Dog-eared & Overdue

Author: Kate Gukeisen

  • One Size Does Not Fit All

    This post is an edited, enhanced, and otherwise reworked version of an internal class blog post from a class called Motivating 21st Century Learners at Syracuse University. I am posting a series of these because the topics are close to my heart, they illustrate part of my library school journey, and I believe will get…

  • Roadmap for New Beginnings

    This post is an edited, enhanced, and otherwise reworked version of an internal class blog post from a class called Motivating 21st Century Learners at Syracuse University. I am posting a series of these because the topics are close to my heart, they illustrate part of my library school journey, and I believe will get…

  • Tell Me a Chocolate Story

    I had the pleasure last weekend of participating in a story time for military families on Fort Drum. Tell Me a Story is a program hosted by the Military Child Education Coalition and is intended to promote literacy and, according to the MCEC website, to “empower Military Children by using literature and their own stories in…

  • The Lego Lady

    I am greeted as the “Lego Lady” when I enter my library and I couldn’t be happier about it. I’m not the first library Lego Lady, and I won’t be the last, but I’m glad I am one for the moment. A few weeks ago, I met with the library director and she mentioned that she…

  • Shifting the Balance

    It seems silly not to mention the fact that my last post here was eleven months ago. The last year has found me, and my household, adjusting to stay balanced to the many changes that have come our way in the last eleven months. Our Vagabond family moved from Virginia back to Northern New York…

  • The Nexus of Library School, Motherhood, and Military Life

    So there we were…with the majority of our Reference Services and Information Literacy class behind us, and with two major projects ahead, one of them a Library Pathfinder. A pathfinder is essentially a topic guide that contains carefully chosen resources that provide a launching point for research. While I looked forward to the assignment itself,…

  • Lesson 7-New Librarians Cry When Confronted with Meaningful Artifacts

    The crying started with a visit to the university library. It was the middle of our residency week, and we had spent the previous few days discussing the importance of keeping our focus as librarians on community, innovation, collaboration, and creation. I had embraced the concepts of roving and embedded librarians, empowering people through their very…

  • (Finally) Catching Up on the Lessons Learned List–Number 10

    Our Title, My Friend, Was Blowin’ In the Wind One of the great pleasures of my summer 2011 gateway week in Syracuse was working with so many equally invested, passionate, and fun fellow students. Of the many group projects we did, our grand finale took the form of presenting at a poster session. I was…

  • Lesson 2-Mints Invigorate Students

    Effective instructors are in tune with their students and able to shift gears with them. And they know when to pass out the mints.   

  • Library Dogs Aren’t Just for Public Libraries

    My post about Ace the Library Dog led to some great questions and to a few friends sharing their experiences with similar programs. I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some a few interesting links regarding library dog programs. After exhaustive research (okay, after typing “library dog” into google), I struck gold in the…