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Wyoming Library Association: 2.0 Toolkit for Libraries Large and Small

Laura Crossett, Park County Library System
Kaijsa Calkins, University of Wyoming Libaries

Blogs
Law Library Letter
Meeteetse School Library blog
Riverton Library blog
UW Libraries blog

Wikis
Coe Reference wiki
PCLS wiki

RSS
New York Times
Wyoming State Library news
WYLD databases






Flickr
Coe Library
Library of Congress
Park County Library System

Instant Messaging
UW Libraries

Social Networking
Coe Library on Facebook
Wyoming Library Association on Facebook
Albany County Public Library on MySpace
Central Wyoming College on MySpace

Find our handout, links, and more on the presentation webpage!

Libraries' Seminar series

An enterprising member of our faculty started a seminar series so libraries faculty have a regularly scheduled venue to share our research with one another. Previous presentations have focused on digital initiatives, consumer health resources, and visual literacy. My turn is next week, when I'll be talking about an embedded librarian project I tried out last semester. It will be a bit of a dry run for my LOEX of the West program in June, and I'm hoping to get some helpful feedback from my colleagues here.

I've heard of embedding into courses for several years now, but it really seems to be catching on lately. A couple of months back, I read an article by Russell A. Hall in C&RL News that really echoed my own experiences. The time commitment was huge, and while the benefit to students was obvious and positive, this benefit is difficult to measure. A project like this really takes systematic planning and assessable outcomes.

It's a little scary to present about a project that was only partially successful. I'm sure my audience at the conference will include some librarians who know how to do it better than I did. My big hope is that the program will generate a lot of discussion and we can all learn from one another.

rising from the ashes

It's time to resurrect this blog. I had grand plans to post about what I was doing and reading about IL and then I got busy doing all that stuff and it didn't seem fun to write about what occupies the bulk of my time and thoughts. But I have lots of interesting projects in the works and several presentations coming up that are relevant here, so I'm going to make a better effort at keeping this space up-to-date.