Had a nice chat with some friends at Bethany College (the one in West Virginia) this morning. We talked about marketing reference and info lit, ref desk or no ref desk, motivating student employees, and teaching. Even though we're in different parts of the country and at institutions of different sizes, we face similar challenges, like:
How do we attract the faculty to incorporate info lit into their courses? That's a hard one, but librarians at Santa Clara University have put together a useful page about ILI for use in a faculty workshop.
How exactly do we work active learning and constructivist learning theories into our one-shots? Read this article for great ideas.
Reference traffic has slowed down. What do we do - how do we use our time wisely and reach out to library users? Here are some ideas.
We also discussed the impact and frustrations of relationship building. Getting to know your faculty is probably still the best way to get info lit into individual courses and the curriculum in general, but it takes a long time. The pay off is usually worth it though.
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