Monthly Archives: June 2009

How do you teach students to choose and develop topics?

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Laura

As of tomorrow, I’ll officially be the Web Services Librarian – and I’ll no longer be part of the library’s Research & Instruction division. However, I will still be working at the reference desk and teaching information literacy topics to … Continue reading →

Posted in instruction | 1 Comment

Using WorldCat.org rather than the FirstSearch interface

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Laura

I mentioned on FriendFeed that I am planning to propose a small change to my colleagues – that we remove the link to the FirstSearch interface to WorldCat and replace it with a link to WorldCat.org. Someone commented that they’d … Continue reading →

Posted in administrative | 5 Comments

What I am doing this summer

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Laura

Inspired by Catherine Pellegrino’s recent post about what she is working on this summer, I thought I’d do a post about my own summer projects. Although I’m officially transitioning to my new position on July 1, I’m already working on … Continue reading →

Posted in being a librarian | 1 Comment