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My favorite part of the job is to work with faculty and their students. Going to Session 10 this afternoon about using primary sources in higher education was a great way to start the afternoon. My biggest take-aways were to develop a scaffold approach to instruction and to encourage students to embrace the uncertainty that […]

we’re focusing more in my library on data driven decisions, so I was excited to attend this morning’s user experience session. Joyce Chapman, a consultant for the State Library of North Carolina, shared with us her thoughts about assessment practice. She specifically talked about the assessment cycle, which includes: planning, implementation, analysis/reporting and reacting/refining results. […]

The conference began with Martin Levitt an adjunct professor, who has taught in Temple University’s History Department for 20 years. He recently retired after teaching archival education classes. His talk focused on trends he has observed and a few areas that signal future directions of our profession. My favorite comment that Levitt made was to […]

I recently attended a workshop taught by John Logie of the University of Minnesota. Professor Logie shared with us experiences with implementing multimodal learning assignments into his upper level undergraduate courses. We began by exploring three tools that can help instructors wade into this territory: Prezi, Padlet and PechaKucha. The main takeaway from Professor Logie’s […]

I’m excited to share with the details of a current collaborative project that we’re working on at the University of Rochester. The Seward Family Editorial Project is a team based project that one of our History faculty members, Professor Tom Slaughter is directing.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the quality of service I offer researchers who come to use the materials in our Special Collections Department. As the Historical Manuscripts Librarian, most of the patrons I work with are from outside the university. However, more and more, undergraduates and graduate students are becoming involved in experiential […]

This spring I participated in LILAC or the Library Instruction Leadership ACademy offered through the Rochester Regional Library Council. We spent the semester attending a series of workshops that walked us through effective instruction techniques including: understanding student learning behaviors, collaboration with students and faculty, uses of technology and learning outcomes. We also observed three […]

My last session at MARAC provided me with a lot of food for thought as I head back to my organization. Alison Langmead a professor at the University of Pittsburg pushed the audience to consider where archivists should insert themselves in the field of data visualization. The most compelling part of her argument for me […]