Author: Jodi Shaw
Urban cyclist, mother of twins, bibliophile, and aspiring librarian.
The quip “build it and they will come” has never been truer than in the case of bike lanes and bicyclists in NYC. In this presentation I will discuss NYC’s bicycling infrastructure spanning from the birth of the country’s first bike lane in 1894 Brooklyn to the post-Bloomberg infrastructure we enjoy today.
Colleges and universities now struggle fulfill mission statements which include teaching information literacy skills to undergraduates. I suggest embedded librarianship (EL)—growing in popularity on campuses across the nation—as…