An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum, and to support the research of the university faculty and students.
If you’ve been following my blog lately, you may have noticed that I’ve been discussing Chat GPT in my recent posts. This artificial intelligence chatbot is capable of comprehending and responding to prompts from users, though it’s not without its flaws. I personally find it fascinating to experiment with and … Read more
I am now the First-Year Experience Technician at Carleton University Library. Over the past year, I have researched theories and practices for teaching undergraduate students and more specifically first-year students about information literacy. In my research, I uncovered an undergraduate journal article, Dining with Anna Karenina: Opening the Invitation to Burke’s … Read more
Scholarship as conversation, one of the six frameworks for information literacy adopted by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Board in 2016. Since then, these six frames have been the focus of information literacy instruction in academic libraries. At its core, scholarship as conversation attempts to teach students … Read more
To play the full game, download and run the PowerPoint presentation on your PC. Get the file from Dropbox here Why did I create the game the way I did? I created a scavenger hunt game using PowerPoint, which allowed students to search all five floors of Carleton University Library. … Read more
In September I had the opportunity to work with Emma, a colleague of mine at Carleton University MacOdrum Library. Together we wrote a journal article about developing an emerging technology collection in an academic institution. Writing this article was a great experience in peer-reviewed article writing and something I will … Read more
We live in a time where information is vast, accessible and both easy and affordable to produce. To some, libraries are considered outdated and outmatched by the ease of online search engine super giants like Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia. As a recent graduate of the Library and Information Technician Program … Read more
