#selfiesinthestacks: Sharing the Library with Instagram

Abstract

This article discusses a student-guided Instagram program for firstyear English composition classes at the University of Montevallo during Fall 2013. The activity engaged aspects of critical pedagogy by placing value on students' prior experiences as creators and users of information and encouraging a classroom environment guided by student input. Since the program was meant for students in their first semester, it was also designed to be fun and social. The Instagram program helped students encounter the unfamiliar academic library environment through the familiar medium of social media, alleviating library anxiety as they produced online content representing their experience.

Instagram photography and the geography field course: snapshots from Berlin

“…Outside of the discipline of geography, scholars have identified aspects of using Instagram that contribute to a critical pedagogical mode of teaching. For example, as Wallis (2014) suggests, the invitation for students to be productive using Instagram as part of a learning and teaching session, rather than just consuming received wisdoms, particularly helps to facilitate a more dynamic and creative way of 'doing geography' (Mullens et al 2012). As well as enabling such participatory practices, using Instagram can also provide, as Al-Bahrani and Patel (2015, 63) highlight, an 'intimate setting' for communicating ideas during undergraduate teaching.…”

Fear at First Sight: Library Anxiety, Race, and Nova Scotia

“…Library anxious students also avoided asking for help from reference librarians in person or via online applications (p.315-16). Wallis (2014) and Lichtenstein (1999) demonstrated that creating positive interactions between students and library staff helped ease fears and increased students' academic research skills throughout their degrees.…”

Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Tumblin’ through the visual web

“…A brief, and by no means complete, review of the literature on the topic of libraries and the Visual Web gives evidence of the use of Instagram (Abbott et al, 2013;Bell, 2013;Hild, 2014;Salomon, 2013;Wallis, 2014), Pinterest (Baggett and Gibbs, 2014;Gilman and Vincent, 2013;Gregory, 2013;Hansen et al, 2012;McDermott, 2012;Thornton, 2012;Wilkinson, 2013) and Tumblr (Anderson, 2015;Cohen, 2007;Duffy, 2013;Keyser, 2013;Matteson, 2011;Welch, 2014). The literature indicates a trend toward the use of more image-based social media by libraries.…”