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CONNECT @ Valley

Michael — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:42:59 +0000

In my position as the evening reference coordinator at the Oregon State University Valley Library I had a leadership role in the development of new student orientation activities during new student week. In Fall 2007 a number of activities were created to introduce the students to the library and use of its services. The attached presentation was created for a presentation at the Oregon Library Association / Washington Library Association 2008 conference in Vancouver, WA. This presentation breaks down the activities and explains the planning and functional processes for attendees to gain a better grasp of academic outreach programming at OSU. This artifact demonstrates the teaching outcome in that it is an example of my teaching others to how to use a set of tools to accomplish programmatic goals. Their outcome was a greater exposure and facility to these tools.

CONNECT @ Valley Presentation (warning this is a large file, ~26 MB)

Teaching Information Literacy

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:24:55 +0000

Online Information Retrieval (LI812) contained a series of assignments recreating information search strategies using online resources. This specific example demonstrates searching for information as well as reasons to use either the library catalog or databases. This speaks to the evaluative and search processes in information literacy. Coupled with this, I have included a presentation from Information Transfer Among Young Adults (LI832) to demonstrate my ability to present and teach. This was a co-presentation with Julie Bramman which I really enjoyed, on one of my favorite topics, the presentation discussed the role of technology in teaching and education with the young adult population.

Information Searching

Young Adult Technology Presentation

Information Transfer Process

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:42:46 +0000

I was really pleased to find this artifact, it is the first example where I disagreed with a model and instead proposed my own or a modification. The artifact is a paper for LI802 (Theoretical Foundations of Service) which includes an interview of a subject with an information need and an analysis of the interview data. Through this paper I gained a much higher understanding of the information seeking process which in turn improved my service to information seekers.

Information Transfer Process

Music Collection Development Proposal

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:38:14 +0000

This artifact demonstrates the creation of a customized collection to meet the informational needs of a very specific audience; undergraduate music majors at a small private liberal arts university. My undergraduate background is in music so I particularly enjoyed putting together this proposal and music reference resources.

Collection Development Proposal

Project Plan

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:12:03 +0000

This project plan, developed for LI863 (Project Management) is an example of a collaborative effort to redesign an institutional process. This plan proposes organizational change through a series of careful communication, collaboration, and organization. As a collaborative project, two others were part of the team that produced this artifact: Bradley Fenwick and Wendy Gish.

Training Manual Project Plan

Why Study Organization Theory

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:06:06 +0000

Organizational behavior is a cornerstone of any agency, even libraries. The paper I chose from LI805 (Organization Theories for Administering Information Agencies) to represent the outcome of applying interdisciplinary theories to information agencies discusses the importance and transparency that organizational behavior serves to libraries. Organizations have too many variables to efficiently track them all, organizational theory gives some framework of analysis to gain perspective into a library organization.

Why Study Organization Theory

National Park Service

Michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:23:34 +0000

This artifact based on the National Park Service demonstrates the repackaging of information across various sources into a single resource to fund and promote local projects with the help of the National Park Service. As part of the Government Information class (LI838) I discovered that the National Park Service offers a wide variety of resources for local projects, but the information is spread across their large department website and not often connected. This seemed a great class project opportunity that could potentially be useful to others, outside of class.

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Communication Styles in Virtual Reference

Michael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:38:24 +0000

In the research class (LI810 – Research and Inquiry in Library and Information Science) I began to realize the importance and impact of research in libraries. I learned how to identify specific problems and articulate ways to learn more about them to create positive solutions. The artifacts indicated below constitute my first research proposal and my presentation on this proposal to determine the importance of communication style in the virtual mode of reference.

Research Proposal

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The Giver – A Multimedia Booktalk

Michael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:53 +0000

This artifact demonstrates my ability to clearly communicate while using new technology to most completely meet an information need. That need is delivering a booktalk to a group of teens. This project was created during LI832 (Information Transfer Among Young Adults) to take an alternate spin on a traditional booktalk. The booktalk has been relatively unchanged over the past several years: a librarian giving an oral presentation about a book in front of an audience. In an effort to engage the younger and more media-savvy set I decided to go digital and engage the audience with images and evocative quotations.

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