IRDL advisory board spotlight: Ione Damasco
After graduating with a B.A. in English from Ohio State University and holding down various jobs (selling shoes, customer service rep for a small software company, supervisor at a large bookstore...
View ArticleThe article that started it all
This is a blog re-post from my personal blog, Organization Monkey. I thought you might like to read about the research that pushed us to develop the IRDL. The following is taken from...
View ArticleWe read ALL of them
There are eight people dedicated to crafting the first cohort of IRDL Scholars. We will be making final decisions very soon and hope to make the selection announcements next week. We have been so...
View ArticleThe 2014 IRDL Scholars
Frans Albarillo is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Brooklyn College Library, and the subject specialist for Business, Sociology, and Linguistics. Frans holds and MLS in Library Science and an...
View ArticleTweets from the 2014 IRDL
We’d love for you to follow along with us as we experience the first cohort of IRDL. To read the twitter stream about the Institute itself, take a look at https://storify.com/irdl/irdl-2014. The...
View ArticleDid you know? IRDL is offered at no cost to the participants
The learning experience, travel to and from Los Angeles, CA, accommodations, and food will be supplied to Scholars free of charge. This is due to the structure of the grant we have received from the...
View ArticleAdvisory Board spotlight: Scott Walter
We are pleased to welcome our newest Advisory Board member, Scott Walter. Scott is the University Librarian at DePaul University and an adjunct member of the faculty of DePaul’s School of Public...
View ArticleSAGE Publications, a 2015 IRDL sponsor
Thanks to SAGE Publications, each of the 2015 IRDL Scholars will have personal copies of the following four books: Bernard, H.R. 2013. Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches,...
View ArticleApplication submission deadline extended: February 14, 2015.
ALA snow storm, Superbowl weekend, there’s just too much going on to get your IRDL application submitted today. We understand. We’re extending the submission deadline to 10PM on February 14, 2015. Rest...
View ArticleThe 2015 IRDL Scholars
Melissa Burel is the Catalog Librarian at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Her research interests include assessment, evidence-based decision making, innovative cataloging...
View ArticleSAGE Publications, a 2016 IRDL sponsor
Thanks to SAGE Publications, each of the 2016 IRDL Scholars will have personal copies of the following four books: Bernard, H.R. 2013. Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches,...
View ArticleMap of IRDL Scholars
Here’s a map of the home institutions of the IRDL Scholars from the 2014 and 2015 cohorts.
View ArticleIRDL instructor spotlight: Emily Namey
Emily Namey is an applied anthropologist whose research career began in the corporate arena, with internships at Nike and Intel, before she focused on public health and medical anthropology while...
View ArticleThe 2016 IRDL Scholars
Melissa Bauer is the Online Learning Librarian at Kent State University at Stark in North Canton, Ohio, where she works with faculty and students on supporting information literacy and online...
View ArticleIRDL Scholars Respond to Orlando
There’s much to say about the shooting in Orlando. I’m the G in LGBT. I’m a librarian. I’m also honored to be part of the 2016 IRDL cohort. For this tragedy to happen at this precise moment gave me...
View ArticleIRDL Scholars Respond to Orlando, Part 2
“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’”...
View ArticleIRDL Scholars Respond to Orlando, Part 3
When we say your names, it will be loud and clear as a bell. There will be no wavering in our voices, for they will be steady and distinct. We do so in your honor and memory. We will grieve because...
View ArticleIRDL Scholars Respond to Orlando, Part 4
I woke up to a barrage of Tweets about Orlando. It took me a few seconds to figure out why. Once I did, my first thought was, “Oh no. Not again.” Every mass shooting takes me right back to December...
View ArticleLMU receives IMLS grant to continue IRDL
We are pleased to have been awarded a 2016 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Continuing Education grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (the award announcement is at this URL:...
View ArticleSAGE highlights the experiences of the 2016 IRDL Scholars
In a recent blog post at the SAGE Publishing’s Connection website they have highlighted the experiences of 10 of the 2016 IRDL Scholars, to identify what their big takeaways have been so far. Read the...
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