Your Craft As a Teaching Librarian, 9780838939178
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Unleash your inner performer: Elevate library instruction with acting skills.
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Your Craft As a Teaching Librarian

using acting skills to create a dynamic presence

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  • Paperback

    130 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2022

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Summary

Stage Presence for Librarians: Act Your Way to Engaging Instruction

Library instruction is like acting: There’s a live audience, in person or online; you may be doing a one-shot, limited engagement, or play to the same crowd repeatedly over the course of a term; and you usually expect reviews. Most important, instruction is like acting in that you’re playing a role, and it’s crucial to prepare your performance before you go on in order to shine and connect authentically with student…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780838939178
ISBN-10:0838939171
Author:Jeff Sundquist, Julie Artman, Douglas R. Dechow
Publisher:Association of College & Research Libraries
Imprint:Association of College & Research Libraries
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:130
Edition:2nd
Release Date:30 June 2022
Weight:101g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 8mm
About The Author

Jeff Sundquist

Jeff Sundquist is the Dean of the Library, Learning Resources, and Online Education at Monterey Peninsula College. He has an MA and MLIS from UCLA and has been performing in the interconnecting spaces of the theater and libraries for an indeterminable amount of time. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark, where he worked as librarian for theater, dance, and sports at Statsbiblioteket.

Julie Artman, MFA, MLIS, has worked as a theatre director, producer, acting coach, and actor in New York City, Los Angeles, and regionally. Julie is a librarian at Chapman University and teaches mindfulness. Julie is certified by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and certified as a mindfulness facilitator by UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Douglas R. Dechow is the Digital Humanities and Science librarian at Chapman University. Doug is co-editor of Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson and co-author of Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand.

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