welcome to user education
INLS 502
rachael clemens
what does user education mean to you?
what qualities, knowledge and/or skills characterize
an amazing instruction librarian? (be creative)
what sorts of contexts/venues can you envision that
would benefit from user education?
[groups of 3 – write on whiteboards]
Proactive
Outgoing
Change oriented
Instruction & assessment
Collaborate with faculty
Online course support
Assessment for improvement
Emerging technology
Position Duties
Reporting to the Arrangement and Description Coordinator in MARBL, the Manuscript Archivist has overall
responsibility for accessioning, arranging, describing, cataloging, and providing access to manuscript collections.
The ideal candidate will make use of cutting edge tools to develop finding aids and promote access to the
collections for faculty and students at Emory and researchers and scholars around the world.
Specific duties of the incumbent include:
Participates in the acquisition and appraisal of manuscript material, including communicating with donors,
packing materials for transfer, and accessioning manuscript material when upon arrival in MARBL.
Arranges manuscript collections in accordance with current library and archival standards, including creating
and implementing work plans, leading a processing team of graduate students, appraising material, and
performing basic preservation work.
Creates descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata in accordance with nationally-accepted standards
such as EAD (XML), Dublin Core, and MARC. Contributes authority records to NACO, and produces other
descriptive tools such as finding aids and local indexes.
Hires, trains, supervises, and evaluates MARBL graduate students who arrange and describe manuscript
collections.
Provides assistance in special collections research services as needed and assigned, including weekly and
Saturday reference desk shifts.
Contributes to annual division planning, submits written reports, and participates in other operational functions
as required.
Initiates, write, and manage grant projects.
Participates in outreach activities such as exhibit planning, curation and design, exhibit tours, meetings with
donors, instruction sessions, and writing articles and blog postings.
Collaborates with the conservation unit, the digital programs division, and the digital curation center to ensure
the long-term preservation of manuscript materials in all formats.
Represents the library on professional and scholarly association committees, task forces, work groups, and other
entities at the local, state, regional, national, and international level as appropriate to position and area of
expertise and on campus as needed.
Participates in appropriate professional and scholarly associations and organizations including maintaining
membership and/or accreditation; attending meetings, conferences, workshops; and serving in appointed or
elected positions.
Presents on work-related topics and research at professional and scholarly conferences, symposia, and
workshops. Publishes on work-related topics and research in professional and scholarly publications.
Maintains up-to-date professional knowledge and skills in areas related to primary job assignment as well as
maintaining general knowledge of current trends in special collections and archives.
Learner’s library for 20th cent
‘Wartburg Plan of Essential Education’
Info literacy embedded in curriculum
Focus on students
Collaborate with faculty
Collaborate with librarians
Programming: design + assess
Create opportunities
Outreach and promotion
Collaborate with teachers and
community
overview of course [syllabus + schedule]
Sakai
caveat: I’m still tweaking the schedule but will have
print copy on Thursday
core concepts in course:
information literacy
ACRL information competencies and other standards
learning theories
conceptual frameworks that describe how information is absorbed,
processed, and retained during learning
Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism
learning styles
learning style inventory/schema – how do we incorporate this research into
library instruction?
evaluation and assessment
what do we mean by assessing learning?
methods, techniques, teaching & assessing simultaneously
instructional design / creating a lesson plan
learning outcomes, strategies, assessment
evidence based practice
what else would you like to see?
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learning from and with each other – get to know everyone
in our class (don’t have to be BFF). Bring recent instructionrelated experiences to class to share
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supportive classroom environment – place for us to try new
things, take risks and make mistakes, engage in constructive
feedback
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projects and assignments are for your benefit – you will find
some intentional ambiguity. View this as an opportunity to
be creative and make the project work for your
development
my intent is to create a classroom community infused with high
challenge, low threat, and high support…so let’s start getting to
know each other
1. find a partner wearing very similar shoes to yours (or is also
barefoot)
2. sit in classroom or take a 5-minute walk around the halls,
introduce yourself and take turns talking about G-L-P
“G” stands for something you are grateful for
“L” stands for something you learned over the summer
“P” stands for a promise you are going to make to yourself