Embedded Librarians: Reaching People Where They Learn
Friday April 27th, 2012
9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Sacramento State Alumni Center
State University Drive South
Sacramento, CA 95826
For the schedule of events, please see our 2012 program.
For information on parking permits and where to park for the conference, please see the campus parking map.
The 2012 flyer includes the workshop descriptions, information on meals, and information on registration.
The Future of Embedded Librarianship: Best Practices and Opportunities
Cassandra Kvenild, Distance Learning Librarian, University of Wyoming
As more libraries adopt embedded librarian initiatives, what can we learn from their experiences? This presentation will explore innovative models of embedding library instruction in multiple institutions. Find out how librarians are establishing long-term ties with courses and departments through ongoing targeted instruction.
We will examine ways in which different libraries tailor their embedded instruction offerings based on local staffing and resources, and discuss strategies for creating a scalable approach to embedding. Finally, we will look at how to assess the impact of your embedded instruction program.
An Outcomes-based Approach for Developing Effective and Entertaining Instructional Videos
Joshua Vossler, Information Literacy / Reference Librarian, Coastal Carolina University
Instructional videos, while offering attractive features such as ease of scalability, remote and asynchronous instruction, and consistency of user-experience, can be challenging to produce and maintain. The technologies necessary to create and implement video have become increasingly affordable and easy to use, resulting in an increase in instructional video production across a variety of institutions.
To be most effective, however, video producers must follow best practices for the development of all instructional materials, as well as provide viewers with an enjoyable experience. Because the content of instructional videos can be less than stimulating, videos should be able to capture and maintain the audience’s attention. A boring video doesn’t get watched, and even worse, can be an outreach nightmare. This presentation will outline an outcomes-based approach for developing instructional videos, offer a list of best-practices, and engage participants with an exercise for generating entertaining content for use in videos, or other instructional contexts.
Presentation handout.
The Embedded Library: How the University of Arizona Libraries are Taking it to their Users
Michael Brewer, Team Leader for Instructional Services, University of Arizona Libraries
This presentation will detail the genesis, for the University of Arizona Libraries, of the core concept of “embeddedness” – articulated by Dean Carla Stoffle as “Everywhere you are, the Library” – and how that principle has since been manifest in the design and delivery of many of our library services.
Central among these is the library’s new CMS “SuperWidget,” which has been designed to push course-appropriate library content and services into all courses sites on campus. This approach of “taking the library to the user” not only gives the library nearly 100% penetration of the UA “student market,” it also engages the teaching faculty within their instructional context, providing us with a firm foundation for any further faculty/librarian instructional collaborations.
Additional Venue Information
Directions
From the West:
Proceed East on Hwy 50. Exit at Howe/Power Inn Road. Stay in the right lane, and turn right at first opportunity, before reaching Power Inn Road. Go under freeway on Hornet Drive, get into left lane. Make left on College Town Drive. Proceed West to campus. Alumni Center is on the right just before the stadium.
From the East:
Proceed West on Hwy 50. Exit at Howe/Power Inn Road. Go straight at signal light onto College Town Drive. Proceed West to campus. Alumni Center is on the right just before the stadium.
View and print a campus map of the Alumni Center.
Parking
Ample and convenient parking surrounds the Alumni Center. Daily parking permits can be purchased at kiosks surrounding the campus for $6; two-hour permits can also be purchased from the kiosks for $3.