Peer Review Resources

Have you considered peer review as a means to improve instruction? This method is already being used by 40% of the colleges and universities in the United States. The University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning has a great page of resources on the subject that could be used to develop a peer review standards initiative at your library. Scott Walter (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has compiled a great list of conference papers and models for instructional improvement in academic libraries that include peer review discussions.

Reference & Instruction Exchange Group Meeting

The NCCCLRA Reference & Instruction Exchange Group will meet Friday, December 14 at the Davidson Campus of Davidson County Community College, (driving directions) from 10 to 12. This will be an informal meeting to discuss reference issues. We won't have a guest speaker, and there will only be a couple of topics on the agenda. If there are particular topics you are interested in, please let Pat Leamon (leamonp@alamancecc.edu) know as soon as possible. Lunch will be provided after the meeting.

Please RSVP to Pat by December 7th; more event details forthcoming.