Episode 22: Kicking off 2011 with Catherine Pellegrino

Listen to Episode 22 (mp3, ~49 minutes)

Rachel, Jason, and Anna have the great privilege to speak with guest, Catherine Pellegrino, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator at the St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. 

Show Notes: 

• Spurious Tuples, Catherine's Blog
• Library Society of the World
• LSW FriendFeed Thread re: End of Session Feedback/Evaluation/Value Meaurement
• LSW on FriendFeed
• Quickie overview of the assessment tool, "One-Minute Paper" [not just for the large, lecture-type class]

Episode 21: Winging it

Steve Lawson joins us to discuss winging it: low- and no-prep instruction sessions.

Links we mentioned:

• Steve’s blog: See Also…
• Pegasus Librarian by Iris Jastram
  
• The Improbable Source by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

(Apologies if some of the audio is slightly rough: in keeping with the theme of the show, Rachel and Jason had to improvise some of their podcasting equipment this month.)

MP3 link

Episode 20: The End of Tax Season (for Instruction Librarians)

Listen to Episode 20 (mp3, ~55 minutes)

Rachel, Jason, and Anna are ecstatic to have guest, Mary MacDonald, Associate Professor and Head of Instructional Services and Information Literacy Librarian at the University of Rhode Island. 

Show Notes:

• University of Rhode Island's Plan for Information Literacy
• URI 101: Traditions and Transformations -- Library Experience Session (LibGuide), used in conjunction with the Cephalonian Method
• Innovative library induction: Introducing the 'Cephalonian Method'
• LIB 120: Introduction to Information Literacy at URI
• Burkhardt, J. M., MacDonald, M. C., & Rathemacher, A. J. (2010). Teaching information literacy: 50 standards-based exercises for college students. Chicago: American Library Association.   

Instruction materials Mary recommends: 

• Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section. Analysis of instructional environments. American Library Association (Last accessed: 2010 November 23);
• Bain, K. (2004). What the best college teachers do. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press;
• Grassian, E. S., & Kaplowitz, J. R. (2001). Information literacy instruction: Theory and practice. Information literacy sourcebooks. New York: Neal-Schuman;
• Proceedings from LOEX Conference;
• List-Handley, C. J. (2008). Information literacy & technology. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt (and all her earlier works!!!); and
• Check out resources reviewed by ACRL Instruction Section's Teaching Methods Committee.

Episode 19: This Time It's A Reunion

Listen to Episode 19 (mp3, ~56 minutes)

Rachel, Jason, and Anna invited past guests back to chat, and it was not only informative and educational, but great fun!  Joining us for this episode:

• Chad Mairn, Librarian and Part-time Faculty Member at St. Petersburg College
• Twitter: cmairn

• Peter Larsen, Physical Sciences & Engineering Librarian & Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island

• Stephen Francoeur, Information Services Librarian at Baruch College
• Twitter: s_francoeur
• Blog: Digital Reference
• Blog: Beating the Bounds

Show Notes:

• Database Troubleshooting Guide at St. Petersburg College
• PollEverywhere
• Yuuguu -- screen sharing software 
• California Open Source Textbook Project (COSTP) 
• Google Docs -- shared workspace for students
• LIB 120: Introduction to Information Literacy at URI
• A Better System for Classifying Sources
• Bizup, J. (2008). BEAM: A rhetorical vocabulary for teaching research-based writing. Rhetoric Review, 27 (1), 72-86.
• New Podcast Alert: The WGIL Room Issues in library instruction, information literacy, and emerging technology. Give it a listen!

Episode 18: This Really Is September's Episode

Listen to Episode 18 (mp3, ~44 minutes)

Rachel, Jason, and Anna talk about expanding their teaching repertoires:

• transliteracy endeavors,
• upperclass/advanced student teaching methods, and
• guiding from the side

Show Notes:

• Swiss Army Librarian;
  
• Libraries and Transliteracy;
• Jason at Georgia COMO; and
• Rachel's biggest tip when creating active learning exercises [paraphrased].

Episode 17: Collab-o-rama

Listen to Episode 17 (mp3, ~54 minutes)

Rachel, Jason, and Anna talk collaboration -- with faculty, with graduate students, with community organizations, with other librarians, etc.

Show Notes:

• Brad Sucks via Magnatune;
• Jason's excellent collaboration: History of New Media LibGuide;
  
• New Orleans Research Collaborative
  
• Jason's writing a Zotero book

Episode 16: Digital Reference Instructional Strategies

Episode 16 (59 minutes, mp3)

Jason and Rachel are joined by Stephen Francoeur, and discuss "Instructional Strategies for Digital Reference: Methods to Facilitate Student Learning".

It's helpful but not necessary to read the article beforehand.

Full citation:
Oakleaf, M., & VanScoy, A. (2010). Instructional Strategies for Digital Reference: Methods to Facilitate Student Learning. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 49(4), 380-390.