Monthly Archives: June 2009

Library software training, from the trainees’ perspective

June 22, 2009 – 9:26 am

I posted this to FriendFeed over the weekend, but I wanted to expand a little on it here, because it relates to information literacy instruction: My good friend Vardibidian, who works in a library but is not, generally speaking, a library blogger, has an hysterical post up about attending a “training” “webinar” for his library’s […]

By Catherine | Posted in In the classroom, Instruction, Those dang databases | Comments (2)

What do we do in the summer, anyway?

June 4, 2009 – 12:53 pm

So we’re well into the summer intersession here at MPOW, and faculty often ask me if the librarians work in the summers. The short answer is that we do, as most of us are on 12-month contracts. The building closes at 4:30, so we all get off work a little early, and we don’t staff […]

By Catherine | Posted in SMC Library web redesign, Those dang databases | Comments (6)