Seminar B. A Balancing Act: Collaborative Instruction in the 21st-Century Special Collection

Abstract

This seminar will bring together speakers whose experience in instruction and collaboration takes on a variety of aspects. One will speak on the planning of subject-specific individual sessions with a concentration on the creation of instructional documentation as a means to cope with the growth in teaching requests and facilitate internal collaboration among librarians with instructional duties. Another will speak on her experience of developing and team-teaching a semester-long class, and the issues of how to balance this commitment with her daily library-based responsibilities. The panel will also include a speaker who is not embedded within an academic institution, and whose methods of collaboration in terms of instructional pedagogies and audience can be radically different.