2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's iSchool with over 6 years of full-time experience working as both a reference and instruction librarian and an archivist in two different academic libraries.
This resource builds on a few years of developing an outline for a Framework-informed approach to teaching library research for college-level students in Beginning Ballet. The iterations of this lesson have seen the incorporation of the Appreciative Inquiry model, the use of Backward Design and most recently content signposts from the Wexner Foundation's "Backward Design Toolkit." The latter has informed definitions of enduring ideas and what it means to inquire in a way that supports thinking…
Set in a broader internship program as a key component of an archival program and following a backwards design approach, interns (undergraduate students) develop complimentary archival exhibits in both physical and digital environments. Students are also tasked with anticipating their information needs. The supervisor draws on the Scholarship as Conversation Frame of the ACRL Framework to encourage conceptualizing both the archives/special collections/library environment they are in as a place…