For Your Enrichment: Librarian Attitudes toward Classroom Humor
Abstract
Robert Perret is Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of Idaho Library.
References
For instance, Ronald A. Berk, Professors are from Mars, Students are from Snickers: How to Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations (Sterling, VA: Stylus).
Diana Loomans and Karen Kolberg, The Laughing Classroom: Everyone’s Guide to Teaching with Humor and Play (Tiburon, CA: Novatio, CA: H.J. Kramer; New World Library).
Peter M. Jonas, Laughing and Learning: An Alternative to Shut Up and Listen (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education).
Joshua J. Vossler and Scott Sheildlower, Humor and Information Literacy: Practical Techniques for Library Instruction (Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited).
Billie E. Walker, “Using Humor in Library Instruction,” Reference Services Review 34, no. 1 (2006): 117–28.
Bonnie L. Petry, “Adding Zest to OPAC Instruction, Humor and the Unexpected,” College & Undergraduate Libraries 5, no. 2 (1998): 75–85.
Dan Arnsan, “Libraries, Laughter and Learning: The Rubber Chicken School of Bibliographic Instruction,” Community & Junior College Libraries 9, no. 4 (2000): 53–58.
Kristin Trefts and Sarah Blakeslee, “Did You Hear the One about Boolean Operators? Incorporating Comedy into Library Instruction,” Reference Services Review 28, no. 4 (2000): 369–78.
Barbara McAdam, “Humor in the Classroom: Implications for the Bibliographic Instruction Librarian,” College & Research Libraries 46, no. 4 (1985): 327–33.
Jerilyn Marshall, “What Would Buffy Do? The Use of Popular Culture Examples in Undergraduate Library Instruction” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 13–16, 2002), http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED468217.
Nancy Seale Osborne, “Librarian Humor in Classroom and Reference” (report presented at a poster session at the annual meeting of the State University of New York Librarian’s Association, Oneonta, New York, June 1992), http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED349018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n4.261
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