(via Emily Carlin, Erie Community College)
The ACRL Instruction Section Management & Leadership Committee is excited to announce our spring online professional development series, three online webinars on topics of interest to instruction coordinators and library staff with instruction responsibilities. We hope you can join us for any or all of these free events.
Be Your Own Mentor: Take Control of your Professional Development February 22nd 12-1 p.m. CST
Registration: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/en1v9boniddy/event/registration.html
Event Login Page: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/en1v9boniddy/event/login.html
Description:
Finding a mentor who works well for you can be both challenging and frustrating. Mentor-mentee matching programs are a great idea and work beautifully for some librarians in specific contexts. What happens when you outgrow, mismatch or need specialized or temporal mentoring? How do you understand the scope of your need? How do you get to the “why” behind building this relationship?
In this program, audience members will assess their resources and needs, develop a short list of possible mentors for those needs, identify their personal goals and what they hope to provide a mentor through this relationship. Further, audience members will consider how to build an effective relationship with both accountability and an assessment plan to help both the mentor and mentee understand if goals have been met. Finally, time will be given to ensure audience members consider how best to share the skills and understanding they acquire through this relationship.
Presenters: Mandy Havert is the graduate outreach services librarian with the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame. Her experience as both staff and faculty in more than two decades of professional work and activities has formed her thoughts and directions about mentorships and how to get the most where it’s needed.
Wendy Doucette is an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Research and Instruction Librarian at East Tennessee State University. Formally trained as an Engineering Manager at Lucent Technologies, Wendy teaches reality-based time management and self-marketing.
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Creating the big picture: Improving instruction programming through curriculum mapping April 25, 1-2 CST
URL:
https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee09fdcac50bae18a91ea7eba748347dd
Dial-in option available upon login
Description:
Rapid changes in the higher education landscape have prompted many colleges and universities to make adjustments to their curriculum. Library administrators and librarians can adapt their instructional goals to their institution’s needs through the process of curriculum mapping, which is a systematic visual method to support effective alignment between instructional program outcomes and individual instruction sessions or courses. This webinar will cover the purposes and goals for a curriculum mapping program, how to get started with a curriculum mapping program, how to scale the program once the pilot is complete, and how to move forward once the curriculum mapping has yielded meaningful data. Curriculum mapping visualizations showcase areas for scaling instruction and help in revising current instructional programs. In addition, lessons learned and strategies for mentoring other librarians to actively contribute to curriculum mapping within their liaison areas will also be discussed.
Note: Can’t make it to this event? Want to learn even more about this topic?
The IS Program Planning Committee is offering a curriculum mapping event on May 31st 12:00-1:00 pm. CST. For more information, go to https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?MTID=eca8dbc8ead637c8052f35dde1aa6ee42.
Presenters: Stefanie Metko & Amanda MacDonald
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Collective Learning: Developing an Instruction Community of Practice April 11, 1:00-2:00 p.m. CST
URL:
https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?MTID=e18a56720d38efd0aa1334212f04f677b
Description:
Communities of Practice within academic libraries can provide opportunities for teaching librarians to intentionally develop strategies, confidence, and creativity while building camaraderie and teamwork skills. This online panel discussion will highlight recent efforts to establish communities of practice and recount both the successes and challenges encountered. Participants will learn more about instruction communities of practice and gather ideas that may be taken back to their institutions.
Presenters: Amanda Peters is the Student Engagement Librarian at the University of Michigan Library
Doreen Bradley is the Director of Learning Programs & Initiatives at the University of Michigan Library
Marybeth McCartin is an Instructional Services Librarian at New York University Libraries
Nicole Brown is Head, Instruction Services Division at the University of California, Berkeley