South Dakota Library People Are Awesome

From the desk of Daria Bossman via my email today:

(As someone who has taken courses from these terrific instructors, I have to say "Whoo hoo!")

 

Congratulations are in order for Julie Erickson and Jane Healy, our two SDSL Electronic Services Coordinators. They recently had an article published in the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. The article focuses on the creative expansion of one of their unique teaching tools which many of you have taken online in recent years, the SDSL Electronic Resources Challenge.

This article will be of greatest interest to other states library agencies’ Development office wishing to creatively extend their instructional reach, but is also applicable to our public, academic and school librarians attempting to reach local teachers, professors, staff, local community leaders who work with students in classrooms every day and have contact with the broader community.  (Hint: The instructional model can be copied!)

Congratulations again to Julie and Jane. Not only are they excellent instructors and adult educators, but creative and forward thinking in the design and delivery of their pedagogy.  We are proud of these gals!  Thank you for representing SDSL/DOE and South Dakota so well!

…And if you have not taken the SDSL Electronic Resources Challenge (and always wanted to really KNOW what was in all those databases piped to your library door) watch the Cornerstone or contact our CE department for the next offering.

Citation:

“Julie Erickson & Jane Healy (2013): Beyond 23 Things: Offering Self-Paced Training to Increase Subscription Electronic Resources Usage, Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25:2, 155-157.

Daria Bossman, State Librarian