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Author
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Academic librarians must be educators in their own right, and the key lies in becoming a proactive teacher and collaborator. Reale discusses the changing perception of academic librarians; shows how they can and should assert their rightful place in the learning cycle; looks at how to match teaching goals with academic librarians' missions; advocates for the indispensable roles they should play, including co-collaborator, one-on-one research consultant,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with planning a one-shot library instruction session, librarians can feel hard-pressed to squeeze in all their library has to offer along with tips on the research process. Authentic learning with student interaction may seem unattainable in only an hour. But it's not. The keys are communicating clearly with the course instructor, developing a realistic plan, and employing effective teaching strategies. With more than 30 years' combined experience...
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Academic Libraries and the Academy is a thorough collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries around the world are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and effectively demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders. Forty-two case studies are divided into...
Series
ACRL publications in librarianship volume no. 73
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Framing Information Literacy: Teaching Grounded in Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice is a collection of lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. 52 chapters over six volumes provide approachable explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities....
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The chapters in this volume fit under four themes. the first focuses on our profession: the competencies it requires and strategies for being more effective in it. The second adds to our knowledge of the faculty we serve: their roles and responsibilities, their reactions to feedback, and the effects of their beliefs. In the third section, we revisit our reason for being: students, along with how they learn and how we can have a positive impact on...
Author
Series
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 17
Three Pines mystery volume 17
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Chief Inspector Gamache Novels volume Book 17
Three Pines mystery volume 17
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Chief Inspector Gamache Novels volume Book 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"You're a coward." Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country, yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers from a wide variety of disciplines...
Author
Publisher
Library Juice Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Explores possibilities for college library instruction and writing program partnerships from a variety of vantage points, including empirical on student writing and information literacy development, policies and standards, interviews with librarian-compositionist partners, cultural and structural contexts that influence librarians' and writing instructors' work environments, and reflexive pedagogical praxis"--
11) White noise
Author
Language
English
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Description
A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The authors look at collaborating with faculty and engaging with students to the point where they begin their research: in their learning management system (LMS) classroom. The embedded librarian develops a sense of partnership, participation, and community with students and faculty, becoming an active participant in the course.
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As librarians, we often find ourselves outside the traditional structure of our education system. Time limits add another layer of complexity; how can we motivate students to learn when we only see them for an hour or two? Motivating Students on a Time Budget begins with a section of research-based, broad-level considerations of student motivation as it relates to short-term information literacy instruction, both in person and online. It then moves...
Series
Practical guides for librarians volume no. 26
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Businesses have always recognized the value of "facetime" in keeping a customer. With the rise of online services, e-book collections, and other virtual resources, it is still necessary to connect on a more personalized venue. This collection of essays examines successful approaches and initiatives for personal library programs.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"--Para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
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