The Arab spring & embedded Librarianship

THE ARAB SPRING & EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP

Jaleh Fazelian, Washington University in St. Louis

إسقاط يريد الشعبالنظام

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.