SWON Libraries

Communication Tool

• Set up a Google Sites Wiki - Share ideas with other librarians who can't attend meetings
• If interest send an email to Lauren Wahman.

Discussion

• Students don't know what databases are anymore as freshman in college
• Instructors/professors are being required at some institutes to attend library instruction classes
• Shared activities and games that are used in the classroom
  • Penn State - Information Cycle - Use this with students during instruction. Pick a big news event that students will remember.  Visit the website to learn more. URL: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocycle/infocycle.html
  • The Indiana Wesleyan University Toolbox - Get some really good ideas. It is free and comes out a couple times of years. URL: http://www.indwes.edu/TheToolBox
  • Book: The Library Instruction Cookbook by Ryan L. Sittler  ISBN: 978-0838985113
  • If students don't know their research topic yet, provide some fun/goofy topics as examples.
  • Break the ice ideas for instructing students