From request to assess: using cloud-based tools for the library instruction lifecycle
Abstract
Purpose
The author first gained experience with library instruction scheduling at a large research university library as an Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) graduate assistant.
Design/methodology/approach
The author would occasionally shadow the faculty librarians as they received instruction requests, which were vetted by an administrative assistant and entered into some mystical technology that would facilitate the reservations and populate a library staff calendar.
Findings
The author remembers it as a fairly mundane process that he did not think much of at the time.
Social implications
The author soon became an instruction librarian who was put in charge of orchestrating the multitudes of course-integrated one-shots at a small, private four-year liberal arts college.
Originality/value
The author thinks back to this experience and marvels at the humble instructional requests (e.g. “just show them JSTOR”) and the primitive tool that their library used for scheduling their sessions: a spreadsheet on our network drive.
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Citation
Parrigin, J. (2017), "From request to assess: using cloud-based tools for the library instruction lifecycle", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 34 No. 6, pp. 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-05-2017-0024
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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