Review: How Art Can Change Your Life

Review of How Art Can Change Your Life by Susie Hodge. Thames & Hudson Inc, September 2022. 192 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02493-5 (pbk.), $19.95. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/how-art-can-change-your-life-softcover. Reviewed September 2022 by Jill Chisnell, Art & Design Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University, [email protected]

Date Due: the Library Zine

Date Due is a self-published zine created for CMU School of Design faculty and instructors. Issue 1 was created by Jill Chisnell, Integrated Media & Design Librarian, to welcome the fall 2019 semester and promote University Libraries services, collections, and events. Publication date: 09/12/2019.color; 8-pages + centerfold "Research Relief" mini-poster insert; 4.25"x5.5"</div

BROWSE (a finding aid zine)

BROWSE is a finding aid zine created by Jill Chisnell, Integrated Media & Design Librarian, to support a library instruction session and tour for the spring 2020 course 51-228 Communications Studio II: Designing Communications for Interactions. Publication date: 01/23/2020.color; 8-pages + cover; 2"x2"</div

A Library Curiosity Guide (a finding aid zine)

A finding aid zine created by Jill Chisnell, Integrated Media & Design Librarian, to support Textile Talk assignment for fall 2020 course 62-150A: Introduction to Textile Media. Publication date: 09/30/2019.color; 8-pages; 2.75"x4.25"</div

Got a date with a database: Using lonely hearts ads and speed dating to introduce students to library resources

Short article on conducting the library instruction activity, Speed Databasing, in Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section Semi-Annual Newsletter (Spring 2020).</div

Speed Databasing: A Matchmaking Activity for Students and Library Databases

The interactive workshop, "Speed Databasing: A Matchmaking Activity for Students and Library Databases," was presented at LOEX 2017 in Lexington, KY by Jill Chisnell of Carnegie Mellon University and Teresa MacGregor of Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar.This presentation provides background and best practices for the active learning exercise, Speed Databasing, created to introduce students to many research databases during one library instruction session.</div

Librarian Matchmakers: Using Speed Dating™ to Introduce Students to Library Databases

<div><i>The interactive workshop, "Librarian Matchmakers: Using Speed Dating™ to Introduce Students to Library Databases," was presented at LILAC 2018 in Liverpool, UK by Jill Chisnell of Carnegie Mellon University and Teresa MacGregor of Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar.</i></div><div><br></div>A cross between online dating apps and speed dating events, Speed Databasing gives students a chance to “meet” multiple databases during one class session. Librarians act as matchmakers by creating clever personal-ad style profiles for each database, and by reminding students that connecting with a database requires going beyond “first impressions” (i.e. the basic search page). Whether students find the “perfect match” for a current assignment or their “soulmate” in a database they will use throughout their academic career, Speed Databasing is an engaging and energizing approach to library resource instruction