In case you missed this on AWOL
This is - as usual - courtesy of Chuck Jones!
June S
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Posted: 30 Aug 2013 09:12 AM PDT
Information Fluency Workshop: Center for Hellenic Studies
By Phoebe Acheson in Becoming a Classics Librarian
In July I had the privilege of spending 10 days teaching a workshop on
information fluency in classical studies at the Center for Hellenic
Studies in Washington DC. It was an incredible luxury to explore a
topic in such depth, when in the past I have had at most an hour and a
half to reach a group of students! I am very grateful to Kenny
Morrell, who invited me to teach this class; Lanah Koelle, our program
coordinator/librarian who contributed her expertise at every stage;
Allie Marby, CHS’s summer interns, and librarians Temple Wright and
Erika Bainbridge, who attended sessions and supported us at CHS,
especially in the library; and most especially the workshop students,
who gracefully accepted their role as guinea pigs and taught me a
great deal. The students were a mixture on American undergraduates
and Greek professionals in education and information fields; each
brought an inquisitive spirit and their collective hard work and
openness to sharing and new ideas was a major factor in the success of
the workshop. Thank you!
As a group we assembled some resources that others who are interested
in this topic may find useful. The first is a Zotero group library
with folders that list the session topics. Each folder’s contents
include citations for assigned readings for the session (usually
fairly short, web-based readings) and citations for information
resources we discussed during the session.
The students were asked to complete two assignments.
The first, the development of an annotated bibliography, is available
as a Google document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXaPqTDdOUIzI6E26SZiOFjb7a7BMzczWOfh8qX….
The second, a WordPress Research Guide, is also described in a Google document
(
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O3Rm8yXGlhIRPJh3PrDiMgiAgH0LiHhC44mSvq_…)
and the guide itself is available via the CHS’s website. The guide
should be viewed as a work in progress; we began a project that we
hope to flesh out with the participants of future workshops in years
to come.
Librarians and scholars interested in libraries and archives in Greece
will be delighted by Maria Konstantopoulou’s entry on this topic;
Latin teachers can find many fun texts to use with beginning students
in George Trapalis’ entry; Matina Goga has assembled a list of
valuable links for the study of Greek society and culture; Brittany
Profitt has done the same for Roman society and culture; teachers of
Greek might want to think about using Tyler Verity’s entry on
precisely defining words for a classroom exercise;Ashton Murphy’s
entry on reading for research addresses study skills faculty may
assume undergraduates possess when they arrive at college; and Vanessa
Felso’s entry on latin dictionary resources is a model of clarity,
useful for any undergraduate. Use them, and share them!
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June Samaras
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