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The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship

الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام. The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship. Jaleh Fazelian, Washington University in St. Louis. Overview. A little background The Course Guide Library activities throughout the semester Assessment Future plans. Building Trust & Relationships. Setting the stage.

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The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship

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  1. الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship Jaleh Fazelian, Washington University in St. Louis

  2. Overview • A little background • The Course Guide • Library activities throughout the semester • Assessment • Future plans

  3. Building Trust & Relationships

  4. Setting the stage We work well together Recently tenured Recently back from sabbatical Looking to do something different

  5. Working together

  6. The Course Guide http://libguides.wustl.edu/arabspring

  7. Primary Sources

  8. One-on-One Meetings

  9. In-class feedback

  10. VJ Um Amel aka LailaSakr

  11. Tahrir is a ghost town now, at the hospital now with our freelance cameraman, he took 4 shots of rubber bullets, his arm badly hurt <ahref="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23jan25" o

  12. Paper feedback

  13. Primary Sources: Part Two

  14. From the mouths of Students • I cannot emphasize enough how helpful the class's webpage was to my research. It exposed me to blogs and news sources I hadn't known about before. • Henry, Arabic Major

  15. From the mouths of Students • Jaleh went above and beyond to find me information for my paper, and as a direct result of her work I was able to go down some research paths that I otherwise wouldn't have known existed! • Lizzy, Islamic Studies Graduate Student

  16. What would we do differently? • Incorporate more primary source materials • BI Session in the classroom, not the library

  17. What’s next? • Continue to meet with/help students from this class on other projects: senior theses, graduate theses • Spring 2014: Embed in Arab-Israeli Crisis Seminar • Expand to other professors • Arabic Literature class • Islam, Music, and Muslim Media Practices

  18. Questions?

  19. Bibliography • College Ecards. http://www.someecards.com/usercards/nsviewcard/MjAxMi1kOGMyYThjNmI2NDFmNjli Accessed Sept. 11, 2013. • Thinking of You Ecards. http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMy1iNTVkOWJiMzZhYTZhZTc4 Accessed Sept. 11, 2013. • Trust / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Accessed Sept. 11, 2013. • Questions / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Accessed Sept. 17, 2013. • Pet desk invasion / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Accessed September 18, 2013. • Dish / CC BY 2.0. Accessed September 18, 2013. • R-ShiefWhite Paper (http://r-shief.org/docs/r-shief-brochure.pdf). Accessed September 18, 2013.

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