Caro Pinto

Category: Projects

  • Linda Hall Library Travel Fellowship: A Librarian Meets with Other Librarians for Research Assistance

    This is my second dispatch from my virutal travel fellowship series. You can read the first one here . As a research & insruction librarian, I encourage students to make appointments with me to talk about their research. I advertise that I can help them with key word searching, database selection, subject heading deep dives,…

  • Linda Hall Library Travel Fellowship Day 0

    Yesterday marked the first day of my virutal travel fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. I’ll write more about my Day 1 activities in a near future post. I first wanted to talk a bit about my project and the efforts that went into making the first day a success. Over the…

  • .txt made my Wednesday

    Since August, I’ve been teaching in Zoom. I often utilize the chat to share prompts to generate discussion and set up active learning activities. I wrote up prompts in numbered lists in Google Docs to copy and paste into the Zoom chat, however, my prompts trasnferred as block texts instead. This was not ideal. 🙁…

  • I’m Still Standing

    What a wild time to be alive! Just dipping into this internet world to share some random thoughts about living during the pandemic. I struggled over the last few months to find a work from home set-up that met my needs. After a few months of ‘making it work’ with different make-shift set-ups, I bought…

  • Accessible Canned Responses

    I love canned responses in Gmail; they save me brain bandwidth and time every single day. In a given year, I can have anywhere between 12 and 20 canned responses in circulation. At the end of every academic year, I update them. This is a classic example of a stitch in time saves nine. I…