Against the one-shot; Interdisciplinarity; Digital Library Pedagogy

An assortment of items. Firstly a lengthy and thoughtful blog post about the need to demand collegiality and, as a manager, to push back against the one-shot:
- Seeber, K. (2019, December 16). Colleagues. https://kevinseeber.com/blog/colleagues/

Secondly an item that is sadly expensive (on the Springer website), but sounds interesting:
- Leonard A.E. (2019). Information Literacy in Place-Based Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. In R. Lansiquot & S. MacDonald. (Eds.). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning. Cham: Palgrave Pivot. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32471-1_4 "This chapter explores the role of information literacy in virtual or hybrid place-based interdisciplinary courses. Whether teaching as a guest lecturer or as a co-instructor, I infuse information literacy competencies into assignments, relying on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Four of the six frames of the Framework map especially well to interdisciplinary teaching and learning: information has value, authority is contested and contextual, research as inquiry, and searching as strategic exploration. Through searching in special collections and archives and integrating digitized primary sources into research projects students engage in a virtual exploration of place, becoming familiar with it through digitized primary sources. At the same time, the interdisciplinary approach helps students gain a critical perspective on information production and preservation."

Finally, there has been a call to volunteer as part of the Digital Library Pedagogy team: which "is a grassroots community of practice ... We empower digital library practitioners to see themselves as teachers and equip teaching librarians to engage learners in how digital library technologies shape our knowledge infrastructure". There is more information on the initiative here: https://www.diglib.org/groups/digital-library-pedagogy/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Wreaths of Kelham Island 1, December 2019