Presenter:
Iris Finkel,
Reference and Instruction Librarian/Visiting Lecturer
Hunter College Libraries

Attendees:

• Elisabeth Oliu (Middlesex County College Library)
• Peter Hare (Bank Street College of Ed.)
• Trevar Riley-Reid (City College)
• Anne Leonard (NYC College of Technology)
• Alexandra Rojas (LaGuardia CC)

Experiences:

• Hunter: Iris presented her experience in Modernism and the Image
  • What worked?
    • Being proactive by following student blog posts and commenting when appropriate
    • Training on finding images from open access sources
    • Research guidance
  • What didn’t?
    • Not enough in-class instruction time for librarian
• Middlesex:
  • Too difficult to fully embed; not enough librarians — too many teaching sessions
  • Course management system: Campus Cruiser
  • Attempted to embed but technology glitch – collaboration status in course not working so scratched embedded model
  • Uses Remind to contact students
• Laguardia:
  • Has brown bag lunches for library faculty to review different databases(Alexandra suggested that Jeff use CC license on website)

Concerns:

• Time – suggest attend 1x a month to establish relationship with students
• Scale – how to scale with limited amount of librarians

Ideas:

• Suggest embedding in class 1x a month vs. one shot
• Use different platforms for communicating with students
  • Example: City Tech Open Labs
• Laguardia Center for Teaching and Learning – Inquiry assignments; information literacy sessions for faculty; application to participate

Resources:

• PDF of Iris Finkel’s PowerPoint presentation
• References:
  • ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. (2011).
  • Daugherty, A. L. & Russo, M. F (Eds.). (2013). Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC (Worldcat/CUNY Catalog)
  • Hanggi, K. & Valk, A. (2014, Jun 27). Embedded Librarian in the Multimodal Classroom.
  • Hattwig, D., Bussert, K., Medaille, A., & Burgess, J. (2013). Visual Literacy Standards in Higher Education: New Opportunities for Libraries and Student Learning. Libraries and the Academy. V.12, N.1 . January 2014. pp 61-89. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from Project Muse.
  • Kvenild, C. & Calkins, K. (Eds.) . (2011). Embedded Librarians: Moving Beyond One-Shot Instruction. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. (Worldcat/CUNY Catalog)