[Asis-l] Diane Nahl leads journal club discussion in SL, 22nd Feb, all welcome

[Sheila A Webber]

Where: In the virtual world, Second Life (SL),
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/
You need a SL avatar, and the SL browser on your computer, to participate.

When: Wednesday 22nd February 12 noon to 1pm Second Life time (which
is the same as Pacific time, see http://tinyurl.com/7q9388f for times
elsewhere)

What: Journal Club, led by Professor Diane Nahl, University of Hawaii,
USA  (Adra Letov in Second Life) All welcome!

She leads discussion of:
Shank, J.D. and Dewald, N. 2012. "Academic Library Administrators’
Perceptions of Four Instructional Skills". College & Research
Libraries, 73 (1),  78-93.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/1/78.abstract
"Instruction makes up a significant portion of academic librarians’
work and administrative support for instruction is critical to a
successful instruction program. The authors examined academic library
administrators’ perceptions of librarian abilities in four areas of
instruction." American Library Association (ALA) journals are now open
source. The above title is a publication of the ALA, Association for
College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Click the Full Text (PDF) link
on the right of the page.

**Questions for discussion**
Some questions to consider for discussion from your own perspective:

1.    How do librarians integrate instructional design into their work?

2.    What role does educational technology play in academic librarians’ work?

3.    Which skills are most important for librarians in increasingly
technological academic information environments (Table 3 summarizes)?
Is blended librarianship a useful approach?

4.    What sorts of support do academic librarians need from
administration to stay abreast and be innovative with technologies in
their work?

5.    How can front line librarians influence administrators to gain
needed support?

This is a Centre for Information Literacy Research event, hosted by
the Sheffield University iSchool

-- 
Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of
Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 114 222 2641
Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa
The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/