Meredith Farkas's guest appearances

Meredith Farkas

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Library Leadership Podcast

Catherine Pellegrino

Char Booth

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Have you ever wondered if there was a way you could slow down in your professional life while engaging in more meaningful work? On this show Meredith Farkas, Faculty Librarian at Portland Community College, shares how we can do this using slow librarianship - a concept with the characteristics of being good, humane, and thoughtful. It's not about creating mediocrity. It's about engaging in our best and most meaningful work.

Have you ever wondered if there was a way you could slow down in your professional life while engaging in more meaningful work? On this show Meredith Farkas, Faculty Librarian at Portland Community College, shares how we can do this using slow librarianship - a concept with the characteristics of being good, humane, and thoughtful. It's not about creating mediocrity. It's about engaging in our best and most meaningful work.

110. Slow Librarianship with Meredith Farkas

Listen to the podcast (mp3, ~56 minutes) Jason and Anna are joined by Meredith Farkas to discuss her recent American Libraries' "Technology in Practice" column, The Guide on the Side. Discussion includes the evolution of interactive learning objects, as well as the development and placement of learning objects to achieve learning outcomes and to maximize usage.  Meredith is head of instructional services at Portland State University in Oregon. She is also part-time faculty at San José State University School of Library and Information Science. She blogs at Information Wants to Be Free and created Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Show Notes:  Meredith's most recent "Technology in Practice" column, The Guide on the Side UA’s JSTOR Tutorial, using The Guide on the Side software cakephp → http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CakePHP   Join us for future episodes! If you’re interested, please post a comment below on the Adventures in Library Instruction blog or send us an email! We’d love to have you be a part of our Skype discussion or participate in a one-on-one interview. OR you can record your own a segment of something fabulous you’re doing with library instruction techniques, technology, or methods!

<a href="http://archive.org/download/AdventuresInLibraryLibraryInstructionEpisode35April2012/ALIep35.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the podcast</a> (<a href="http://archive.org/download/AdventuresInLibraryLibraryInstructionEpisode35April2012/ALIep35.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mp3</a>, ~56 minutes) Jason and Anna are joined by Meredith Farkas to discuss her recent American Libraries' "Technology in Practice" column, <a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/practice/guide-side" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Guide on the Side</a>. Discussion includes the evolution of interactive learning objects, as well as the development and placement of learning objects to achieve learning outcomes and to maximize usage. Meredith is head of instructional services at Portland State University in Oregon. She is also part-time faculty at San José State University School of Library and Information Science. She blogs at <a href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Information Wants to Be Free</a> and created <a href="http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Library_Success:_A_Best_Practices_Wiki" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki</a>. Show Notes: <ul> <li>Meredith's most recent "Technology in Practice" column, <a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/practice/guide-side" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Guide on the Side</a></li> <li>UA’s <a href="http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/searching-jstor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JSTOR Tutorial</a>, using The Guide on the Side software</li> <li>cakephp → <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CakePHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CakePHP</a></li> </ul> Join us for future episodes! If you’re interested, please post a comment below on the Adventures in Library Instruction blog or <a href="mailto:adlibinstruction@gmail.com">send us an email</a>! We’d love to have you be a part of our Skype discussion or participate in a one-on-one interview. OR you can record your own a segment of something fabulous you’re doing with library instruction techniques, technology, or methods!