Wordle clouds

I’m not sure exactly how you’d use this–I’m thinking presentations.. But Wordle is just really nifty. Paste in some text or a url and it creates a lovely little cloud for you. Try it!

New LOEX Quarterly

The new issue of LOEX quarterly is available and online. The instructions I received in the email announcement seem a little…involved. So I’ll include them here.

“Volume 35, Issue 1 of the LOEX Quarterly is now posted. Remember: as with the previous issue, the Quarterly has migrated to a new, more easily browseable format which also now has searching capability.

After you click on any of the articles you wish to read under “Volume 35″, it will take you - after about 5-10 seconds - to the article’s page in the digital repository, EagleSpace. To view the article, simply click on “View/Open”; if this the first time you have done so during your current web session, it will ask you for a log-in and password.
That information is:
my.emich username: loex_member
Password: loex1849

That specific article will then open in a new window. Once you are done with that article, you can close that window, and then just hit the “Back” button in your browser while at the article’s EagleSpace page to go back to the web list of articles.”

First Year Student Assessment

This article might gives us some of the data for our student assumptions & IL, and might be worth delving into at a meeting at some point in the future. It is a huge report (may be slow to load too) – a quick peek at the summary is interesting. They identified 11 questions where students answered correctly less than 36% of the time.

Check it out at http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/documents/bibl/formation/studies_Ang.pdf.

WASC@UCSD

Here are some links to the UCSD WASC information:

• General information about the process: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/Default.aspx
• Campus committees: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/committees.aspx
• Past accreditation reports: http://accreditation.ucsd.edu/historical/
• Approach for the Educational Effectiveness Review (including Information Literacy)

Proficiencies for instruction librarians

I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m the last UCSD instruction librarian to discover that there are actually standards of proficiency for instruction librarians! I ran across these ACRL proficiencies while I was cleaning out my office in preparation for the upcoming re-carpeting of S&E in the October 2007 issue of C&RL News. It was a very interesting exercise to go through the list of proficiencies and see how many I actually possess! Check them out.

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/profstandards.cfm

LOEX 2008

This is painfully late, but hopefully I can get it posted before all the ALA updates! The theme of this year’s LOEX was Librarian as Architect: Planning, Building and Renewing. Slides and handouts for some of the presentations are here. I’m highlighting three sessions I attended. . . Continue reading LOEX 2008…

5 Things You Should Read About Copyright and Sharing Your Instructional Materials

Are you paranoid? I mean, cautious and conscientious? Then the first in a series of what will probably be many publications from the new ACRL IS Research & Scholarship committee is for you. You’ll find “5 Things You Should Read About Copyright and Sharing Your Instructional Materials” Here
“The recommended “5 Things” are intended to be eclectic and thought-provoking, and are drawn not only from traditional library literature but also from popular magazines and newspapers, the blogosphere, archived web presentations, and other media. (They) hope the “5 Things” will spark discussion among instruction librarians both on ILI-L and in person at the conference and in our libraries.”