Library Podcasts

David Lee King has put together a great list of library-focused podcasts. I listen to most of them already but am now adding a couple more to my GReader - go check them out!

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WGIL Room 10: Got the One-Shot Assessment Blues

Dana, Mark and Dunstan talk one-shot and Gen Ed assessments: experiments, shortcomings, follow-ups and existential musings about the utility of one-shot data.

Download episode 10: (mp3: 56 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Mark's Annotated Bibliography Assessment Rubric
• SUNY General Education Student Learning Outcomes (Info Mgt and Critical Thinking req's are at bottom of list)
• RAILS (Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills)
• LibQUAL+
• SUNY Delhi Gen Ed Campus-Based Assessment Plan (scroll to page 89)
• Why E-Portfolios?

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Episode 9: Dragging Them to Water (Motivating Students)

Dana and Mark welcome new WGIL Room podcast participant, Dunstan McNutt as we delve deep into the issue of motivating students. Regular WGILer Carleen Huxley could not join us on the podcast this month, but we hope to have her back, along with Dunstan, next month!

Download episode 9: (mp3: 63 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Small, Ruth V., Nasriah Zakaria, and Houria El-Figuigul. "Motivational Aspects of Information Literacy Skills Instruction in Community College Libraries." College & Research Libraries 65, no. 2 (March 2004): 96-121. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed October 3, 2011).
• John Keller's ARCS Model and Motivational Design site
• What It Takes To Become A Scholar: helping students scale the taxonomy. The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2011, 5:24 pm
• Claire McGuinness, What Faculty Think–Exploring the Barriers to Information Literacy Development in Undergraduate Education, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 32, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 573-582 (full-text for subscribers only - sorry :-)

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Episode 8: RIP Session (Reputation, Identity and Privacy)

Wherein the regular crew of Carleen, Dana and Mark discuss issues of online reputation, identity & privacy and if and how we can tackle these issues in one-shot sessions. We also meander off in the second half to discussions of Google Plus, discovery layer search tools, and the lack of social components in library databases and tools.

Download Episode 8 (mp3: 64.11 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Choose Privacy (ALA video)
• Digital Tattoo (article about it: Goerzen, J., & Rosseel, T. (2010). Digital Tattoo: What's Yours?. PNLA Quarterly, 75(1), 66-69 - PDF - scroll to end of document for this article)
• Carleen's Slides on Facebook Privacy
• Infocult blog (posts categorized as Info Warfare)
• Google+ Complete Guide (Mashable)
• Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy, Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, College & Research Libraries Jan. 2011, vol. 72 no. 1 62-78. 
• Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft (NY Times article)

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Episode 7: SUNYLA Annual Conference Confab

Better late than never! I apologize, especially to the participants about the lateness of getting this podcast up. It was recorded in June, but took me into July to post it.

A small group of instruction librarians gathered one evening during the recent  SUNYLA Annual Conference (several weeks ago) in SUNY Plattsburgh to discuss any and all things conference-y or instruction-y. I started the recording in mid-discussion, so please forgive the confusing start. A more formal introduction is buried a couple minutes into the recording.

Download Episode 7 (mp3: 69.00 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• The Courage to Teach, Parker J. Palmer
• Other writings by Parker Palmer
• ALA Freedom to Read Statement
• National Library Week
• lower east side librarian blog

Additional podcast participants:

• Mike Daly, FMCC
• Darcy Gervasio, Purchase
• Barbara Kobritz, TC3
• Dunstan McNutt, Delhi
• Jim Nichols, Oswego
• Scott Richmond, Fredonia 

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Episode 6: Pride and Ownership

Wherein special guest Stacy Pratt, English professor at SUNY Jefferson Community College talks to us about working with her JCC librarians and several innovative assignments she's designed to equip her English students with research skills, and give them a sense of pride and ownership over their work (I apologize that my own mic is so hard to hear; not sure what happened - DL)


Download Episode 6 (mp3: 55.00 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education
• Metal Health Will Drive You Mad: Mental Illiness and Insanity in Heavy Metal Music (abstract  located about halfway down the page on left side)

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Episode 5: Doing the Literacy Wiggle

Wherein we discuss recent conferences (3 T's, ACRL, CiL) and dig our way into and among literacy landscapes.  We scour the topic with a metal detector, trying to unearth mysteries and problems behind various issues like critical thinking, reflective learning, open learning and the transition from high school to college and the relationship/impact of technology on all of them.

Download Episode 5 (mp3: 55.00 min)

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Podcast Notes:

The Transliteracy Debate

Carleen's ACRL Google Doc Collaborative notes:

• Integrating Library, Instructional Technology, and Distance Learning
• Information Deconstruction: Perspectives on Critical Information Literacy
• Building Relationships through Embedded Librarianship
• Paper Sessions

Dana's CiL conference notes

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Episode 4: LILAC in Winter (our 1st guests!)

In this episode we welcome our very first esteemed guests, Michelle Costello and Kim Davies Hoffman, from SUNY Geneseo. We talk about instruction librarian professional development and their ACRL award winning Library Instruction Leadership Academy (LILAC) and other projects they have worked on.

Download Episode 4 (mp3: 60.02 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Library Instruction Leadership Academy (LILAC)
• 2011 ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Innovation Award announcement
• The 3 T's: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology and Transliteracy Conference
• Kim and Michelle's ACRL 2011 National Conference presentation description
• Geneseo Psyc 251 Online Tutorial
• Dana's Take on "Transliteracy"

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Episode 3: Adaptability and Delicious Sunsets

In this 3rd attempt at Episode 3 (yes, I managed to mess up the recording twice!), we discuss issues of online tools that go away, such as the now old news of Delicious and Google Wave. Issues of evaluating and adopting technology tools, adapting to the fast rates of change, backing up cloud-stored data, and some upcoming conferences are touched on.

Download Episode 3 (mp3: 48.18 min)

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Podcast Notes:

• Delicious Going Away News [TechCrunch]
• Flickr rumors [NY Times]
• Google Wave is Dead [ReadWriteWeb]

• Memento App for Android
• Backupify

• Diigo Social Bookmark tool
• Librarians and Failure
• Librarians and the Echo Chamber

•  SLOAN-C Conference
• Computers in Libraries 2011
• ACRL Annual Conference
• SUNYLA Annual Conference
• 3 T's Conference: Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology and Transliteracy

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