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Creating and Sustaining a Teaching Community: Discussing the Instruction Exchange at Northeastern University Library

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dc.audienceUniversity Library
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Molly
dc.contributor.authorHomol, Lindley
dc.contributor.authorPagani, Regina
dc.contributor.departmentNortheastern University
dc.contributor.departmentNortheastern University
dc.contributor.departmentNortheastern University
dc.coverage.temporal2022-06-02T14:00:00-07:00
dc.coverage.temporal2022-06-02T13:00:00-07:00
dc.date2024-04-08T14:18:07.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T08:11:50Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T08:11:50Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-02
dc.description<p>https://doi.org/10.7275/a3jm-7d35</p>
dc.description.abstractIt is all too common for teaching-focused library staff to become siloed, working within their individual disciplines or departments. This approach can lead to feelings of isolation, or each individual library instructor encountering and trying to solve the same obstacles alone. This presentation discusses how three library staff members with significant instruction responsibilities built and maintained an interdepartmental library teaching discussion—an instruction exchange—to encourage community and social knowledge sharing. The presenters describe how this group has grown and evolved over time, from a primarily in-person monthly meeting within a research and instruction department to a virtual cross-departmental community, detailing the planning involved in first establishing the space and then onboarding new members. The presenters also share the monthly prompts, topics, and discussion questions, detailing the variety of meeting formats the instruction exchange has taken over the past two years. Presenters describe the thinking that goes into facilitating this monthly gathering, factoring in staff needs, goals, and morale, and the formal and informal ways they assess how well the exchange is meeting staff needs in these areas. Attendees are given a nuanced example of community building among library colleagues and can take away key considerations, scaffolds, and relationship-centered approaches to embed in the development of any collective sharing space.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/a3jm-7d35
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/734
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&amp;context=acrl_nec_conf&amp;unstamped=1
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectProfessional/staff development Teaching and Learning
dc.subjectlibrary instruction; library teaching programs
dc.subjectLibrary and Information Science
dc.titleCreating and Sustaining a Teaching Community: Discussing the Instruction Exchange at Northeastern University Library
dc.typepresentation
dc.typeevent
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:mo.brown@northeastern.edu|institution:Northeastern University|Brown, Molly
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:l.homol@northeastern.edu|institution:Northeastern University|Homol, Lindley
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:r.pagani@northeastern.edu|institution:Northeastern University|Pagani, Regina
digcom.identifieracrl_nec_conf/2022/presentations/16
digcom.identifier.contextkey29594335
digcom.identifier.submissionpathacrl_nec_conf/2022/presentations/16
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