Soon summer will be over (not soon enough for this summer hatin girl) and it will be time for a full set of classes to get started again so I need to get back to my Library Instruction ideas.
One of the few awesome things about summer is the programming on the USA Network. I got addicted when Monk started. I started to watch it because I like Tony Shalhoub, but I stayed because it was awesome tv. Then Psych came along, still my absolute favorite show. One of the only shows I will watch over and over and over. Just can't get enough of Shawn & Gus.
Now USA has gone over the top with their offerings and I'm watching almost all of them. Well last night it got me to thinking about Library Instruction. It used to be that all over their programming was related to crime. Most of it still is but now they've expanded. So we have Burn Notice, Covert Affairs & In Plain Sight that look at the CIA & US Marshalls, Suits is all about lawyers, Necessary Roughness is a psychotherapist dealing mostly with a football player but other personalities too, Royal Pains is about a doctor, and I don't watch White Collar or Fairly Legal. I'm sure they're good, I just couldn't get into those shows for some reason.
This is, I think, a good tie in for the library instruction that I do for a Sociology class that looks at social problems. Different types of law enforcement, different types of help for different types of problems.
If the Criminal Justice classes ever set foot in the door I could have all kinds of fun with them. TV is full of law enforcement shows but the CJ instructors just don't see the use for library instruction for their students. It's sad. Maybe one day!
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