York librarian Scott Sheidlower and co-author Joshua Vossler provide advice and strategies on how to use humor to encourage student learning during librarian-led instruction sessions. From a review in the Colorado Libraries journal: “Vossler and Sheidlower focus on ways to make library instruction sessions interesting. … Recommended for academic and school instruction librarians who are looking for a new way to breathe life into what can sometimes be a monotonous and repetitive presentation. “ Humor and information literacy was also selected for the “Books to check out” column of Computers in Libraries, in October 2011.
A longer review from John Drobnicki is in the York College library newsletter Passport Password for summer 2012, page 4.
Joshua Vossler and Scott Sheidlower. Humor and Information Literacy: Practical Techniques for Library Instruction. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.
thank you for the correction!
Thanks Ellen. Actually, the title of our Library newsletter is Password – although Passport sounds like a good title, too.