2009 ALA Poster Sessions Abstracts Booklet

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 28th Annual ALA Poster Sessions

 

American Library Association Annual Conference

Chicago, IL

July 2009


2009 Poster Session Committee:

 

Jody Condit Fagan, Chair, James Madison University
faganjc at jmu.edu

 

Candace Benefiel, Review Panel Chair, Texas A&M University
cbenefie at lib-gw.tamu.edu

 

Charlotte Dugan, Abstracts Editor, Missouri State University Library CharlotteDugan at MissouriState.edu

 

Reviewers:

 

Julie Banks, Southeast Missouri State University

Jeff Barber, Regina Public Library

Nan Butkovich, Penn State University

Christina Desai, University of New Mexico

Mollie Dinwiddie, University of Central Missouri

Stephanie Graves, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Stefanie Hunker, Bowling Green State University

Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Steven Johns, Des Moines Area Community College

Wendi Arant Kaspar, Texas A&M University

Deborah O. Lee, Mississippi State University

Barbara Lewis, University of South Florida

Meris Mandernach, James Madison University

Michelle Minerd, Kent District Library

Sarah McHone Chase, Northern Illinois University

Pixey Mosley, Texas A&M University

Necia T. Parker-Gibson, University of Arkansas

Susan Wells Parham, Georgia Institute of Technology

Carl Pracht, Southeast Missouri State University

Arlene Salazar, Texas State University

Jodi Shepherd, Ferris State University

Melissa Van Vuuren, James Madison University

Luke Vilelle, Hollins College

Michael C. Witt, Purdue University
Floor Managers:

 

Anjana Bhatt, Florida Gulf Coast University

Howard Carter, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Yu-Hui Chen, University at Albany, SUNY

Kristen Costello, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Cory Grimmicnk, Hillsdale Community Library

Michelle Minerd, Hillsdale Community Library

Sarah McHone Chase, Northern Illinois University

Michael C. Witt, Purdue University

 

ALA Liaisons:

 

Delin Guerra, Anne Weglewski, and Karee Williams

 

Abstracts Booklet:

 

Charlotte Dugan, Missouri State University Library

 

Editorial Assistant:

 

            Elizabeth Kline, James Madison University

 

 


2010 Annual Poster Session Application Information

2010 Annual Conference, Washington, DC: June 26-28, 2010 

 

Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2010 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, will be accepted via the World Wide Web at:

 

http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/

 

Applications will be accepted between October 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010

 

An application form, guidelines for applying, helpful hints, and photos of sample poster sessions can be found at the website. If you don't have access to the World Wide Web or to email, please contact Jody Condit Fagan, Chair, at 540-568-4265 (telephone) for instructions on how to apply.

 

Applicants will be notified by March 1, 2010 whether their poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Poster sessions will be presented on June 26, 27, and 28 at the conference.

History:

Poster sessions were introduced to the American Library Association at its 1982 Annual Conference in Philadelphia. They are an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programs.

Poster sessions may present any of the following:

Ø  a report of a research study

Ø  an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort

Ø  a description of an innovative library program

Poster sessions cover a broad range of subjects grouped according to such areas as management, collection development, technology, reference, and library services to special groups.

Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on bulletin boards. During their assigned time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Participants are selected through a double-blind peer review process.

 


Session I: The Collectors: Posters on Acquisitions, Cataloging and Classification, Collection Development and Management, History, Serials, and Special Collections

 

Saturday, July 11, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 

I - 1

Do Chemists Use Old Literature? Comparison of Age Distribution of References Cited in CIC Chemistry Faculty Publications: 1954-2004 - Nancy J. Butkovich

I - 2

Library Science Education and the Metadata Librarian - Michael Bolam

I - 3

Avoiding Duplicate Name Authority Records in a Retrospective Cataloging Project - Lucas Mak

I - 4

Identifying Works Using Legacy Data: FRBRization Approaches, Issues, and Challenges - Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang

I - 5

Subjecting the Catalog to Tags: LibraryThing for Libraries Usage at CSUN - Danielle Skaggs and Jennie Quiñónez-Skinner

I - 6

Cleaning Cottages and Castles: Weeding Year-round - Dana Peterman and Christina Woo

I - 7

Issuing an A.P.B. for Oral Histories: Developing a Survey Model for Other Libraries - Juliana Nykolaiszyn and Tanya Finchum

I - 8

Trashy Tags: A Study of Problematic Tags in LibraryThing - Marliese Thomas, Dana Caudle and Cecilia Schmitz

I - 9

To Build or to Buy: The Tale of the Library à la Carte Open Source Project. - Margaret Mellinger, Jane Nichols and Kim Griggs

I - 10

Man-WHAT? The What, Why, How, When and Where of Building a Great Manga Collection  at  Your Library! - Rachel Kitzmann, Erika Caswell and Candice Mack

I - 11

Scanning Service Takes the Anxiety Out of Microform Collections - Brenda Reeb and Maura Proctor

I - 12

Acquiring from Secondary/Used Sources: Money Saver or Time Sink? - John Ballestro and Julie Mosbo

I - 13

Looking for Genres on the Web: Content Analysis of American Author Websites - Timothy Hackman and Karen Patterson

I - 14

Analysis of BioOne Journal Collections: Their Quality, Indexing Coverage and Scholarly Content - Lutishoor Salisbury and Carolyn Mills

I - 15

From Workflow to Information Flow: Collaborating for Effective Collection Development - Julie Gilbert and Anna Hulseberg

I - 16

Taking Stock of Special Collections in Public Libraries - Alison Leonhardt, Gwen Glazer, James O'Connor, Laura Deal and Christina Spallone

I - 17

Walking the Walk: A Path to Support Open Access Publishing - Donna Braquet and Linda Phillips

I - 18

Data Talks: Who Is Listening? - Meris Mandernach

I - 19

Built to Scale: Designing an Efficient and Highly-Automated Digitization Workflow - Aaron Brenner

I - 20

Deal or No Deal? A Method to Appraise Big Deals - Deborah Blecic, Sara Blaszczak, Joan Fiscella and Stephen Wiberley


Session II: The Educators: Posters on Distance Learning, Continuing Education, Library Education, Literacy, and Research Methodology

Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

 

II - 1

Waves of Change: Redefining Library Services with the TIDES Program - Christine Hennessey and Susan Clarke

II - 2

How Much Can One-Session Library Instruction Improve Information Literacy Skills for Students? - An Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes - Ma Lei Hsieh

II - 3

Faculty Assessment of Library Instruction: Are Your Instruction Programs Really Enhancing Student Scholarship? - Leanne Hillery

II - 4

Information Literacy Insider: Assessing Information-seeking Strategies with a Contest Created for Students, by Students - Carrie Donovan, Virginia Vought and Daniel Poynter

II - 5

Comparison of Required Introductory Cataloging Courses, 2008 Update - Jodi Spillane

II - 6

Catching Up to Google Scholar: The Retrieval Power of Academic Search Premier and Google Scholar - Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and John Coogan

II - 7

An Endangered Species: The Science/Engineering Librarian - Nedelina Tchangalova

II - 8

Egypt Camp: A University Expedition for Middle School Students - Jenny Presnell

II - 9

Inspiring Writers with Swag: A Journey through Wayne State University Libraries' Chapbook Information Literacy Initiative, a K-20 Literacy Collaboration via Poetry and Art - Lothar Spang, Heather Harrison and Alice Cruz

II - 10

WISE Pedagogy on Demand: Free Training for LIS Online Instructors - Anne McKinney

II - 11

Faculty Scholarship Database: Ingenuity through Collaboration - Michelle Oleson, Krista Montgomery Knapp and Mandy Hackley

II - 12

Getting To Know Users: Defining University Library Constituencies for Research - Jimmie Lundgren

II - 13

If You Post It, Will They Come? Effective Advertising for Librarian Jobs - Kathryn Kjaer

II - 14

Ethnic Minority Librarian Recruitment: 2 Programs with 1 Goal! - Gerald Holmes, Jason Alston, Sha Li Zhang and Julie Hersberger

II - 15

Why Present a Poster at the ALA Annual Conference:  An Analysis of What Motivates Participants - Julie Banks and Carl Pracht

II - 16

A Matrix from a Matriarch - Kelly Behle

II - 17

The Researcher's Journey: Scholarly Navigation of an Academic Library Website - Steve McCann, Kate Zoellner, Tammy Ravas, Sue Samson, and Kim Granath

II - 18

Do They Really Know? Collaborating with Faculty on Information Literacy assessment. - Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Katie Gibson, Masha Misco and Eric Resnis

II - 19

Preventing Plagiarism: Keepin' It Real - Alice Perez, Alanna Aiko Moore, Gayatri Singh, Marlo Young and Dominique Turnbow

II - 20

Lean and Mean: Presenting LibQUAL+T Results to Library Users - Mary Ranadive and MacDonald Patricia


Session III: Global Solutions, International Projects in Libraries

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 

 

III - 1

Globalization and Diversity in Children's Literature: Experiencing the World  at  Your Library! - Camille McCutcheon

III - 2

Building Better Reference Skills Together: Library Staff Training in the United Arab Emirates - Jennifer Snoek-Brown and Bridie Farah

III - 3

GIVES - Gateway to a World of Information - Lynne Rudasill, Helen Sullivan, Kit Condill and Joseph Lenkart

III - 4

Degrees of Change: Is There Room for the Foreign LIS Degree in Today's Academic Library? - Amber Burtis, Megan Lotts and Melissa Hubbard

III - 5

Libraries and Museums: Snapshots of Special Collections in Trinidad and Tobago - Kumaree Ramtahal and Sunita Gobin

III - 6

Volunteer Tourism: How Study Abroad and Service Learning Programs Transfer Skills and Help Sustain Grassroots Lending Libraries in Central America - Jane Mirandette and Hannah Miller

III - 7

"We're Going Home": The Lost Boys of Sudan and the Panyijiar County Library Project - Bethmarie B. Gooding

III - 8

Users' Satisfactions via deliverDocs and ILL from Texas to Qatar - Suzanne Gyeszly

III - 9

Academic Libraries Outreach to Libraries in Developing Countries - Raik Zaghloul

III - 10

A Healthy Dose of Competition Sparks Innovation and Community Building: The Global Libraries Romania Community Participation Contest - Meaghan O'Connor and Katie Sheketoff

III - 11

The Academic Library in Contemporary Kenya: Challenges and Way Forward - Michael M. Gathua

III - 12

Library Anxiety in Chilean English Education Students - Rachel Slough

III - 13

Casting a Net from Nebraska to Nicaragua: Extending Library Outreach and Service to Our Sibling Institution at the Universidad Nacional de Autónoma de Nicaragua, León - Marvel Maring

III - 14

"Morals Presented by Literature, Moods Reflected by Calligraphy" Calligraphy Exhibition - Liang Ching Ju

III - 15

From PDCA to KPI:Service quality improvement mechanism of the ITRI Library - Jan-Yun Wang, Mei-Yu Liang and Mei-Lien Chu

III - 16

Land of the Dragon and Home of the Beaver: Oregon's International Relations Round Table and the Horner Exchange Program with China - Richard Sapon-White

III - 17

Cross-Cultural Perspectives of User-Satisfaction with Academic Libraries within a Developing Country. - Patience L. Simmonds

III - 18

National Taiwan University Medical Library Launches a New Reading Paradise - Peng Kao

III - 19

User-centric Design for Digital Library of the Caribbean - Marilyn Ochoa and Mark Sullivan

III - 20

Smart Investing Yields Big Dividends - Claudia Ruediger, Jill Young and Charles McAllister


Session IV: Outreach: Posters on Interlibrary Cooperation, Library Services to Special Groups, and Reference and Information Services

 

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

 

IV - 1

Causing a Hubbub: Hosting a Freshmen Orientation Extravaganza at the Library - Alice Wasielewski and Stacey Greenwell

IV - 2

Librarianship Is a Contact Sport - Anthony Molaro

IV - 3

Student Affairs Connection: Marketing Libraries through Co-Curricular Activities - Kathryn Crowe

IV - 4

Reference Tools in Second Life - Florence Tang

IV - 5

Bridging the Gap: Combining the Resources of a Public Library & High School to Reach Out to Teen Moms - Peggy Gallagher and Lindsay Klemas

IV - 6

We the People: Library Leadership in Constitution Day Celebrations - Sara Baron

IV - 7

Educate Einsteins without Evaporating Your Budget: A Cost-Effective Guide to Integrating Science into your Library - Alaina Cauchie and Kelly Sanders

IV - 8

From the Consortium to the Reference Desk: Keeping CHAT and Improving Reference at the MSU Libraries - Amanda Clay Powers, Li Zhang, David Nolen, Gail Peyton and Julie Xu

IV - 9

The Academic Library as a Civic Commons - Theresa Mudrock, Angela Lee, John Vallier, Jessica Albano, Jill McKinstry, Anne-Marie Davey and Emily Keller

IV - 10

If You Feed the Parents, the Students Will Come: Freshman Parents' Library Program to Promote Student Information Seeking Behavior - Marcia Boosinger

IV - 11

Comparing Apples to Oranges? Community College and University Cooperation in Virtual Reference - Sara Memmott, Mary Kickham-Samy, Sandra C. McCarthy, Christine Tobias and Arlene Weismantel

IV - 12

Leaving the Library: Holding Office Hours in Your Liaison Department - Renee Tanner and Connie Strittmatter

IV - 13

READY, SET, READ! - Sue Walton and Cate Fleming

IV - 14

Publish, Don't Perish: Creating a Scholarly Publishing Series for Faculty Outreach - Lisa Nickel and Betty Ladner

IV - 15

It IS More than Just Cheating: Demonstrating the Importance of Academic Integrity to First Year Students. - Eric Resnis, Rob Withers and Kwabena Sekyere

IV - 16

"Dear Sir, I Have Been Looking for...": Analyzing Virtual Reference Correspondence - Kevin Ford, April Levy and Dana Muvceski

IV - 17

It's Just Rocket Science: Academic Libraries as Faculty Outreach Partners - Melanie Sellar

IV - 18

Let's Do It Again: Librarian/Faculty Collaboration: Lessons and Outcomes - Regina Beard

IV - 19

Library and Information Center Accessibility: The Differently-able Patron's Perspective - Clayton Copeland

IV - 20

Who's In, Who's Out? What's Hot, What's Not? - Life in a Teen Girls Book Club - Frances Yates


Session V: Connections: Posters on Cooperation with Non-Library Institutions and Agencies, Interlibrary Loan, Library Use Instruction, and Public Awareness

 

Monday, July 13, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 

 

V - 1

Exploring the Virtual Library: Undergrad Learning Using Facebook and Wikis - Marilyn Ochoa and Matthew Loving

V - 2

Overcoming Distance: Using Elluminate for Synchronous Library Instruction - Marilyn Ochoa and Mary Edwards

V - 3

Library 2.0. - How Does Your (Book) Garden Grow? Increasing Circulation at Academic Libraries through In-Library Book Displays Promoted via LibraryThing - Michelle Maloney

V - 4

Library Secrets! Marketing Library Services with Social Software Tools - Jennifer Kelley

V - 5

Using Technology to Improve Interlibrary Loan Service at the University of Southern Indiana - Kathy Carmichael

V - 6

Reaching Students Outside of Traditional Library Instruction: Creating Online Tutorials to Reach a New Generation of Information Users - Curt Friehs and Cindy Craig

V - 7

From Annotated Bibliographies to Zines: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration on Alternatives to the Research Paper - Sylvia Andrychuk and Elizabeth Gibson

V - 8

Making a Handout into a Helping Hand: Creating Useful Materials in the Right Format for Library Users - Denyse Sturges

V - 9

Kissing Cousins: Writing Centers and Academic Libraries - Lisa Santucci

V - 10

Welcome to Our Libratory: Promoting Scientific Literacy in the 21st Century - Victoria Ross and Katja Rossi

V - 11

Web 2.0 in Information Literacy Online Tutorials - Margot Hanson and Diane Nahl

V - 12

The Assignment Research Calculator: Designing, Developing and Managing Your Own Customized Project - Jane Magee, Monica Fusich and Elisabeth Thomas

V - 13

Voices in the Library: Introducing Public Performance in an Academic Library - Connie Strittmatter and Rene Tanner

V - 14

Ethnographer for an Hour: Replacing the Traditional Library Tour with Student-centered Exploration - Nancy Noe

V - 15

Library Blogging at the Time of Need: The Creation of a Class Specific Library Resources Blog with Entries That Coincide with Topics as They Are Discussed in Class - Carissa Tomlinson

V - 16

The Library's Role in Showcasing Faculty Scholarship and Artistic Work - Wes Wison, Ruth Szpunar, Tiffany Hebb, Rick Provine and Kathryn C. Millis

V - 17

A Royal Flush without a Poker Face: Reaching First Year Students through Instruction and Innovation - Maryke Barber, Beth Larkee and Luke Vilelle

V - 18

Getting Out of the Comfort Zone - Teaching a Class on Banned Books - Tiffany Hebb

V - 19

Reading Them Their (Copy)rights: Integrating Intellectual Property Awareness in the Humanities through Library Instruction - Patrick Tomlin

V - 20

Face Out - Marketing Your Collection on the Cheap! - Catherine Ingram

 

 


Session VI: Infrastructure: Posters on Buildings and Equipment, Management, and Technology

Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

 

VI - 1

Who's on Next? Early-Career Librarian Participation in Professional Associations - Angela Bardeen, Gene Springs and Stefanie Warlick

VI - 2

Web-based Citation Management Software and the Impact of Metadata Quality on User-driven Metadata Reuses - Yuji Tosaka

VI - 3

Keeping People at the Center of the Public Library: Analysis of Disruptive Technology in the Library and Suggestions for Creating a People-Centered Environment - Lisa Chow and Sandra Sajonas

VI - 4

GIS Application for Library Accessibility Analysis - Sung Jae Park

VI - 5

Let Drupal Drive Your Website - Ronald Peterson

VI - 6

The Economic Crunch: How the ARL Libraries Are Responding to this Challenge? - Zhonghong Wang

VI - 7

Download Here, Download There.A Downloadable Kiosk in the Library. - Margaret Peebles

VI - 8

We Are Family: Integrating Student Assistants into the Life of the Library - Luke Vilelle

VI - 9

"Search OSU and Beyond.": The Impact of WorldCat Local at the Ohio State University - Moriana Garcia, Morag Boyd, Lynda Hartel, Rebekah Kilzer and Jennifer Kuehn

VI - 10

Go Mobile: Top 5 Mobile Services for Libraries - Lisa Carlucci Thomas and Joe Murphy

VI - 11

Mobilizing to Support Mobile Users - Diane Hudson, Juliet Kerico and Beth Rasch

VI - 12

Playing with Fire: Engaging Community Partners in Library Disaster Planning - Amy Ward and Mary Evangeliste

VI - 13

Focus Group or Policy Maker: A Review of Library Advisory Groups from Past to Present - Mila Su

VI - 14

A "SWAT Team" Approach to User Studies - Tina Smith and Erin Mayhood

VI - 15

Chatting Via Qwidget: Does the Interface Make a Difference - Ken Furuta, Cynthia Johnson, Penny Coppernoll-Blach, and Sara Davidson

VI - 16

Espresso on a Black Coffee Budget: The Restructuring of the University of Arizona Libraries - Ricardo Andrade, Raik Zaghloul and Maliaca Oxnam

VI - 17