lightning talks
Embrace Your Inner Carrot Top! Rallying the Troops with Low-Tech, High-Energy, Proptastic Training
Kelly Delevan (Le Moyne College)
How do you introduce 650 freshmen to library resources in one day while retaining a personal touch? How do you get seven librarians on board with the idea of conducting a memorable, interactive, low-tech, high-energy instruction session 18 times in a single afternoon? The answer is to train the trainers, be flexible, plan for hiccups, and most of all, be hilarious!
One Dozen Ways to Connect with Your International Students
Erica Clay (Wright State University)
Our campuses are enjoying greater enrollment of international students than ever before and these students bring with them a variety of expectations about what a library offers and what librarians do. Librarians need to reach out to their international student populations and collaborate with other units on campus that work with international students to make the student experience friendly, welcoming, educational, and culturally safe. Attendees will gain at least one new activity to take back to their own library in order to better reach their own international students.
A Revamped Menu for Information Literacy Instruction: Catering to Newly Admitted Doctoral Students
Michelle Allen (Michigan State University)
I hear the phrase all the time from fourth and fifth year doctoral candidates: "I wish I knew this my first year!" While bittersweet, it is affirming to know that our newly developed information literacy instruction series is on track to earn a five star rating from the students and faculty at our College. Participants will come away with a full menu of tools and techniques used to meet the unique needs of these students, and the key elements of the project's success.
Seizing on SOPA: Are you Ready to go Viral?
Lea Susan Engle (Texas A&M University)
In January 2012, everyone was talking about SOPA and PIPA. You could not turn on a TV, radio, or computer without hearing about it. We knew our students would really take notice of the issue when one of their perennial favorite websites, Wikipedia, was unavailable. We created a simple LibGuide to help our students understand the proposed legislation, and 24 hours later we were on the news promoting our guide and the Libraries. Are you prepared to seize on your moment? Are you ready to go viral? Get ready now! Learn how to create an emergency success-management plan.
Will Lightning Strike? Using Active Learning to Help Connect Students to Information Literacy
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (Miami University)
We all know that active learning is a great way to engage students with information literacy skills. We also all struggle to create effective activities that can be used within a one-shot instruction session. This lightning talk will focus on the successes and failures of several activities that the speaker has done with undergraduate students in one-shot instruction sessions. Participants will also have a chance to share their own activities. They will be asked for their experiences and examples through PollEverywhere. Their responses will be gathered and later posted on a wiki to continue the discussion.
March 29, 2012