Remote Instruction Meets “Building a Multicultural Society”
Lightning Talk | Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | 2:45pm – 4:00pm EST
How do you provide remote instruction while engaging library users AND addressing the pandemic and its emerging racial and social disparities? In this session, find out how a faculty librarian and a professor came together to do just that in the course, “Building a Multicultural Society” SOC-110. Maridelys Detres (Ph.D.), and Amy Harris (Instruction & Assessment Librarian), will explain their goals for this course and this embedded librarian project’s results. Tips on what works and what did not will be given. Attendees will leave with practical ideas that can be replicated in their instruction sessions, classes, and libraries.
Presenters: Amy Harris & Maridelys Detres (Ph.D.)
Amy Harris brings her 20 years of experience to this conference. She has presented information literacy instruction, digital librarianship, and outcomes assessment at multiple conferences including the International Conference on Information Literacy, the Florida Library Association Conference, and the Student Success in Writing Conference. Her book chapter in ACRL’s Envisioning the Frameworks will be published this year.
Maridelys Detres, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor teaching anthropology and public health at Saint Leo University. She has a doctorate in Public Health and a Master’s in Applied Medical Anthropology from the University of South Florida. Dr. Detres has over 25 years of experience in research, data analysis, and evaluation focusing on health disparities and community partnerships.