The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship
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THE ARAB SPRING & EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP
Jaleh Fazelian, Washington University in St. Louis
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Overview
A little background The Course Guide Library activities throughout the
semester Assessment Future plans
Building Trust & Relationships
Setting the stage
We work well together Recently tenuredRecently back from sabbaticalLooking to do something different
Working together
The Course Guide
http://libguides.wustl.edu/arabspring
Primary Sources
One-on-One Meetings
In-class feedback
VJ Um Amel aka Laila Sakr
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 <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23jan25" o
Paper feedback
Primary Sources: Part Two
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
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
What would we do differently?
Incorporate more primary source materials
BI Session in the classroom, not the library
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
Questions?
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-Shief White Paper (http://r-shief.org/docs/r-shief-brochure.pdf). Accessed September 18,
2013.