Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too

Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too
Author: Martin Raish
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810847675

What does the future hold for academic libraries and librarians? These nineteen essays offer some interesting observations and opinions about the problems and issues that are changing academic librarianship as we know it.

Research Strategies

Research Strategies
Author: William Badke
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-01-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1491722347

Online resources have given us access to more knowledge than ever before. Were buried in data, and defining what is and what is not genuine information becomes more of a challenge all the time. In this fifth edition of Research Strategies, author William Badke helps you make sense of all of the available information, shows you how to navigate and discern it, and details how to use it to your advantage to become a better researcher. Badke focuses on informational research and provides a host of tips and advice not only for conducting research, but also for everything from finding a topic to writing an outline to documenting resources and polishing the final draft. Study guides, practice exercises, and assignments at the end of each chapter help reinforce each lesson. An experienced research instructor who has led thousands of students to become better researchers, Badke uses humor to help you gain a better understanding of todays complex, technological world. Research Strategies provides the skills and strategies to efficiently and effectively complete a research project from topic to finished product. It shows how research can be exciting and even fun.

The Hunter and the Old Woman

The Hunter and the Old Woman
Author: Pamela Korgemagi
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1487008260

The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat. The “Old Woman” lives in the wild, searching for food, raising her cubs, and avoiding the two-legged creatures who come into her territory. But she is more than an animal — she is a mythic creature who haunts the lives and the dreams of men. Joseph Brandt has been captivated by the mountain lion’s legend since childhood, and one day he steps into the forest to seek her out. A classic in the making, The Hunter and the Old Woman is a mesmerizing portrait of two animals united by a shared destiny.

Teaching Research Processes

Teaching Research Processes
Author: William Badke
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-02-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 178063305X

Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand. Teaching Research Processes suggests a novel way in which information literacy can come within the remit of teaching faculty, supported by librarians, and reconceived as 'research processes'. The aim is to transform education from what some see as a primarily one-way knowledge communication practice, to an interactive practice involving the core research tasks of subject disciplines.This title is structured into nine chapters, covering: Defining research processes; Research ability inadequacies in higher education; Research processes and faculty understanding; Current initiatives in research processes; The role of disciplinary thinking in research processes; Research processes in the classroom; Tentative case studies in disciplinary research process instruction; Research processes transforming education; and Resourcing the enterprise. The book concludes by encouraging the reader to implement the teaching of research processes. - Engages the domain of teaching faculty rather than librarians only - Analyzes the reasons why the research processes concept represents a gap in academia - Focuses on research ability as a process that can be taught within disciplines

Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians

Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians
Author: Linda S Katz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317955226

Every librarian who teaches in an academic library setting understands the complexities involved in partnering with teaching faculty. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians recounts the efforts of librarians and faculty working together in disciplines across the board to create and sustain connections crucial to the success of library instruction. This unique collection of essays examines various types of partnerships between librarians and faculty (networking, coordination, and collaboration) and addresses the big issues involved, including teaching within an academic discipline, the intricacies of assigning grades, faculty perceptions of library instruction, and the changing role of the reference librarian. Education is the main focus of reference service in today's academic libraries and librarians teach a variety of single-session, course-related, course-integrated, or credit-bearing courses in nearly every discipline. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians reflects the experiences of librarians, teaching faculty, and library directors, whose perspectives range from cynicism to cautious optimism to idealism when it comes to working with teaching faculty. The book includes case studies, surveys, sample questionnaires, statistics, and a toolkit for establishing an effective library liaison program, and examines the teaching and learning environment, course growth and maintenance, and the “professor librarian” model. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians presents lessons learned from seeking a common ground including: a successful faculty/librarian collaboration for educational psychology and counseling a library research project for freshman engineering students a semester-by-semester look at a collaboratively taught graduate research and writing course a survey that determines how librarians and library directors feel about teaching outside the library an analysis of librarians’ attitudes toward faculty an analysis of attitudes that influence faculty collaboration in library instruction a look at innovative methods of increasing the teaching roles of librarians and much more! The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSA/CHE) has mandated that information literacy be included as part of a general education requirement. If your faculty wasn't calling for library instruction before the mandate, it probably is now. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians will help librarians establish communication with faculty that provides a solid foundation for coursework in all disciplines.

Best Practices for Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses

Best Practices for Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses
Author: Christopher Vance Hollister
Publisher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838985580

This work is a collection of previously unpublished papers in which contributing authors describe and recommend best practices for creating, developing and teaching credit-bearing information literacy (IL) courses at the college and university level. Contributors include academic librarians from universities, four-year colleges and community colleges to demonstrate successful IL course endeavors at their respective institutions. It includes several case studies of both classroom and online IL courses; some are elective and some required, some are discipline-specific and others are integrated into academic programs or departments. Contributors discuss useful and effective methods for developing, teaching, assessing and marketing courses. Also included are chapters on theoretical approaches to credit bearing IL courses and their history in higher education. Organized around three themes, create, develop and teach, this book provides practitioners and administrators with a start-to-finish guide to best practices for credit-bearing IL courses.

Pet

Pet
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Publisher: Make Me a World
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0525647090

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time • Buzzfeed • NPR • New York Public Library • Publishers Weekly • School Library Journal A genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as “like [Madeline] L’Engle…glorious.” A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question--How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? A riveting and timely young adult debut novel that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial. "[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut" –The New York Times "The word hype was invented to describe books like this." –Refinery29

Dysfunctional Meanderings

Dysfunctional Meanderings
Author: Sereena Nightshade
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1483688143

Dysfunctional Meanderings is a mixed medley adult picture book of previously published poetry and limited essays from Inoculation Theory. This book features the works listed as follows: Good Women, Lonely Women, Pecksniffian Carpet, The World of Thor, Candle, Falling, Venom, Yawning Blackness, Black Market, Cast Away, Unyielding, Sacrifice, Bat Dances, Scream, Remote Fantasies, Le Menu, Hell’s Films, Blitz Crackers, Pampered, Shimmering, Fool, Pustule, Outrageous, Running Out, Tonight, The Death of Fairies, Raining Down, Crackerjacks, Pain's Flower, Sheeting of Rubble, Cooking, Obvious, Good Enough Minimal, Language, The Pieces, Ay Carajo!, Starving, Message, Blame, Wickiup, Today, Beady Little Thing, How Many Too(s), Ode To My Love, Egg Sucking Snake, Exotic Species, Hunting Ground, Everywhere, A Futile Pursuit, Garbage, Strip Mining, Lesson, Stains, Mind Dance, Night Songs, Spider's Game, Don't Dance for Me, Heiress, The Cake, Inoculation Theory, Even Better – Yum-Yum in his Wicked Tum! The Achilles' Tendon, Big Words and Sarcasm, The Other Hand, Caged Enlightenment, Double Jeopardy with a Twist, Free Pass, Everyone in Their Place, and Striking. This writer has created works based on observations of others (including case studies watched in University class films, such as the entire Ileana series), tales from others (chat), for a book by another writer (never published), and through personal experiences. Dysfunctional Meanderings is a slice of all of these sources of information and/or insight into the lives of real live human beings within less than ideal situations. Numerous works herein have been labeled as ideal break-up poetry even if they were not originally written as such.

Information Literacy Instruction

Information Literacy Instruction
Author: Esther S. Grassian
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Incorporated
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The second edition of this guide for librarians who need to implement informational literacy programs for diverse learners has been revised to include new practices and technologies in the 21st century. Grassian served as a library administrator at theUCLA College Library, and she has teamed with fellow UCLA librarian Kaplowitz to deliver a plan that focuses on goal setting, mode selection, design, copyright and assessment of these programs. A CD-ROM is included that contains sample mission statements, tables that evaluate assessment tools, practice handouts and links to interactive Web pages. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).