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American Library Association Annual Conference

Chicago, IL 2005


2005 Poster Session Committee:

Karen Lawson, Iowa State University Library, Chair (klawson at iastate.edu)

Jody Condit Fagan, James Madison University, Review Panel Chair (faganjc at jmu.edu)
Natalia Taylor Poppeliers,
Tom Green County Library, San Angelo, TX, International Sessions (natalia.taylor at co.tom-green.tx.us)

Charlotte Dugan, Southwest Missouri State University Library (cad315f at smsu.edu)

Candace Benefiel, Texas A&M University (cbenefie at lib-gw.tamu.edu)

 

Abstracts Booklet: Jody Condit Fagan

 

ALA Liaisons: Kathy Harris (kharris at ala.org) and Delin Guerra (dguerra at ala.org)

 

2005 Poster Session Reviewers:

 

Julie Banks

Southeast Missouri State University Library

Jeff Barber

Regina Public Library, Saskatchewan, Canada

Sarah C. Beasley

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Sandra da Conturbia

Texas A&M University

Ginny Cunningham

University of South Florida Library

Kathleen Degyansky

Queens Borough Public Library, New York

LaDonne Delgado

Mississippi State University Library

Christina Desai

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Charlotte Dugan

Southwest Missouri State University

Jody Condit Fagan

James Madison University

Joni Herbst

University of Oregon Law Library

Darren A. Hoerner

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington

Steven Johns

Iowa State University Library

Martin Kesselman

Rutgers University Libraries

Joanne King

Queens Borough Public Library, New York

Karen Lawson

Iowa State University Library

Deborah Lee

Mississippi State University Library

Maureen Morris

Cornell University

Natalia Taylor Poppeliers

Tom Green County Library, San Angelo, Texas

Richard E. Sapon-White

Oregon State University

June Schmidt

Mississippi State University Library

Earl Shumaker

Northern Illinois University Libraries

Jean Tabor

Canton Public Library, Canton, MI

Julie Tharp

Arizona State University Libraries

Elena Tscherny

District of Columbia Public Library

 

Floor Managers:

 

Julie Banks

Charlotte Dugan

Jody Fagan

Steve Johns

Karen Lawson

Jean Tabor

Natalia Taylor Poppeliers


2006 Poster Session Application Information

New Orleans, LA: June 22–28, 2006

 

Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2006 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, will be accepted via the World Wide Web at:

 

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/ala/

 

Applications will be accepted between November 1, 2005 and January 31, 2006

 

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, Review Panel Chair, at 540-568-4265 (telephone) for instructions on how to apply.

 

Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2006 whether their poster sessions have been accepted for presentation at the conference.  Poster sessions will be presented on June 24, 25, 26 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.

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

Saturday, June 25, 2005
11:00am – 12:30 pm
 

I - 1

Organized Cooperation: A Web-based Tool Helps OhioLINK Health Sciences and Hospital Libraries Prioritize Cooperative Collection Development Opportunities - Lynda Hartel, Larry Fischer and Mary Conroy

I - 2

21stcenturycataloging.com: Changes, Challenges and Choices - Cheryl Peltier-Davis

I - 3

If You Store it, Will They Use it? Collection Storage at the UCSD Biomedical Library - Simona Konecna, Karen Heskett and Susan Starr

I - 4

“Hidden” Opportunities: Staff Reorganization Sparks Hidden Collections Project at the University of Iowa Libraries - Jennifer Wolfe and Lisa McDaniels

I - 5

Creating a Faculty Publications Database at Your Institution: Lessons Learned - Vanette Schwartz, Bruce Stoffel, Morag Boyd and Susan Braxton

I - 6

College Students, Cookies, and Collections: Using Holiday Study Breaks to Encourage Undergraduate Research in Special Collections - Barbara Kern, Rebecca Starkey, Susan Summerfield and Anne Taylor

I - 7

Cooking up a Cookbook Collection in Special Collections - Tracy Englert

I - 8

Media Finders: Expert Search Intermediaries for the Online Catalog - Kelley McGrath and Sue Weiland

I - 9

Are They Ready to Make the Switch? Results of the WSU Libraries Survey on Electronic and Print Collections - Cathy Moore-Jansen and Judith Wolfe

I - 10

Five Year's of Federal Documents Use Data at Illinois State University - Angela Bonnell

I - 11

Growing an International Collection at the University of Florida Libraries - Chelsea Dinsmore and Joe Aufmuth

I - 12

Library Service at a “Paperless” Information Center - Grace Xu

I - 13

A FRBR-Inspired Initiative Towards Better User Retrieval of Materials Held in Multiple Versions - Betsy Simpson, Jimmie Lundgren and Tatiana Barr

I - 14

An Adventure of the American Mind, Joining Educators and Students with Library of Congress Resources - Cynthia Rich and Margo Tomaras

I - 15

Doing it eBay: Using the Global Garage Sale to Build Institutional Archives - Camila Gabaldon

I - 16

Building a Native American Studies Media Collection in an Academic Library - Colleen Major and Sebastian Derry

I - 17

The Center for Neighborhood History at the Boston Public Library - Jennifer Latchford

I - 18

Cataloging Department Initiatives in a Digital Environment - Linda Dujmic and Terry Hurlbert

I - 19

Creating Stack Blueprints and Floor Plans Using Excel - Debbi Smith

I - 20

Hold Shelf Study at University of Maryland, Shady Grove Library - Katalin Mouyal

 


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

Saturday, June 25, 2005
1:00pm – 2:30 pm
 

II - 1

EMMA (Electronic Markup and Management Application): Innovations in the Writing Classroom and Applications for Research in Information Literacy - Caroline Cason

II - 2

Demystifying the Institutional Review Board Process for Librarians - Lisa Nickel, Mary Metzger and Anne Osterman

II - 3

Patterns of Gender and Ethnicity in New LIS Graduate Placements - Stephanie Maatta Smith

II - 4

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: Visual Literacy Through Critical Inquiry - Laura Barrett and Suzan Parker

II - 5

Can Citation Tools Improve Student Research and Citing Skills? - Maureen Morris and Virginia Cole

II - 6

Measuring Perceived Relocation Stress - Kitti Canepi and Howard Carter

II - 7

Collaborating with Instructional Designers to Teach Faculty - Rachel Viggiano

II - 8

Creating and Implementing a Nursing Information Literacy Program at Three Rivers Community College - Mona Florea, Linda Perfetto and Lili Rafeldt

II - 9

Resource-Sharing and Co-Management at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library: Implications for Change - Toby Matoush

II - 10

Designing Online Alternatives to High Demand Classes - Travis Dolence, Jane Row and Teresa Walker

II - 11

From Classroom to Cyberspace: Moving Bibliographic Instruction Classes to WebCT - Jenna Miller

II - 12

Improving Business Case Study Analysis with Information Literacy Training - Richard Robison and Armand Gilinsky

II - 13

Investigate the Library: Pop Culture Workshops Lure Students In - Krista Knapp, Kathryn Millis and Tiffany Hebb

II - 14

Library Online Tutorial (LOT) – An Electronic Tutorial and How-To-Guide in Library Information Research - Jess Echord, Helen Lam, Mike Curtis, Susan Gilmore and Michael Moore

II - 15

Mission Possible: Introducing First-Year Students to the University Library - Lisa Roberts

II - 16

Out of the Stacks and Into the Classroom: Using Online Reference Sources as a Teaching Tool - Kathryn Crowe

II - 17

Patient 101: Taking Charge of Your Healthcare by Using Evidence-Based Information - Colleen Kenefick and Susan Werner

II - 18

Raising the Cultural Awareness of Pre-Service Teachers: A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration using an Inquiry-based Research Project to Authenticate Children’s Folktales - Jane Smith

II - 19

Supporting Campus Support Staff: Library Outreach to Secretaries & Others - Kathryn Millis and Tiffany Hebb

II - 20

How Past Theory Informs Today’s Information Literacy Practice: Rediscovering Patricia Knapp - Diane Worrell, Stephanie Graves and Marta Davis

 


SESSION III: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS. International Projects in Libraries

Sunday, June 26, 2005
11:00am – 12:30 pm
 

III - 1

A Central American Sustainable Libraries Success Story: Establishing Protocols for Providing Community Center Services in Nicaragua’s First Lending Libraries and Mobile Projects while Offering International Volunteer Librarian and Student Placements - Jane Mirandette

III - 2

Thinking Outside the Borders: Library Leadership in a World Community - Barbara Ford and Susan Schnuer

III - 3

Libraries - Our Passport to Freedom - Beatrice Mbi

III - 4

The Global Performing Arts Database: Creating a Metadata Standard for the Performing Arts - Ann Ferguson and Rachel Howard

III - 5

A Large-Scale Public Library Renovation in Taiwan - Mao-Song Huesh

III - 6

Opening Doors In Paradise: The Power of a Library Card - Rachel Fenske

III - 7

Texas A&M University At Qatar (Tamuq): Establishing of a New Library from the Sand Dunes to Full Services - Charles Gilreath and Suzanne Gyeszly

III - 8

Cultivating the Reading Garden in the Taipei Public Library of Taiwan - Yun-feng Poh

III - 9

Enhancing Access to Health Care Information Through Converging Technologies: The Indian Experience - Maitrayee Ghosh

III - 10

Children’s Services in School Libraries of Patiala City: Outcomes of a Plan - Trishanjit Kaur

III - 11

Russian Librarians Visit New York - Beth Evans and Paraskeva Dimova-Angelov

III - 12

Japanese Academic Libraries: Similarities and Differences to United States Academic Libraries. - R. Cecilia Knight

III - 13

Training For Automation in the University of Zimbabwe Library - Josephine Florence Gurira

III - 14

Gathering of Readers: A Virtual Celebration of International Indigenous Reading and Culture - Loriene Roy, Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith and Vanessa Chavez

III - 15

We're All Librarians, Right...? - Mary Wilkins Jordan

III - 16

Serving the Children of a ‘Rainbow’ Nation: Unique Challenges and Wonderful Surprises at the Port of Spain Children’s Library - Sujin Huggins

III - 17

Shaping the Future: A Librarian's First Experiences in e-Learning - Mei-Mei Wu and Ssu-Hwey Wu

III - 18

Building an Online International Research Learning Community - Vanessa Middleton

III - 19

Digital Libraries of Intellectual Property Protection in China - Wende Zhang

III - 20

Providing Library Services For Doctoral Level International Engineering Students: Challenges And Opportunities - John Forys, Jr. and Jiannan Wang




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

Sunday, June 26, 2005
1:00pm – 2:30 pm
 

IV - 1

A New Approach to Faculty Outreach: Actively Offering Publishing Assistance - Lisa Nickel, Mary Metzger and Anne Osterman

IV - 2

Quality Service and Today's Reference - Pauline D. Manaka and Kathryn Kjaer

IV - 3

Reference on the Road: Challenges of a Mobile Reference Service. - I. Marina Salcedo

IV - 4

Researching Alternative Publications - Hong Wang and Bill Kristie

IV - 5

The Peer Model & "One Big Desk:" Addressing the Demands of Technology at the KU Libraries. - Nikhat Ghouse

IV - 6

Qualitative Measures for Academic Libraries: Statistics for the 21st Century Reference Librarian - Part 2 - Bella Karr Gerlich, Jean Alexander and Lynn Berard

IV - 7

Training Students for Reference Service - Ruth Connell

IV - 8

CHARTing Health Information for Texas: Providing Context and Instruction for Health and Vital Statistics - Helena VonVille

IV - 9

Chatting Up Our Patrons: Virtual Reference At The UCF Libraries - Jason Martin and David Woolard

IV - 10

Cited Reference Searching - Marcia Henry

IV - 11

Let's Talk : Offering Online Reference Service with a Twist. - Lisa Vardaman, Laura Slavin and Brian Webb

IV - 12

More Chat, Less Staff: A Model for 24/5 Chat Service - Marianne Bracke, Michael Brewer and Dan Lee

IV - 13

Outsourcing Virtual Reference in an Academic Library: How Does it Work? - J B Hill and Cherie Madarash-Hill

IV - 14

A Partnership for Service: Reference On the Go with the Mobile Librarian for Education Project - Laurel Haycock, Vicki Glasgow, Lynne Beck and Virginia Gunville Bach

IV - 15

Changing Directions: the Future of Reference at the UA Science and Engineering Library - Marianne Bracke, Elizabeth Kline and Sainath Chinnaswamy

IV - 16

Going Beyond the Reference Desk: Practical Advice for Beginning Librarians about Liaison Activities and Outreach to Faculty/Campus - Amia Baker, Amia Baker, Thedis Bryant, Adrienne Lee, Richard A. Stoddart and Brett Spencer

IV - 17

Making Hay Cooperatively: A Law Center and the National Agricultural Library Cooperate to Digitize Historical Farm Bills for a Cooperative Information Network - Sally Kelley

IV - 18

When You Get to College, You'll Need to Know This: What I Learned When a High School Librarian Interned at the College Reference Desk - Terry Morriston

IV - 19

Perspectives on Southeastern Louisiana University Digital Reference: Cooperation, Collaboration, Connection - Dayne Sherman, Sheck Alexia and Rodney Jackman

IV - 20

Usability Study at J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi - Elizabeth Stephan, Daisy Cheng and Lauren Young




SESSION V:  Connections:  Posters on Cooperation with Non-Library Institutions and Agencies, Inter-library Loan, Library Use Instruction, and Public Awareness  

Monday, June 27, 2005
11:00am – 12:30 pm
 

V - 1

Revolutionizing Electronic Document Delivery: The Integration of Electronic Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, and Document Delivery - Jeanne Voyles, Cheryl Neal and Ellen Knight

V - 2

Evergreen or Deadwood: Do Tenure-track Faculty Use Interlibrary Loan More than Tenured Faculty? - Kelly Hensley and Rita Scher

V - 3

What Do Distance Education Faculty Want from the Library? - Samantha Hines

V - 4

Read to Rover - Margaret Poska

V - 5

Implementing Adaptive Technology: Improving Access to Library Resources for Users with Disabilities in an Academic Library - Chricinda McGee, Whitney Winberg and Fusako Ito

V - 6

To Be or Not To Be: International Students and Language Preferences in Library Use - Fu Zhuo, Jennifer Emanuel and Shuqin Jiao

V - 7

Toddler Time! - Laura Foye

V - 8

Partnership Approach to Providing Educational Tools for Success - Hazel Walker and Amy Smith

V - 9

UDLib/SEARCH: A University of Delaware Library/State of Delaware Partnership Providing Online Databases to Public Schools - Dianna McKellar and Erin Daix

V - 10

How-to Develop a Marketing Plan for an Academic Library - Toni Tucker and Lynda Duke

V - 11

If You’re Going To Have a Library Blog, Blog it to their Courseware - Steven Bell and John Shank

V - 12

Library Displays as a Public Relations Tool - Gerrie Coy

V - 13

Poster Power: Planning and Producing Effective Poster Sessions - Mary Mallery and Frances Kaufmann

V - 14

RATS in the Library: A Welcome Infestation! - Lori Critz

V - 15

Read, Write, Think, Dream: Creating a Community of Adult Readers - Elisabeth Leonard, Allie Emigh-Carr, Katy Farrell and Katy Farrell

V - 16

The WebJunction Student Liaison Program: Marketing WebJunction Nationally to LIS Students and Faculty - Loriene Roy, Vanessa Chavez and Jacob Cleary

V - 17

Using Library Displays as a Marketing Tool: In House, On the Road, and Online - Michael Aloi and Diane Holliday

V - 18

Increasing Access to Usable Health Information for Seniors in Northern Idaho - Elizabeth Hill

V - 19

Librarian as First-Year Mentor: Making a Positive Difference through Personal Connection - Christen Cardina

V - 20

The Career Choice of Academic Librarians - Jeffery Luzius




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

Monday, June 27, 2005
1:00pm – 2:30 pm
 

VI - 1

Changing Mission, Strengthened Focus: A New Use for the Current Periodicals Room at the University of California Santa Cruz. - Catherine Soehner, Christy Hightower and Wei Wei

VI - 2

Moving to an Off-site Storage Facility: An Effective Communication Strategy Before, During, and After the Move - Cecilia Stafford, Jeannette Thompson, Felice Maciejewski, Donna Capelle Cook, Andrew Corrigan, Shane Robichaux, Eleanor Elder and Andrew Damico

VI - 3

GIS Reality Check: Who has Implemented GIS as a Library Service? Characteristics and Trends in Academic Libraries Using GIS - Camila Gabaldon and John Repplinger

VI - 4

Making Web Content Personal: Introducing the Health SmartLibrary at the Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. - James Shedlock, Michelle Frisque, Steven Hunt, Linda Walton, Jonathan Handler, MD and Michael Gillam, MD

VI - 5

Practical Steps for Closer Teacher-Librarian Collaboration - Stan Fuke

VI - 6

The Compass of Design---Sims Library Web Site Usability Assessment - Xiang (Jackie) Ding and Karen Jung

VI - 7

The LTC: One Stop Shopping for All of Your Library and Computer Support Needs - Julia Glynn and Joseph Murphy

VI - 8

Using Competitive Usability in a Usability Study of Online Catalogs - Beth Thomsett-Scott

VI - 9

The Metropolitan University Scholar Experience Program and The Library: Developing a Freshman Experience Program at San Jose State University - Toby Matoush

VI - 10

Digitization of the Postcard Collection in Troy University - Helen Lam and Jess Echord

VI - 11

Discover the University of Texas’s UTOPIA - Meredith Ault

VI - 12

Data Convergence - Library Statistics Management at The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries - Steven Turner

VI - 13

Reference and Instruction Services in a Community College Learning Resources Center: A Continuing Education and Training Program for Paraprofessional Staff - Jessica Moyer

VI - 14

Support Network for Untenured Faculty Librarians - Jo Staggs-Neel

VI - 15

Using Stories to Manage Libraries: A Project to Collect and Disseminate Stories for Library Management Success - John Harer

VI - 16

Will They Stay or Will They Go?: An Examination of Academic Librarian Turnover Intentions - Linda Colding

VI - 17

Diversity on the Web - Malabika Das, Jane W. Jacobs and Elizabeth L. Ankersen

VI - 18

Work Behavior Type and Myers Briggs Personality Type Preferences of Academic Librarians: Change over Time? - Carol Ritzen Kem, Ph.D.

VI - 19

Lending Global Positioning Systems (GPS) - Travis Dolence

VI - 20

A Collage of Cooperation - Leslie Massey and Tracey Woodward