The Library Sessions

Season 3, Episode 6: Academic Year Wrap Up

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:00:38 +0000

Martinique and Jen are back with a brief episode to talk about their instruction highlights this past academic year. Jen talked about an assessment project she’s helping get going at her institution, and Martinique shared some information about a unique class she designed and taught.

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Martinique and Jen are going to take a small summer break, but they’ll be back again in the Fall with more episodes of The Library Sessions!

Season 3, Episode 5: OER and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 31 May 2019 14:00:00 +0000

Join us for the final episode of the Library Sessions IPA (Inclusive Pedagogical Activities), our series with the CARLI Instruction Committee. Last but definitely not least, Jen and Marielle interview Chris Davidson, Campus and Community Engagement Librarian, and Lauren McKeen, Librarian and Web Manager, both from the Northwestern University Libraries. Chris and Lauren talk about how their campus approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion in both physical and digital spaces, how OER connects with those initiatives, and how librarians might be able to embrace OER and open pedagogy in their own teaching.

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Chris and Lauren shared some links for the resources they mentioned in their interview. If you’re looking to learn more about OER and open pedagogy, check them out!

Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) at Northwestern: https://air.northwestern.edu/
Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Open Pedagogy Notebook: http://openpedagogy.org/
Blog post, “Opening the framework: connecting open education practices and information literacy”: https://openoregon.org/opening-the-framework/

Season 3, Episode 4: Accommodations vs. Universal Design

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:00:58 +0000

This month, Jen and Martinique talk to Kimberly Shotick, the Assistant Dean for User Services and Outreach at the Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Kimberly has a lot of experience in the areas of accessibility and universal design for learning, and she shares some of what she’s learned. She talks about the difference between accommodation and universal design, strategies for ensuring you are providing everyone with the chance to learn in your library instruction, how to make your LibGuides accessible, and how libraries can better support all students through thoughtful design.

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If you’re interested in learning more, check out Kimberly’s chapter about UDL in LibGuides:

Shotick, K. (2016). Access and universal design for learning in LibGuides 2.0. In A. W. Dobbs & R. L. Sittler (Eds.), Integrating LibGuides into library websites (189-200). New York, NY: Rowan and Littlefield.

Connecting with Diversity and Inclusion Departments on Campus (Season 3 episode 3)

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:00:41 +0000

Dio Aldridge, Special Assistant to the Dean and Provost for Diversity and Inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, drops some knowledge on us in this episode which is all about inclusive pedagogy, inclusive spaces, and more. We move through imposter syndrome, empowering students in the classroom and one-on-one, and how you can work on inclusive pedagogical practices in the small window of time librarians have in a one shot.

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Dio mentioned the following resources in the episode:

The Room of Silence from Eloise Sherrid on Vimeo.

And Pronoun Training, a resource from UC Davis’ LGBTQIA Resource Center

Season 3, Episode 2: Partnering with CARLI

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Martinique and Jen are thrilled to begin their podcast series in collaboration with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI) Instruction Committee! In this episode, Jen talks to committee members Mackenzie Salisbury and Marielle McNeal. They share a bit about about themselves, about CARLI and the Instruction Committee, and about why they proposed this podcast collaboration. We cannot WAIT to talk to all the fantastic guests they have set up!

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Want to find out more about our plans, about CARLI, or anything else related to library instruction? Post here, email us, or visit us on Facebook.

Show Notes:

Here are links to some of the resources and organizations Mackenzie and Marielle mentioned, including some upcoming opportunities for professional development. We hope you get involved, especially if you’re in Illinois!

CARLI Instruction Website
CARLI Webinar in March
CARLI Instruction Showcase Call/Description
CARLI December Twitter Chat Archive

Season 3, Episode 1: Bring on 2019!

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:36:09 +0000

Jen and Martinique are back for a new episode in a new year! In this short conversation, they discuss some of the exciting things in store for The Library Sessions in the upcoming year. They’ll talk about an upcoming podcast series they’ll be doing with the CARLI Instruction Committee, what kind of audience participation they are hoping to get, goals they have for making the podcast a better listening experience, and more. Happy 2019 everyone!

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As usual, if you have anything to say or want to find out more, comment here, email us at librarysessions@gmail.com, or find us on Facebook.

Season 2, Episode 6

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:00:02 +0000

We know this episode is coming fast on the heels of our last one and it’s not posting on our usual Friday, but we wanted to make sure we got this up before the end of the year! This week, Jen and Martinique talk to Tish Hayes, Information Literacy Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College and one of the organizers of the Information Literacy Summit, a day-long conference in the Chicago suburbs focused on information literacy. We discuss the history of the Summit, some of the challenges of planning it, what the organizers see for the future, what they are looking for in proposals for 2019, as well as how we all are grappling with the idea of news literacy (the 2019 Summit theme) at our own institutions. Jen and Martinique love this conference, and we thoroughly enjoyed hearing about what goes into planning it. Have a listen!

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Want to find out more or see one of the resources mentioned in the episode? Click the links below.

Information Literacy Summit
The Summit will be held April 5, 2019 at the Moraine Valley Community College campus in Palos Hills, IL. The call for proposals is open until January 11, 2019. Get those submissions in!

Circulating Ideas
Tish’s colleague Troy Swanson has been doing a series on the Circulating Ideas podcast about news literacy. All the episodes are worth a listen, particularly his interview with 2019 Summit Keynote Dr. Nicole Cooke.

Project Information Literacy
We discussed the PIL study on news literacy and how it helps us understand more about how our students view, use, and make meaning from news.

Process Cards
Tish mentioned using Kevin Seeber’s Process Cards to explore news and literacy with students at her College.

Season 2, Episode 5: Librarians and the Peer Reviewed Research Process

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:00:20 +0000

In this episode, Martinique and Jen talk with Freeda Brook, Acquisition and Resource Management Librarian at Luther College. We talk about what benefits librarians might get from doing their own research and publishing and how that work can impact teaching in the library. Martinique and Freeda also share their current research project and where they plan to go with it in the future.

We also want to offer a big apology to our listeners for the audio quality on this episode. We had some technical difficulties that made Freeda’s audio in particular sound poor. The problems were entirely on our end, but we had such an excellent conversation that we still wanted to share it. Please know that improving our audio production is a top priority for us in the coming months, and we hope future episodes will be much easier on the ears! In the meantime, thanks for your patience.

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Want to find out more or see one of the resources mentioned in the episode? Click the links below.

In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library – by Freeda Brook

CFP: Critical Librarianship and Library Management – If you want to find out more about the forthcoming book Martinique and Freeda mentioned, check out the CFP (now closed) for more details.

Season 2, Episode 4: Reflecting on Immersion

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:15:44 +0000

Over the 2018 summer, Jen attended ACRL’s Immersion Program in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this episode, Jen and Martinique talk about how Immersion has changed since Martinique attended, what was most valuable and exciting about the new curriculum, and how this new Immersion might be useful for people. Jen had an excellent experience–we hope you enjoy hearing about it!

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Do you want to share your thoughts about Immersion, or anything else related to library instruction? If so, leave us a comment below or reach out to us on Facebook.

Show Notes:

You can find out more about ACRL’s Immersion Program online.

Season 2, Episode 3: Interview with Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby – Part 2

librarysessionspodcast@gmail.com (thelibrarysessions) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:00:57 +0000

It’s time for Part 2 of our fascinating conversation with Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby. We continue to discuss their article “Gendered Labor and Library Instruction Coordinators: The Undervaluing of Feminized Work.” We also discuss some of the common challenges library instruction coordinators face, what instruction coordinators do (or what we think they should do), how feminist theories could inform library practice, and much more.

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Want to tell us about your research or project? Have thoughts on what we discussed in this episode? We want to hear from you! Leave us a comment below or reach us on Facebook.