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In addition to traditional and non-traditional teaching, my role as collections management librarian and archivist play a large role in teaching and learning. The main goal of the library collection is to support just that. We maintain our existing databases and electronic resources and source new tools to ensure that the City Tech community has the means to meet general education goals and beyond.
Acquiring faculty requested resources – like Fashion & Race database- and working in conjunction with the wider technical services team to ensure that access remains available are part of the educational foundation the library provides for faculty and students. Ordering and processing print and electronic monographs – which can be requested by anyone in the campus community – working with library subject specialists and departmental library liaisons help to fill the stacks with reserve, regular and special collection items that support coursework and personal enrichment.
The university archive holds a world-class, one-of-a-kind science fiction collection which supports an annual symposium and departmental courses focused on science fiction. It also houses the history of City Tech and its previous iterations and stores the current minutes, publications, advertisements and artifacts that will be referenced by our alumni, and beyond, in the future.
In a traditional teaching and learning setting, I utilized the familiar tools – quizzes, short response submissions, discussion boards, research assignments, midterms and finals. These were put to effective use in an online, asynchronous course were we relied on this combination of teaching tools to replace the in-person discussion found in an on-campus classroom setting. Requiring students to comment on each other’s work, and to engage directly with me via recorded lecture content other kinds of graded submissions, created a breadth of material to use in assessing whether we were meeting the stated aims of the course as well as general education outcomes.
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