The IDL SIG is proud to announce its 2022 STC Distinguished Community Service Awards recipients:

• Anita Matechuk, who received the Distinguished Service for Student Award (DSAS)
• Marcia Shannon, who received the Distinguished SIG Service Award (DSSA)

Each year, the STC awards members who have offered extensive service and exemplary commitment to their communities. Continue reading “Anita Matechuk and Marcia Shannon receive STC Distinguished Community Service Awards”

By Crista Mohammed, former IDeaL Editor and volunteer

After 2 years of living with and through the global pandemic, it is tiring to say and tiring to hear that every dimension of our lives has changed. Tiring or not, however, it’s true. For me—a university instructor—the biggest impact has been reshaping my teaching for online delivery. In this article, my first installment in a series that shares my challenges with online instruction, I explore the challenge of managing instructional space and time. Continue reading “Online Instruction Challenge Number 1: Managing Time and Space”

By Jannetta Lamourt, IDL SIG Social Media manager

Website redesign, update, remodel, makeover, or whatever one wants to call analyzing a current website and deciding what needs updating, repair, and/or new elements added to make disseminating information easier to the frequent public users of the website’s features. Ultimately, the most critical question is how to do it in the least amount of webpages downtime and the slightest frustration, aka “headache” for those involved in this process. Continue reading “Website redesign and the technical writer”