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LILAC in 2020 / Welcoming 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic would forever change the way librarians live, socialize, work and teach. Prior to March 16, 2020, I remember a life that was made up of commuter traffic, in-person meetings, and face-to-face time with students and teaching faculty. Soon an emerging virus would became deadly and very quickly the stay-at-home orders were initiated. […]
Spring Training Reports – Final Installment
Here are the last reports from the 2019 LILAC Spring Training. Looking forward to a great new school year with everyone! Culturally Responsive Teaching through the Intersectionality of Collection Development and Information Literacy Presented by Madeline Ruggiero, Queensborough Community College Blog post by Linda Miles (Hostos Community College) Madeline Ruggiero discussed the rationale and strategies […]
Spring Training reports – part III
Today we present the third installment of reports from the 2019 LILAC Spring Training. MoneyBoss Workshops – Financial Literacy for Community College Students Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration Presented by M. Anne O’Reilly (LaGuardia Community College) Blog post by Susan Wengler (Queensborough Community College) Building credit. Managing student debt. Preventing identity theft. These are just a few […]
Spring Training reports – part II
Today we share the second installment of reports on the 2019 LILAC Spring Training sessions. Wikipedia Redux: Using Wikipedia in One-Shots and Credit Courses Presented by Monica Berger (City Tech) Blog post by Julie Turley (Kingsborough Community College) Professor Berger’s presentation was an opportunity to ask the audience how they have used Wikipedia in an […]
Info Lit without Librarians?
A few years ago, while attending ACRL’s Immersion Program, an instructor held up an Ease-Impact matrix, a visual tool we could use to prioritize our IL program’s efforts. As this drawing illustrates, effort is measured against impact: In our class discussion, we decided, for example, one-shot sessions would fit in the lower-right quadrant of the […]
Spring Training reports – part I
After a rich experience at the 2019 LILAC Spring Training on 7, LILAC committee members and attendees are reporting back on the sessions they experienced that day. Today we share the first installment of those reports. Using Instructional Scaffolding to Teach Scholarly and Popular Sources Presented by Mark Aaron Polger (College of Staten Island) Blog […]
Scalability
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about scalability. This is not a new idea for me, but it has certainly been popping up more in my mind and sticking around longer. Maybe it’s because every year the middle-of-March madness creeps up on me and nearly knocks me over–how is it, really, that I can have […]
Gaming for Info Lit Flow
A few years ago Michael Waldman at Baruch Library was kind enough to recommend what he described as the least intimidating marathon training book, The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer, which introduced me to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow, as applied to long distance running. I learned that flow, an intense state when you’re fully engrossed in […]
Transferring skills from arts ed to info lit
The last job I held before becoming a librarian was as a facilitator of arts programs, working 11 years for ArtsConnection, a non-profit that brought professional visual and performing (music, dance, theater) artists into public schools pre-K-12 throughout the five boroughs of NYC. Each time I’ve changed careers, I’ve tried to carry over whatever I managed […]
The Power of PowerPoint
Alright, maybe it is not that powerful, but at least, useful. In my college days, professors’ lectures were mostly verbal and sometimes aided by a blackboard. The professor would either talk my head off throughout the whole lecture non-stop making me take notes busily in the fear that I might otherwise miss some important things, […]
