Tag: instruction
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More on BEAM Model for Sources
I was honored to be asked back this week to the Adventures in Library Instruction podcast along with other guests from previous episodes. I learned about a number of interesting projects and ideas from the other guests. Chad Mairn makes use of PollEverywhere in his classes and workshops and finds it valuable for getting instant…
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A Better System for Classifying Sources
Keri Bertino and Heather Sample at the Writing Center at Baruch College, with whom I have been working on a series of workshops for students working on undergraduate honors theses, have completely revolutionized the way that I think about sources. This summer, my colleagues recommended to me an article from 2008 by Joseph Bizup from…
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Yahoo! Answers in the Wild
Yesterday, I got a chance to meet informally with the students who will be in my 3-credit course I’m teaching here in the library at Baruch College  (“Information Research for the Social Sciences and the Humanities”). When I was asking the students to tell me about kinds of research they have done that takes place…
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Yuuguu: A Desktop Sharing App
In the early 2000s, many of us who were interested in chat reference were flocking to software products that allowed us to synchronize our browser with our users so we could demonstrate how to set up a search in a database or have the user show us what they were doing. It seemed like a…
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Getting More Mileage Out of Reference Interactions
A recent article in Reference & User Services Quarterly caught my eye today: Finnell, Josh and Walt Fontane. “Reference Question Data Mining: A Systematic Approach to Library Outreach.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 49.3 (2010): 278-286. Web. The authors describe a process developed at the library at McNeese State University in which reference statistics recorded…