I - 1 What VRA Core Can Do For Dublin Core Hosting digital collections from various institutions can be a challenge when it comes to metadata standardization and interoperability. Differing schemas and clashing value vocabularies can make cross-collection searching and sharing confusing, but different types of resources demand different metadata needs. Wayne State University's Metadata and Digital Media Librarian designed an application profile to help bring the universitys existing hosted digital collections together in a cohesive way using national standards while still providing for the potential special needs of varying and often mixed material collections. This poster presents the process of assessment from reviewing existing metadata through to the creation of the application profile. VRA Core elements related to spatial and temporal descriptors are assessed, selected, and integrated with Dublin Core to create a more robust schema for use with cultural heritage digitization projects.
JODYSPACE1 I - 2 Un-Tethered Electronic Resources Management: Reaching Out Beyond Your Library Electronic resources management (ERM) is a patchwork business of strategically organizing the interconnectivity of resources, tools, systems, and staff. Coordination is critical, not only in the library, but throughout the organization. It was discovered that the purchase of electronic resources was occurring both in the library and in various departments at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). The departments were not coordinating the purchase of electronic resources, resulting in cost, licensing, and staffing inefficiencies. It was then decided to coordinate ERM functions throughout UMUC, setting up directional changes both in the library and UMUC as a whole. A plan is proposed to un-tether ERM and set up a central electronic resources processing unit, for the coordination of the acquisition, licensing, and management of electronic resources, using business process management (BPM) processes and take advantage of value chains throughout UMUC. A workflow diagram was developed to map out the new process between the library, academic departments, course development, and procurement. Expansion of ERM will, most importantly, result in economies of scale not previously seen and ultimately reduce costs. It will further address issues of quality and consistency of electronic resources license agreements and enable greater understanding of the curricular requirements.
JODYSPACE1 I - 3 Nothing to Sneeze At: Lessons Learned While Creating an Interdisciplinary Digital Repository about the 1918 American Influenza Epidemic In fall 2012, the University of Michigans Center for the History of Medicine (CHM) will launch an open access digital collection of archival and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in the United States. The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia (AIE) (http://www.influenzaarchive.org) will document the experiences of fifty diverse communities when influenza ravaged the country and took an estimated 675,000 lives. The project, awarded a prestigious We the People designation by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), collocates 50,000 pages of archival materials gathered by the CHM staff at 140 national institutions during a multi-year federally funded historical study. This poster outlines the major challenges faced, including: curating and digitizing a collection of primary sources already rendered as surrogates (photocopies, microfilm), securing permissions at the national level, keywording the diverse but narrowly focused materials, collaborating with an interdepartmental team, and designing a method of user testing. Solutions and strategies put in place to meet these challenges will also be discussed. The poster features AIE screenshots, archival images, and charts.
JODYSPACE1 I - 4 Not Your Moms Graphic Novels: Giving Girls Options Beyond Wonder Woman Graphic novels bring to mind the stereotypical male superhero, swooping in and saving the damsel in distress. This perception of graphic novels is due, in part, to a history of male novelists writing specifically for a male audience. Unfortunately, focus on only the hero in graphic novels ignores the rise of the strong female protagonist, and of an increasing number of talented female authors and artists. Librarians, who are expanding or creating a graphic novel collection, are provided with criteria for evaluating the positive representation of women in these novels. An examination of how women have been represented historically in graphic novels offers librarians additional background helpful in selecting graphic novels that will appeal to girls.
The poster enhances the presentation with enlarged pages from several recommended titles, visual representations of women through graphic novel history (1920-2012), and a timeline of the graphic novels development.
Resource lists and examples of recommended titles from multiple genres are provided.
JODYSPACE1 I - 5 Mapping Atlanta: Building Spatial History Tools and Digital Resources By leveraging geospatial technologies to link spatial features with archive and library collections, historical atlases and other cartographic resources can be transformed into digital databases and tools for researchers. This session will explore the organization and operation of a large-scale, collaborative mapping initiative. It will describe in detail the project's genesis and iterative technological implementation, as well as demonstrate how rich content can be drawn from archives and artifacts using geographic information systems and applied for use within the university classroom. Issues in digitization, metadata standards and system interoperability will be addressed using a repository architecture solution that provides a flexible and generic method for object handling, as well as for potential use within linked data applications.
JODYSPACE1 I - 6 Library Analytics Toolkit As libraries face increasing economic pressure, statistics are an ever more important tool for advocating for libraries and promoting the impact libraries have on their communities. Statistics are also crucial to respond to shrinking budgets and develop long-range plans for the future. Through this project, we researched and developed an open source software tool with the goal of allowing users to visualize a range of library usage events and statistics in a fully configurable analytics dashboard. For example, this will allow users to visualize changes in usage patterns due to evolving patron needs and will provide support for resource allocation to address these needs.
As the first stage of the development of this software tool, we met with a variety of library professionals to identify which metrics are most useful, to determine how information is collected and used, and to identify future trends in library information analysis. The poster will illustrate the results of the research stage and demonstrate how library staff may use the resulting software to better manage and understand their librarys statistics.
JODYSPACE1 I - 7 IVDb For Free!: Implementing an Open Source Digital Repository in a Corporate Library In 2011, Boston Biomedical Consultants, Inc. (BBC), a Boston-based consulting firm with a focus in the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) industry, set an initiative in motion to create a digital archive of the information collected over its 35-year history in IVD consulting. Overseen by the Information Services Manager, BBC investigated open source programs to build and maintain a digital archive of the company's intellectual property without a large monetary investment from the firm. Using the DSpace Digital Repository Software, the In Vitro Diagnostics Database (IVDb) was created, archiving the company's library files and providing a searchable online database for staff use in project-based research. This process included developing an IVD-specific controlled vocabulary for cataloging, digitizing a variety of physical documents, purchasing and configuring a server to house the scanned documents and the DSpace software using Ubuntu Linux, and installing, customizing, and populating the system. The result has been a user-friendly, robust database that has proven to be a time-saver for the firm's staff and a valuable research tool created with little monetary investment (~$500 in hardware costs).
JODYSPACE1 I - 8 It Takes a Village to Create a State Literary Map: Future Directions of the online Literary Map of North Carolina Partnering with the North Carolina Center for the Book, the University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is developing an innovative online literary map of North Carolina to support public interests, encourage student research, and document the states rich literary tradition. This unique project is a database-driven, searchable/browse-able, multi-level, multi-media online research tool which provides an extensive amount of content on works written about North Carolina and authors associated with the state. Originally designed for academic researchers, the map has expanded in both scope and content to include K-12 students, public library patrons, cultural tourists, and readers of all ages and interests. In the expansion of the audience, the project has increased collaboration among patrons, librarians, educators, authors, and prominent members of the literary community within North Carolina. Currently, a formal launch for the website is planned for the fall of 2012. This poster presentation will cover the development of the project, statewide collaborative efforts, and future ventures which include digitization of original manuscript materials, development of educational curricula and cultural resources, and sustainability of the Map.
JODYSPACE1 I - 9 Have I Got a Story for You! The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Scientific & Technical Library at China Lake, CA began presenting storytelling programs in 2004. The staff produced and videotaped the earliest programs with nothing but enthusiasm no extra funding and no extra staffing. With 24 successful programs completed, the team enjoys sharing their lessons learned and telling stories about their storytelling experiences. The programs were designed to improve organizational communication and knowledge capture, but they proved valuable in many other ways. The library gained networking partners, marketed library services, and the staff learned new skills. The programs enhanced the reputation of the library as an asset to the organization. Program topics have covered weapons development, wartime missions in Kosovo and Viet Nam, creating tethers for the Mars Exploration Rover, local archaeology, and Indian legends from local tribes. Evaluation methods have included feedback forms, observation, interviews, and recognition from upper management. This poster session will include a video montage of great moments from past programs, marketing materials, lessons learned, and instructions for embarking on a similar type of program.
JODYSPACE1 I - 10 Getting Credit for Copy Cataloging: Improving WorldCat as Well as the Bottom Line At the University of California, Davis, there is very little "easy" copy cataloging these days. What was once handled by beginning copy catalogers is now outsourced for shelf-ready processing. The loss of librarian positions over the last few years has meant that copy catalogers are taking more responsibility for complex copy cataloging. The success of the OCLC Expert Community project encouraged UC Davis Cataloging and Metadata Services to train and authorize copy catalogers to enrich, upgrade, and enhance OCLC WorldCat master records, capabilities previously limited to original catalogers. The number of master record edits has increased significantly and UC Davis has seen a dramatic rise in its OCLC credits, resulting in a profitable cataloging operation. The session will include exhibits of training procedures and workflows, as well as graphs charting increases in UCDs OCLC transactions and credits over several fiscal years. UCDs experience will provide evidence that investing in cataloger training and WorldCat enhancement can result in tangible dividends for individual libraries.
This session will be based upon Copy Cataloging Gets Some Respect From Administrators, a presentation scheduled for the ALCTS CaMMS Copy Cataloging Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter 2012 in Dallas.
JODYSPACE1 I - 11 From Blockbuster and Netflix to the Academic Library: Classifying Films by Genre This poster will highlight the current project to reclassify Wyndham Robertson Library (Hollins University)s film collection from an accession number system to a new classification, combining genre categorization with LC rules. Because genre-based categorization is not a current practice for academic library film collections, the system had to be designed from scratch. This session will highlight the process, starting with the decision to reclassify based on user feedback, then research, system design, planning for implementation, and lessons learned. Attendees will learn why they might want to consider reclassification, and understand the pros, cons and potential obstacles for the project. Images will include decision diagrams, DVD covers and record examples; the poster will also include quotes about the film collection from library patrons.
JODYSPACE1 I - 12 Finding Repositories of Research Data With Databib With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Purdue and Penn State University Libraries have collaborated to create Databib: an online, annotated bibliography of research data repositories. A number of academic and research libraries are taking an active role in data curation, applying library science principles to help address the data deluge. Librarians are helping researchers formulate funder-required data plans, adapting library practice to help organize and describe research datasets, developing data collections and data repositories, digital preservation, and data literacy. Librarians are in a good position to provide these services; unfortunately, there is currently no framework in place to support the organization and discovery of data repositories. Many funding agencies are requiring their sponsored researchers to submit their data to repositories without giving further instructions to them. What repositories are appropriate for a researcher to submit his or her data to? How do potential users find appropriate data repositories and discover datasets that meet their needs? How can librarians help patrons who are looking for data find and integrate datasets into their research, learning, or teaching? Databib (http://databib.lib.purdue.edu) has been created to help address these needs for librarians, data users, data producers, publishers, and funding agencies.
JODYSPACE1 I - 13 Economy Driven Acquisitions: Difficult Realities, New Potential Economy Driven Acquisitions: Difficult Realities, New Potential
A commitment to support distant students with electronic content, shrinking state budget, and inflation led Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to allocate the majority of the acquisitions budget to continuing resources; meanwhile, the monograph collection languished, dated and irrelevant. Traditional collection development became a remote luxury since monographic funds were stretched to cover content needed for specific courses. Financial constraints forced the analysis and rejection of former acquisition models and led to processes that updated library content and supported user information needs while expending fewer library resources. After evaluating Purchase on Demand (PDA) models, NAU selected one that best meets University needs. Based on subject profiles, 45,000 records were added to the catalog and the real work of maintenance and monitoring funds began. Webinars and previous experience facilitated planning for record maintenance, but as the process progressed unforeseen challenges arose. Success of the unmediated acquisitions pilot was determined by statistics, rate of expenditure of funds, suitability of titles purchased. The poster features statistics and graphs that represent the criteria used for evaluation and includes valuable considerations for planning and process development that can be applied to future user driven acquisition models.
JODYSPACE1 I - 14 Dueling systems: why the bookstore model of classification beat out the Dewey system in an Elementary School Library. This poster session will showcase Red Hawk Elementary, the newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District, located in Longmont Colorado. This school is our pilot school using the Bookstore Model instead of the Dewey Decimal System. It opened in August 2011 and the impact on students, staff and parents and district leadership has been transformative. This library is one of a kind in the United States. It is impacting school libraries, principals, and teachers across the country. The session will include the details of why this model was chosen, the transformative searching changes that have occurred for students and staff. The session will also include an analysis of the data that has been collected over a two year time frame. A longer version of this session was presented at AASL in October 2011. The presentation will be via Slide show with some handouts and photographs and charts showcasing the data.
JODYSPACE1 I - 15 Developing a Downloadable Audiobook Collection in an Academic Library Downloadable audiobooks are a relatively new addition to the ever widening world of electronic resources available in libraries. Instead of checking out audiobooks as physical CDs, patrons are able to access them as digital audio files through the librarys website. Once the patron checks out the audiobook online, it can be downloaded to a home computer, laptop, or a variety of portable listening devices (such as iPhones). Seeing electronic audiobooks as potentially very helpful for college students, two academic librarians at Southeastern Louisiana University developed a small collection as a pilot project for their library. This poster session illustrates their experience with starting the project, including the various questions and choices they encountered. How should a provider be chosen? What if funding is not available for a subscription service? Can the audio files be downloaded to any of the different mobile devices library users may own? The poster also highlights the selection process and the efforts the librarians made to choose audiobook titles that would be most relevant to academic coursework. The poster session will feature portable listening devices with selected audio clips in order to demonstrate usability and sound quality to attendees.
JODYSPACE1 I - 16 Check Out Science in the Library: How Library Kits Help Families Share Science Juvenile library collections should contain interactive materials related to science. Three years ago Oakland Public Library entered into a partnership with Lawrence Hall of Science to create science kits for libraries. Geared toward grades 1-5 and covering a wide range of topics from bird beaks to oil spills, these kits contained: an age-appropriate book, an experiment journal which users kept, detailed instruction sheets outlining the experiment, any needed scientific aids, e.g. a magnifying glass, and a free pass to the museum so that participants could further explore science. Oakland Public Library created and included in the kits a bibliography of other recommended titles that children could check out. An annual science festival was created at each participating library to introduce the kits and spur interest.
Evaluation and measurement of this project was accomplished by tracking usage of kits and participation at science festivals. Kit users, festival participants and library staff were interviewed and asked to fill out written questionnaires.
Session participants will bring kits for examination and will set up 1-2 experiments from the kits which attendees can try. Photos of past science festivals and evaluation data will be available on the posters and in electronic formats.
JODYSPACE1 I - 17 Alternate Digital Access Points: An Experiment with Providing Access to Archival Video through a Repository and YouTube In 2010, I undertook a project to help a scholar in Department of Film and Media at Kansas provide online access to his research data, hundreds of video interviews he conducted over the last 30 years with major actors, directors, musicians, and entertainers. Using our digital repository, KU Scholarworks, built on Dspace, the videos were converted to appropriate formats and uploaded under a creative commons license. In 2011, after over 100 videos had been uploaded to the repository, I experimented with placing a subset of 34 videos on YouTube in order to compare the usage statistics that Dspace generated against those of YouTube. I was sure we were missing an audience but wanted to have some idea of its size. Both resources are discoverable through searching Google. However the smaller set of 34 videos on YouTube has received over 100,000 views compared with only a few thousand for the current set of over 150 videos in the repository. These results seem to indicate that making this resource widely available means providing access and ensuring discoverability through multiple channels and methods. Neglecting to provide multiple access channels, particularly for media, may deny thousands the chance to discover materials.
JODYSPACE1 I - 18 QR Codes: If you code it, will they scan? Although QR codes (a type of 2-dimensional barcode) have begun proliferating in libraries, relatively little is known about what patrons think of this technology or how it can benefit them. To address this gap, Kansas State University Libraries and Rockhurst Universitys Library conducted a short online survey, five focus groups, and two pilot studies during the 2011 calendar year. This poster presents graphical summaries of the data gathered from these explorations and includes a section listing key conclusions and lessons learned. It also depicts many of the materials used to conduct the investigations, including: the display sign and take-away cards used to recruit survey participants; a screenshot of the online survey; the 11 QR code sign variants used in the focus groups to gain insight into patrons design preferences; the 3 signs used in the focus groups to compare how long it takes to use a QR code, a long url, and a short url on a mobile phone; the navigational QR code sign used in the focus groups; the QR code signs deployed during one of the pilot studies; and the QR codes integrated into Rockhurst Universitys Library OPAC along with a summary of how that integration was accomplished.
JODYSPACE1 I - 19 Picture Perfect: A Practical Guide to Using Flickr at Your Library The UC San Diego Libraries created a Flickr account in 2008 to use as a student-focused participatory outreach tool, and to act as a depository for images. Staff usage of the site was stagnant due to internal guidelines, including a picture release form required for every image with people it in. Staff noticed that students were taking pictures of themselves and others in the library and posting them to their public Twitter, FourSquare, and Facebook accounts, so it seemed current students were comfortable with sharing images of themselves online. After reviewing the literature in 2010, the Libraries adopted a web 2.0 sensibility that translated into an increased use of the account. As more images were uploaded, the account generated more activity (comments and favorites).
Using images from our account, this poster will highlight the ways in which the Libraries use Flickr: promote exhibits and events, highlight past events, library advocacy, virtual tour, image storage, etc. It will share our informal ground rules that guide our practice. This poster will also present findings of a literature review that examines privacy issues and Libraries posting images of their users on Flickr or other photo sharing sites.
JODYSPACE1 I - 20 Using Drupal as an Information Resource Platform: The Celebrating New Mexico Statehood Project at the University of New Mexico Libraries 2012 marks the first 100 years of New Mexico statehood, and as part of the centennial celebration the University of New Mexico Libraries have developed a centralized web-based search and retrieval system that enables users to access information about New Mexico culture and history in the form of books, journals, archival papers, photographs, audio and video resources held at more than a dozen institutions across the state and cataloged online in a variety of disparate information systems. It was also important to engage site users and encourage them to upload their own photographs and share their local knowledge about New Mexico history. To meet these requirements the UNM Libraries selected the open source content management system, Drupal, to serve as the platform upon which this resource would be built. The product of this effort is Celebrating New Mexico Statehood (http://nmstatehood.unm.edu), an official project of the New Mexico State Centennial. This poster will present some of the key conceptual and technical issues encountered while developing the Celebrating New Mexico Statehood website using Drupal 6.X, including content type design, implementing social media features, importing text and media elements, and site organization.
JODYSPACE1 II - 1 iP*ds in the Elementary Library Having a hard time figuring out how to use iP*ds in your library? This poster will explain how iP*ds have changed the curriculum at The School at Columbia University. Over the last two years, we have integrated iP*ds into our daily lives from kindergarten through fourth grade. This will include the best apps to use for storytelling, reading, and assessment as well as showing how I included these in my practice.
JODYSPACE1 II - 2 Remembering the "Student"in Student Assistant: The QR Codes Action Research Project Academic libraries underutilize one of their most plentiful resources: the intellectual abilities of undergraduates.
Student library employees complete a wide range of tasks but this work doesn't often engage students critical thinking skills -- skills that librarians work hard to develop when they see the same students in the front of the house.
In January 2010, the service desk on the fourth floor of the library was closed. This floor houses 11 separate collections, making navigation of the space confusing. Suddenly, an area that was supported with 115 student staff hours was supported with 20.
Two years later, three students working on the floor came up with a list of questions they were frequently asked by patrons and decided to try providing this information using QR Codes.
The poster session will document the process the supervising librarian and student workers used to evaluate if QR codes would be used by patrons. The students plan to use click-throughs and other usage statistics to determine if student patrons will use QR codes and which type of codes are most popular. Once this data is collected, the students will survey patrons via the web and in-person to determine if the codes are useful.
JODYSPACE1 II - 3 Creating an Interactive and Engaging Subject Guide with SpicyNodes SpicyNodes is a newly developed web authoring tool that allows teachers, librarians, and users in other trades to create interactive resource guides on any topic for various purposes. It employs radial-map visualization technology that can offer end-users the opportunity to explore and learn complicated concepts or subjects with ease. A radial-map basically consists of trees and graphs functioning like a spider web. Users can move freely from node to node in any direction they wish. It is similar to a concept map search engine provided by some database vendors; for example, Credo Reference databases visual search. Each tree node can be displayed like a simple web page containing hyperlinks pointing to an image, a video clip, and/or a source page accessible on the Web. A node can also link to other nodes covering the same area within the map. Like other social network websites, SpicyNodes also provides sharing, collaboration, and website embedding features. This poster will demonstrate a subject guide created with this tool for a second year seminar course entitled Japan through Literature and Films taught at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Pros and cons of this tool and the subject guide will be examined.
JODYSPACE1 II - 4 Starting from scratch: better assignments make undergrads into better researchers Library instruction seeks to improve students research skills and increase student engagement in the research process. The design and structure of an assignment often limits librarians ability to help their classes develop good search habits and strong research skills. In this project, librarians work together with course instructors to design research assignments that engage students in the research process. In addition, students benefit from a semester-long, structured relationship with a subject librarian focused on a specific learning activity. Instructors participating in this program work closely with librarians to consider the clarity, purpose, and scope of their assignments as they review and redesign research activities for their course with student success in mind. Librarians will also develop and offer scaffolded learning activities that guide students to use and evaluate scholarly information effectively. Learn how we worked to build closer collaborations with teaching faculty and reached new levels of engagement with our students as a result. Evaluation of students final projects and survey of students and faculty involved will show the success of this pilot project.
JODYSPACE1 II - 4 Undergraduate Research and Publishing: Attitudes and Practices The Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) defines undergraduate research as An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline. While much work has been done to study how undergraduates in general do research using library resources, undergraduates who choose to pursue long-term research projects with faculty are an understudied population within academic librarianship. This poster will discuss a study done with a group of students from several disciplines at Illinois Wesleyan University to investigate their engagement in undergraduate research with faculty mentors: how they chose their projects, how they interacted with mentors, challenges they faced along the way, and benefits of undergraduate research from their perspective. The study also sought to understand how the students attitudes towards sharing or publishing their work, e.g., through campus venues such as undergraduate journals or conferences, or through means external to campus such as regional disciplinary conferences or professional journals. Ideas for improving library services and support for this population will be presented, including a roadmap for education and outreach specifically around building awareness of scholarly communication issues such as open access and author rights.
JODYSPACE1 II - 5 Weaving Successful Partnerships: Creating a Sustainable Family Literacy Program Talk Story: Sharing stories, sharing culture, is a joint project between the American Indian Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association that started as part of ALA 2009-2010 President Camila Alires Family Literacy Focus Initiative. Our goal was to develop a replicable program model that was simple, sustainable, and scalable for libraries of all sizes. We sought to build self-esteem and cultural identity in our children, while sharing knowledge and fostering an understanding of cultural diversity to children of all backgrounds. The end result is Talk Story: Sharing stories, sharing culture, a literacy program that reaches out to Asian Pacific American and American Indian/Alaska Native children and their families. The program celebrates and explores their stories through books, oral traditions, and art to provide an interactive, enriching experience. The program has been able to continue through grants from AILA and APALA. To date, eight Talk Story grants have been awarded.
The session will highlight materials created for the program, including its website, and feedback from past grant winners. We will also share how we were able to find outside sponsorship from Toyota Financial Services so we could offer more grants to libraries and community organizations.
JODYSPACE1 II - 6 Using Academic Digital Collections to Enrich K-12 21st Century Learning Primary sources are key to the success of 21st Century learners. This poster session will share strategies of a Kindergarten-12th grade educational component integrated into three successful academic library digitization projects developed using grant funding provided by the North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (NCECHO) Heritage Partners. "The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library" (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/), "Seeds of Change: The Daily Reflector Image Collection" (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/reflector/), and "North Carolina State Government Publications Collection" (http://www.ncgovdocs.org/)provide appealing, accessible, and historically significant primary and secondary resources usable in all areas of the Kindergarten-12th grade curriculum making history come alive in the classroom. Presenters will share first-hand experiences based on planning, implementation, marketing, forming partnerships, grant writing techniques, focus groups, teacher workshops, lesson plan activity development and promotional strategies. Lessons learned during the process of the implementation of the Kindergarten-12th grade educational components for all three projects will also be highlighted.
JODYSPACE1 II - 7 Teaching with Google In Spring 2012, UW-Madison MERIT Library offered six instructional technology trainings to Madison Metropolitan School District schools including Sennett Middle School and Lincoln Elementary. As a new initiative, the trainings focused on equipping teachers to use technology to aid in the construction of knowledge. Trainings focused on using Google Applications including but not limited to Google Earth, Google Books, and Google Documents for peer review, self-graded quizzes, games, and more. In addition, library staff also provided training on using Interactive White Boards to create active and collaborative lesson plans that enhance knowledge and critical thinking skills.
JODYSPACE1 II - 8 Making a Good Thing Better: Increasing Demand for One-on-One Information Literacy Instruction at Grinnell College Come learn why Grinnell College Libraries enjoyed a 60% increase in the number of Library Labs, our customized research appointments, during fall 2011. Research consultations are well established instructional options in many academic libraries and have been offered at Grinnell for nearly 20 years. In this poster session, we will show how we promote, conduct, and assess our one-on-one information literacy sessions on topics such as analysis of the Occupy Movements protest signs, Aztec blood symbolism, and gender equity indices. Well also illustrate the positive connection between Library Labs and our classroom instruction as well as plans for expanding this successful one-on-one instruction option beyond the reference deskto librarians offices, special collections, and academic support centers across campuswhile maintaining its effectiveness.
JODYSPACE1 II - 9 Librarians and Peer Mentors: A Collaborative Approach to Library Instruction This poster outlines how librarians collaborated with the Honors Program to integrate information literacy skills into first year Honors curriculum. In the Honors Program all sections include a peer mentor (GURU), an experienced undergraduate student. Our approach in this project combined GURU led classroom instruction with library created digital content to form an integrated instructional approach. Peer mentors and faculty were able to explore new ways to integrate information literacy instruction directly into the course to move content beyond the traditional 50 minute library instruction session.
As experienced learners, GURUs are able to understand the research difficulties of first-year students. After surveying the GURUs to determine what questions or issues they encountered while doing library research, the library created online modules for the students to use at their point of need. Accompanying each library module is an instructors guide that offers suggestions and additional resources. The GURUS guided the instruction process, facilitated activities and served as a resource to the students using the online content. This model of novice (freshman), experienced (GURU) and expert (librarian) aligns our efforts between learning objectives, learning opportunities, and assessment.
JODYSPACE1 II - 10 Natural Transitions: Recruiting from K-12 for Future Academic Library Instructors As initiatives to include information literacy into higher education curriculum increases, skills such as classroom management, lesson planning and assessment that promotes lifelong learning are becoming increasingly important for academic librarians to possess. Within the last 20 years, academic reference librarian positions began including instruction as a large part of their job duties (Lynch & Smith, 2001). However, a majority of library schools appear to offer little to no courses in teaching information literacy. With nearly half of the teaching workforce of the United States quitting their traditional K-12 careers, and an expected 45 percent of academic librarians reaching the age of 65 or older this decade (Lynch, Tordella & Godfrey, 2002), there is an immediate opportunity to recruit former K-12 teachers into positions of academic librarianship, particularly within the field of Information Literacy. This research will reveal several factors contributing to the career change of former K-12 teachers (current academic librarians) and how they use their former K-12 training in higher education classrooms.
JODYSPACE1 II - 11 Happy RAILS To You: Using Rubrics for Authentic, Reliable, and Convincing Learning Assessments RAILS (Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) is an IMLS-funded, 3-year project designed to help academic librarians assess student information literacy skills exhibited in "artifacts of student learning" like research papers, presentations, worksheets, portfolios, or reflective journals. Using the AAC&U VALUE rubrics and the ACRL information literacy standards as starting points, RAILS assists librarians who seek to create campus-specific rubrics, "norm" them for use with multiple raters, and gather results data that inform instructional improvements. Of interest to both academic and school librarians, the RAILS project advances the use of direct, authentic assessments of information literacy learning, as well as trains librarians to score learning artifacts reliably over time or across student groups. This poster will 1) report the rubric results of 10 higher education institutions that participated in RAILS from 2010-2012 using graphs and charts, 2) share a list of rubric best practices, 3) communicate research-based strategies for norming rubrics with multiple raters, 4) supply RAILS publications and tip-sheets, and 5) employ laptops to demonstrate the RAILS website (www.railsontrack.info), including its tested training materials and rubric clearinghouse.
JODYSPACE1 II - 12 Faculty Case Tracker: An Online Tool for Effective Outreach With daily competing priorities, it has been a challenge for many liaison librarians to keep up with the research interests and teaching activities of every faculty member. However, in order to provide the most relevant services to faculty, it is absolutely essential that we indeed have a good grasp of the priorities of our faculty and maintain an up-to-date record of our interaction with them. To address this challenge, two departments, Web Services and Liaison Services, at the University of Houston Libraries, worked collaboratively to create a friendly software program that allows librarians to store, update, search faculty information and track their activities. The same program can also assist librarians to disseminate information to targeted faculty members efficiently. This poster will discuss the development of the program and the collaboration process of two library departments. Presenters will give a demonstration on how the program works, and how it supports our work on instruction, outreach and collection development.
JODYSPACE1 II - 13 Every Child Ready to Read @ LAPL The Los Angeles Public Librarys Reading Readiness Plan tasks library staff with empowering parents, caregivers, and teachers to build a literate Los Angeles. In response, librarians are partnering with schools, early education centers, and other community groups to offer Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshops in their neighborhoods.
LAPL has evaluated workshops in six communities using surveys, focus groups, and observation. As a result, the most successful formats and techniques are being codified and implemented in communities across the city.
Our poster will describe our successes and the lessons we have learned. We will discuss our most successful workshop techniques and methods of evaluation. And we will demonstrate the impact that Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshops are having in Los Angeles.
JODYSPACE1 II - 14 Evaluating Information: Using an Instructional Scaffolding Activity to Facilitate Student Learning Librarians have designed a number of information evaluation methods to use in library instruction (e.g., the CRAAP test from California State University, Chico). Instruction librarians and staff at the University of Tennessee (UT) Libraries have implemented a new information evaluation method based on the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why, how). This technique is currently used in UT undergraduate English composition library instruction sessions. The 5 Ws method is influenced by the educational theory of instructional scaffolding, a teaching strategy that builds off a students previous knowledge, provides students with simple tools to apply to increasingly complex tasks, and prepares students for independent learning through recall and familiarity. Our poster will compare this new method to existing information evaluation methods and will also discuss preliminary results from a study focused on student recall of the method and value placed on the method by English composition instructors.
JODYSPACE1 II - 15 Distance Learning Library Services at Urban and Metropolitan Universities All academic libraries have as their core missions serving the students, faculty and staff of their institutions. With the advent of distance learning, institutions have needed to further commit to providing an appropriate level of library services to remote, nontraditional learners. The library professions commitment to serving distance learners has resulted in the promulgation of a series of standards since 1963, including the 2008 ACRL Standards for Distance Learning Library Services. With these Standards as a guide, libraries have established their local organizations, policies and services to meet their unique user populations and library resources.
Urban and metropolitan universities differ from more traditional institutions as they often serve a largely nontraditional population of part-time students, taking courses on-campus, off-campus at remote locations, and increasingly online. With this online population, there is a blurring of distance learners and more traditional on-campus learners.
This presentation reports on a survey of libraries at the member institutions of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) and identifies the services, activities and policies that urban and metropolitan libraries have developed to provide library resources to their online and distance learners. Survey results will be presented in a variety of graphs.
JODYSPACE1 II - 16 Class Guides in Bloom ( Bloom's Revised and Digital Taxonomies, That Is) Springhares LibGuides, and the ability to create class and course guides using the system, have resulted in an explosion of class/course pages. Librarians are expending time and effort on creating pages. In addition, given the collaborative nature of the tool, librarians are freely sharing (and copying) pages at an amazing rate. Yet outside of page count hits, it appears that little is being done to assess the effectiveness of these pages. Blooms Revised Taxonomy and Blooms Digital Taxonomy provide framework for reviewing and considering class/course guide content and its relationship to information literacy student learning outcomes. This extensive survey of over 500 pages from eight southeastern land grant institutions, along with two historically black colleges in the region, provide a number of data points for discussion, including a percentage breakdown of where pages fall in terms of the taxonomies, the prevalence of information literacy learning outcomes, prominent vocabulary used by the creators, and whether or not active learning or student assessment/feedback is included within the guides
JODYSPACE1 II - 17 Capitalizing on university resources for easy and economical information literacy assessment ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system for the entire campus.
The libraries have partnered with several departments to utilize ePortfolios for the assessment of information literacy skills. Student work from departments are automatically forwarded to a team of librarians that assess the work using a revised version of the information literacy rubric developed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). What is unique about this process is that the artifacts are not tailored to the library or to the information literacy rubric.
Now in its third year, this project has provided extremely valuable and robust data regarding the information literacy skills at Miami. It assists in developing a baseline for students, and helps us to see progression in information literacy as students move through the curriculum. The assessments have provided data on which classes need further assistance with research assignments, classes that need syllabi revised to better assist students in the research process, and has helped us to easily identify classes and assignments that can serve as a model to others.
JODYSPACE1 II - 18 Brick by Brick: Legos in the Library Lego programs have been springing up in childrens libraries and have proved to be an effective way to blend a hands-on play with literacy. The type of play that Lego inspires is linked to many of the same kinds of skills needed to build literacy/reading ability. Lego programs can be adapted to almost any library space or schedule and are great ways to meet new families, especially those with children who are reluctant readers. Also, Legos current popularity in childrens publishing (mainly early readers) makes it extremely easy to connect the playtime aspect of Lego programs to your book collection. Also, libraries can promote the value of open-ended and often cooperative play, all while encouraging spatial, sequential and problem-solving skills. Lego programs at the Vancouver Public Library, and many other sites across North America, have proven to be a great addition to school-age programs, making the library a favorite destination for a diverse range of kids week after week. This poster session will provide visitors with a solid rationale for providing Legos in the library, as well as ideas about how to acquire Legos, program planning ideas, booklists and great pictures. Get building!
JODYSPACE1 II - 19 Assessment into Action: Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners What do you do with students you rarely see in the library? University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has a growing adult learner population, most of which take classes solely online. Reaching these students can be challenging. Librarians conducted an assessment of adult students to investigate their needs. This poster session will focus on the assessment results and the outreach plan put into place. It will highlight several initiatives, including librarian-faculty collaboration with introductory courses, the embedded librarian program, and the targeting of library services to adult students. It will also address using data to argue for increased budgetary support and collaboration with offices outside the library. Based on preliminary feedback from students and faculty, an increase in reference questions, as well as high usage statistics from librarian-created tutorials and discussion boards, the outreach plan is working. The poster session will include charts of the assessment data, handouts of the assessment tool, teaching and marketing materials (LibGuide, tutorials, newsletters), and photographs of embedded librarian best practices.
JODYSPACE1 II - 20 Recruiting Future Librarians with Diverse Backgrounds: a Collaborative Project at ten University libraries in North Carolina Recruiting the librarians with diverse backgrounds remains a challenging task for the library community in U.S. ALA Diversity Counts Report in 2007 calls that the field is not recruiting or graduating enough ethnic minority librarians to replace the number expected to retire in the next two decades, highlighting the need to recruit the next generation of the librarians with diverse backgrounds. In responding to this call, the University Libraries and the Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS) at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (UNCG), in collaboration with ten academic libraries in North Carolina, have created the Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars Program which has been funded by an IMLS grant in June 2008 and in June 2010 respectively. This collaborative Project assists with recruitment of students with diverse backgrounds into the LIS Department at UNCG; provides the students with internship opportunities; connects the students with experienced academic librarians for mentoring, and offers them with cultural enrichment activities during their two-year MLIS program. This session will present the implementation of the IMLS funded project and provide updates on the progress of the Program since its beginning in 2008.
JODYSPACE1 III - 1 Calling Yesterday, Texting Today: Starting a Text a Librarian Reference Current research references the increase of mobile devices amongst college students. Students use their mobile devices as calendars, phones, cameras, etc. According to the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project 2010, 96% of undergraduates have a cell phone. The report states, Text messaging has become the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily communication tool for this age group. If the Libraries want to meet users where they are, text messaging seems like an obvious choice.
The UC San Diego Libraries, aware of the changing environment, were wary of adding a new service when we have less staff and resources available. This poster discusses the UCSD Libraries Text a Librarian service pilot. This poster will highlight and share the implementation, staffing, marketing plans, and evaluation of the service. Many factors lead to a successful pilot. Once users add us to their list of contacts, sending a question is easy. Using a team of librarians and staff, and an email notification system spread the workload around so one person or unit wasnt overwhelmed. Using an online product helped ensure everyone had easy access to the tool.
JODYSPACE1 III - 2 Environmental Scan of Off-Site Reference in Academic Libraries Taking library services outside of the library seems to be a growing trend in academic libraries, but is it really? In 2011 Stephan and Scott conducted an online survey of academic libraries to measure how and if off-site reference is being utilized in academic libraries in order to provide a snapshot of current and past off-site reference trends. Broken down into four section, the poster will look at the four questions asked of survey participants:
*Those who currently hold off-site reference hours
*Those held off-site reference hours in the past but stopped
*Those who have never held off-site reference hours in the past, but plan to offer them in the future
*Those who have never held off-site reference hours and would not consider it in the future
The poster will present, among other things, how programs were developed, if they were individual or library-wide programs, why programs stopped, and why people werent interested in holding off-site hours.
JODYSPACE1 III - 3 Measuring Anonymity in Academic Virtual Reference How much do librarians really know about the demographics of their virtual reference patrons? The authors of this study staffed virtual reference at the Auraria Library, a multi-institutional academic library in Denver. They sought to discover how much information about identity patrons chose to provide during transactions that were theoretically anonymous. They kept in mind the idea that virtual reference patrons may or may not have quite the same demographics as those that they see at the reference desk or in the library instruction classroom.
To help answer their questions, the authors developed a matrix for collecting and analyzing personal identifiers (such as year in school, non-native English speakers, and majors). The data they gathered helped them and their colleagues to know more about which patron groups chose to reach out for assistance via virtual reference. The authors believe that the matrix and process they have developed can serve as a model for colleagues at any institutions that provide anonymous virtual reference.
JODYSPACE1 III - 4 Roam where you want to: Roving Reference in a Large Public University Embracing the freedom provided by tablet computer technology, librarians in academic libraries all over the country are implementing roving reference programs to better meet the information needs of their students. While each academic library is unique, common forces, such as student enrollment, campus size, and staff resources influence the creation and implementation of roving reference programs. This poster session provides a case study for roving reference in the urban, multi-campus library system of Florida International University. FIU Librarians will discuss the challenges and benefits of roving reference in a large, public university environment. FIU Libraries contains two distinct face-to-face reference models. In addition to the roving program, the larger campus library provides traditional reference desk services, while the smaller campus library relies on a consultation model. Comparative analyses of the two different models within a single university system provide insight regarding how roving reference service meets student needs. Constraints to references services due to staff, budget, space, and time, have prompted FIU librarians to transform reference services while effectively utilizing resources. In responding to student demands for point-of-need, face-to-face services, librarians transform reference interviews into active and personalized library experiences.
JODYSPACE1 III - 5 Using Customized Descriptive Codes and Text Analysis to Measure Service Process and Enhance Value in Virtual Reference Services The number of questions received in the virtual reference service at the Michigan State University Libraries has significantly increased since the service was implemented in 2006. In 2010, an assessment plan was implemented to continually and quantitatively evaluate the service process of virtual reference. To gain a better understanding of how and why the virtual reference service is used, customized descriptive codes are assigned to each virtual reference question to define the types of questions being asked. Preliminary statistical analysis of customized descriptive codes in transcripts from 2009-2010 showed that virtual reference is most often used as a research service point. In 2012, the virtual reference assessment plan will expand to include a qualitative text analysis of a systematic sample of chat and instant messaging transcripts. Such extensive analysis should show how the usability of the MSU Libraries website and the transparency of library services can be improved to enhance the research experience for users of virtual reference. This poster describes the framework and methodology of the virtual reference assessment plan and displays the preliminary analysis and results which confirm the use of virtual reference as a valid and valued research service point.
JODYSPACE1 III - 6 Captive Audiences: The rather snarky Stall Street Journal and student outreach In April 2010, the University of West Florida Libraries Marketing & Outreach Committee launched its bathroom newsletter with rather snarky Name-This-Newsletter Contest guidelines and graffiti-like graphics (e.g., sharpie writing warned students that cuss wds=disqualified). Receiving an overwhelming response of 339 entries, the Stall Street Journal continued in success with its zany style and subculture-type references. Demand for the back issues led to its archive on the library website, and one professor even stated she used the newsletter as a gauge to see if her students came to the library and if they were they staying long enough.
The steady following is evidenced by email feedback to the author, student participation in publicized activities, and website hits. While the medium of a library bathroom newsletter is not unique, per se, the Stall Street Journal is published with nearly full freedom of content given to its creators: a reference librarian with a creative writing degree and a fine arts photoshop-guru billing coordinator. It makes use of the talent in-house (a rewarding outlet for both staff); retains an uncompromised tone; and promotes services, new collections, and publishes student voices in a narrative full of mischief meant to entertain and inform.
JODYSPACE1 III - 7 You tweetin @ me? Social Media in ARL Libraries - Hype or Reality? The integration of social media tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, to promote library resources, services and programming, has been widely documented in academic, public, and special libraries. Surveys released in the last few years indicate increasing numbers of academic libraries embracing this trend, including ARL Libraries. So what does it really mean when an ARL Library reports that it is using social media? The library has a social media account? On what services - Facebook, Twitter, or something else? Is the social media presence integrated with the Library website, or is it only findable in the social media tool? How often are accounts updated? What information is delivered using social media? Weve conducted an in-depth content analysis of 115 ARL Libraries, examining their social media presence. This poster session reports research results that provide objective insight on what social media tools ARL Libraries are using, and how those tools are being used - or not used. Whats the reality behind the trend? What common threads exist for libraries looking to improve their social media presence?
JODYSPACE1 III - 8 Tracking Tweets: Engage in Conversation about your Library on Twitter Get an uncensored look at what people are saying about your library and provide responsive service using Twitter. For two years, tweets about and to a library Twitter account have been responded to, saved, and analyzed, revealing attitudes towards the library that were previously unknown. Once the library Twitter account began responding to tweets, the tweets about the library increased as did the number of the account followers (up 500%). By the third semester of an active and responsive Twitter presence, a student journalist named the library Twitter account a campus legend. This poster session will showcase Twitter as a dynamic platform to respond to patron complaints, praises, and general musings. Particularly notable are the changes the library made after complaints were tracked via Twitter, such as increasing the speed of the wireless Internet, adjusting building temperatures, and addressing noise issues. Attendees will learn how users become willing to share their experiences when they know they will receive a response. Methods of tracking, crafting responses, and time management will also be presented.
JODYSPACE1 III - 9 Give Them What They Want, Not What We Assume They Need: Developing a User-Centric Mobile Library Website Learn about the user studies Georgia State University Library conducted to guide the included features on its librarys mobile website, and gain tips for engaging in user-centric design of your own mobile site. Poster presentation will include data used to inform the mobile site content (drawn from a user survey of undergraduates, graduates, and faculty on the desired features for a mobile library site as well as Google analytics), graphical shots of the mobile site, marketing of the mobile site, and post-development user study data (yet to be conducted at this juncture) to inform any redesign/adaptations of the mobile site.
JODYSPACE1 III - 10 What Your Library Can Do For You and What You Can Do For Your Library: Baby Boomers The Branch Manager of the Clairemont Library, in San Diego, CA, was selected for the Eureka Leadership Institute and the Transforming Life after 50 Fellowship in 2010. As a result, the Clairemont Library received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the California State Library to create programs and volunteer opportunities for Baby Boomers in the Clairemont area of San Diego. An Advisory group consisting of staff from five libraries and organizations such as Parks and Recreation and San Diego County Aging & Independence Service was formed. Surveys were distributed and focus groups held in order to determine what pilot programs should be planned for Baby Boomers. The five participating libraries held a total of 23 programs between June and August 2011. A Technology Fair for Older Adults was held in May. A spreadsheet of volunteers willing to offer adult programs was created and posted online for San Diego Public Library employees. The Clairemont Library held 16 programs presented by volunteers. Volunteers and program attendees were surveyed to determine the impact of the grant. The poster will contain pictures of events, event flyers, and graphs and charts.
JODYSPACE1 III - 11 Invisible Wounds, Invisible Warriors How Can Libraries Meet the Needs of These Students? Approximately two million veterans are returning from conflicts in Afghanistan and IraqOperation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 has drawn many veterans to colleges and universities. When these veterans arrive on campus approximately one-third will have symptoms of a mental health or cognitive conditions (invisible wounds). The military culture fosters tough, persistent leaders who push through many circumstances to accomplish their objectives. These veterans often have difficulty accepting that they may have a "disability" and may not disclose this possibility to either themselves or others. Added to this, they will often prefer not to disclose their military experience, choosing to keep that part of their life a secret. Their needs and their experience may remain invisible. This poster presentation provides insight into the culture of these veterans and ways to provide better service.
JODYSPACE1 III - 12 Meet Art! The Deschutes Public Library offers a unique childrens art program called Meet Art! This poster session will explore the variety of ways you can create art programs in and out of the library on a particular artist such as Jackson Pollock. A book list, webliography, and bright colorful samples of art projects will be on view. You can create your own art museum in the library! By using picture, non-fiction, poetry, biographies and other books, children explore an artist and his work followed by creating their own masterpiece. Meet Art is provided in the library as a series or in the schools as an individual program. Experience an art adventure that you, too, can do at your library.
JODYSPACE1 III - 13 Outreach and Engagement: 45,000 Troops Are Coming To an Academic Library Near You! A recent article in Time Magazine (11/21/2011) stated: 45,000 troops are coming home to a country that does not know them. For veteran students who will be starting or returning to academic institutions across the country, there are frequently significant challenges that impact their ability to achieve academic success, including: academic preparedness, social acceptance, wide-ranging health concerns, and perceived anonymity on campus.
At Indiana University-Bloomington, the Office of Veteran Student Services (VSS) and Libraries Reference Services Department have partnered in an innovative program that provides a welcome community to several hundred veteran students, in order to assist with their transition to academic life. The VSS is centrally located in the Indiana Memorial Union, which is an energized hub of campus activity. Every week, a reference librarian holds office hours in the VSS student lounge, and provides one-on-one library research assistance to undergraduate and graduate veteran students. Additionally, a librarian and other campus representatives participate in an academic course entitled First Year Veterans Experience, designed to support the transition of veterans to higher education. The poster will demonstrate a growing campus dialog, aimed to assist veteran students with reaching their individual goals and achieving academic success.
JODYSPACE1 III - 14 School Library Services Offered to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Teachers The purpose of this study was to explore the type of services school librarians provide to students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and the teachers of students with ASD. A mixed-method research design was implemented by using an online survey. The participants of this study consisted of 508 school librarians in the United States. Slightly more than half (51% ) of the participants felt that they were familiar with autism resources. A majority of the respondents (90%) said that they personally offer services to students with ASD. Furthermore, a majority (65%) of the participants did not provide special services to teachers of students with ASD. However, school librarians who are mentors, or have a graduate degree, or a degree in librarianship are more likely to provide special services to teachers. A summary of the services offered to students with ASD and their teachers is provided.
JODYSPACE1 III - 15 Stories for Learning, Laptops for Growing Central Washington University's James E. Brooks Library was the recipient of an $18,000 grant funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The Brooks Library provided students and community members targeted/dedicated access to laptop computers, books, electronic resources, and trained staff to help them search, identify, and apply for, employment. While performing their employment searches, their children were engaged with story hour and early childhood literacy embedded learning kits. The whole family was served in a supportive environment with the primary goal of connecting employees with future employers. As an example of how academic libraries can serve their larger communities beyond campus our library staff and faculty reached out of academia to collaborate with local and regional non-library agencies and organizations to better serve the needs of the community during this period of high unemployment. Presentation will include photos, excerpts of feedback, and samples of literacy kits.
JODYSPACE1 III - 16 Summertime Science o In 2010 the Wilsonville Public Library added an exciting new element to summertime: Science! Building on the successful model of our Summer Reading Program, we added several engaging science components including a Science Activity Log, weekly Preschool Stories and Science sessions, and hands-on Tabletop Science Activities. Each participant also received a Science Activity Guidebook with suggested experiments and explorations. The program is designed to make science fun and accessible to all families and to prevent the slide in student science and math knowledge that occurs over the summer. Summer Science has strong appeal to community partners and to funders. Our Poster Session will include printed components of the program, activity instructions and samples, and planning strategies, along with paricipation results, comments from kids and parents, and excerpts from the research that inspired us to make science for kids an integral part of summer at the library.
JODYSPACE1 III - 17 Uncommon Reading for the Undead: Librarians Promoting Literacy One Book at a Time Academic Libraries are increasing involvement in common reading programs and first year experience courses. At the University of Florida, librarians have the opportunity to participate in Uncommon Reading programs through the Honors College. These one-credit courses focus on one book for one semester. This gives faculty the opportunity to develop learning environments that engage students with a variety of literacies including information literacy, media literacy, and technology literacy.
This session will detail one such course, Uncommon Reading for the Undead, which was designed and taught by a librarian at the Marston Science Library. This course utilized frameworks for 21st century literacy proposed by Jenkins (2006) by employing an affinity culture (zombies) which was already very popular on campus. Centering around Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), the course engaged students in collaborative team-based learning, critical thinking, creative media production, and collective communication. Technology and library organization skills integrated seamlessly into the course assignments in the form of wikis, concept maps, project management plans, multimedia projects, and technology activities. This session will share qualitative evaluation of the experience from both the student and librarian perspectives, as well as outline the syllabus, assignments, and innovative learning plans.
JODYSPACE1 III - 18 You Dont Have to Be in DC: Reading Resources from the Smithsonian Since 1998, educators at the National Museum of American History have been presenting programs that integrate language arts and history. The programs began with on-site OurStory festival days for local families, and then transitioned to reach a national audience of over 10,000 visits per month through free online resources.
The resources are targeted toward learners grades K-8, with a special emphasis on K-4, and are designed for learning in classrooms and at home. Overall, the OurStory site includes more than 100 activities, organized into sixteen themes. Each theme uses a trade publication, such as Martins Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, as the starting point for learning about history and then expands the learning through online explorations, hands-on activities, artifact investigations, and local field trips.
Meet a Smithsonian educator to find out more about these web resources, the strategies the museum uses to integrate reading and history, and ways you can share these ideas and activities with your patrons. Watch short video testimonials from teachers, parents, and librarians who have used the resources. Browse sample activities and peruse screenshots of the site and photographs of families enjoying the activities. Pick up free bookmarks and stickers to help spread the word.
JODYSPACE1 III - 19 Catching the Wave: Using a Milestone to Reach New Audiences Throughout Pepperdine Universitys 75th anniversary year, the University Libraries have supported efforts to celebrate and promote the universitys heritage. The special collections department has moved beyond the typical borders of the library and reached into all areas of university life, becoming a key player in these initiatives. The department has planned events, contributed to displays, developed new physical and digital collections, and provided materials for publications and media productions. These efforts have fostered partnerships with various departments across campus, greatly increasing the visibility and use of the special collections.
In this poster, the presenters will utilize photographs, screenshots, and charts to showcase the various initiatives librarians developed and contributed to the celebration. They will share a short anniversary video that incorporates newly digitized still and moving images from the archives. The presentation will also touch on methods for evaluating the success of anniversary initiatives, such as usage statistics and collection growth.
After attending the session, participants will be inspired to identify milestones in their own communities and institutions that will benefit through the use of archival materials and library resources. They will have concrete ideas for leveraging resources, utilizing technology, developing collections, and reaching a wider audience during milestone celebrations.
JODYSPACE1 III - 20 Loving Literacy: Teen Parents Making Books That Their Children Will Adore Young children in teen parent families are at high risk for inadequate early literacy experiences. When teen parents make their own original picture books they are inspired to read and share books more often with their children. As an added bonus, teen parents who have personal literacy challenges gain an intuitive understanding of the basic structures of story from the inside out. Teen parent bookmaking events have taken place in libraries, high school classrooms, and with community partner groups. Through photos, examples, and a hands-on activity, learn how to use simple materials and book formats to encourage these special teens to express their creativity and make a lasting gift that they and their children will cherish. Comments and feedback from the teen parents themselves demonstrate the efficacy of these projects.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 1 Language Acquisition through an ESL Book Club: A Cross-departmental Collaboration at the University of North Texas The University of North Texas hosts an annual intensive English language institute each summer. In July 2011, over 50 students from a partner university in Mexico attended. Among the available activities was a book club led by a library science graduate student. In the book club, students explored the differences between Mexican and American public and academic libraries. Short stories, poetry, and a trip to a local bookstore engaged students in language acquisition and acculturation to the written words place in overall United States culture. This session focuses on the cross-departmental collaboration that made the book club possible and the program outcome with lessons learned for an improved program in 2012.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 2 Going Mobile The number of mobile smart phone users within the last few years has exploded. Mobile phones are suddenly not just for calling anymore, they are for creating work schedules, reading newspapers and eBooks, locating the closest coffee shop and finding out if your library has a book title. It is clear that we are not only moving into a digital world, but a mobile world. Many libraries are beginning to develop mobile services and resources in order to reach out to their patrons on their medium of choice.
The Dr. John Archer Library at the University of Regina began research on developing mobile services during the summer of 2011. The library used various tools to research the needs of library patrons and how they would like to interact with the library in a mobile setting. The Library launched the University of Reginas first mobile site in September, 2011, inspiring other departments within the university community to be innovative with mobile technologies.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 3 Gringos at the Guadalajara International Book Fair: A First-Time Perspective from Two ALA-FIL Free Pass Recipients Two first-time ALA-FIL Free Pass Program recipients will present an overview about their experiences attending the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2011. The book fair is held annually in late November to early December. More than 100 ALA members participated in 2011 thanks to the collaborative ALA-FIL Free Pass Program. This poster session will provide information and tips on how to apply for a scholarship to attend the 2012 Guadalajara International Book Fair.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 4 City University of New York (CUNY) Librarians in China: An Exchange Program with 2 Universities in Shanghai Over the course of 2 years, 8 librarians from the City University of New York (CUNY) traveled to Shanghai, China to participate in a library faculty exchange program. At the same time, librarians from Shanghai University and Shanghai Normal University traveled to New York City and worked at various CUNY college campuses. This poster illustrates some reflections and observations from librarians from 6 different CUNY college campuses. Reflections include language barriers, censorship and information access issues, collection development issues for academic libraries under communist China, educational requirements for librarians in China, as well as issues relating to student culture and their relationship to the academic library in China.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 5 Creando Enlaces: A Baja & Southern California Conference to Expand Library Borders The San Diego Public Library, Serra Cooperative Library System, LIBROS, Reforma, San Diego State University, Friends of the Logan Heights Library, and ABIBAC (Baja California Library Association) collaborated to plan a conference in San Diego, CA on January 13th and 14th 2012. The Serra Cooperative Library System and the San Diego Library wrote and received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the California State Library to host the conference. The first day of the conference included presentations on Literacy, Bookmobile Outreach, Programming, Innovations in Libraries, Bilingual Book Authors, Collection Development, and Latino Leadership in relation to libraries in Baja and Southern California. The second day of the conference included poster session presentations in the morning and visits to a San Diego Public library, San Diego County library and an academic library. Participants continued collaboration, discussion, and exchange of ideas through a listserv. The goals were for participants to put at least one idea into practice at their libraries that they learned about at the conference, to introduce participants to the Sister Library concept and different public service approaches. Participants evaluated the conference by participating in pre and post conference surveys. The poster will contain pictures of the conference, pictures from the different libraries who participated, pictures of the poster sessions, graphs of the results of the surveys, and relevant handouts.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 6 The starting point is the satisfaction of the users preferences in order to reach integration, innovation and information for all. The poster shows the results of a study carried out in the public libraries of the city of Havana during the year 2010. Its aim was to know the preferences and interests in the matter of reading of those who attend to the libraries. The objective is to take advantage of these data to make new work projections for the years 2011 to 2013. This investigation takes as antecedent another similar studies carried out in the years 2004 and 2007 that were presented to the poster session of IFLA Congress held in Buenos Aires and Qubec.
The present study besides to upgrade and to enrich to the previous ones, add new and interesting data that allow to elaborate new strategies and to design projects to improve the information services, the promotion of the reading, the development of the collections and also to improve the cultural programming, as well as the quality of the life of those who attend to our units of information. The starting point is the satisfaction of the users preferences in order to reach integration, innovation and information for all.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 7 Linking Libraries to Help Haiti In January 2011, the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Orange County Library Association (OCLA) of California raised funds to help a Haitian library devastated in the earthquake. Upon ALAs recommendation, the library selected for help was the Centre Culturel Pypoudre in Port-au-Prince because it served children and adults from the general population.
During the four week campaign, library users and staff from public, school and academic libraries throughout Orange County donated 25 cents for fabric or paper links on which to write their name. Every link represented a wish for the rebuilding of Haitis libraries. Each link was joined to build each librarys chain, and on February 18, all libraries chains were connected.
The final chain of hope was an enormous 8,871 links from 24 libraries and many individuals. The total raised was $2,217, four times OCLAs initial goal. Every penny donated was designated for the library of Centre Culturel Pyepoudre in Port-au-Prince.
The simple fundraiser helped Haitis readers, gave our children and adults a way to express support, connected multi-type libraries in Orange County in a common effort, and raised the profile of OCLA within the broader library community.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 8 Vancouver Public Library Forum with the Elders: A Collaborative Approach to Developing a Library Collection with Aboriginal Peoples Though the Vancouver Public Library has a tradition of including aboriginal authors in its collections and programs, feedback from the community suggested that the library was not relevant enough to aboriginal peoples. Using Community-Led Libraries techniques, librarians were assigned the task of developing a collection with direct input from the community. During regular visits to community spaces, librarians were able to cultivate relationships with individuals and gathered advice to help build the new collection. After months of working in the community, the library was able to partner with First Nations groups and organized a forum with Elders. Given the important role that Elders play in aboriginal cultures, the opportunity to connect with them and learn from their insights was invaluable. While sharing a meal, the Elders took the opportunity to speak to the librarians about what they liked about the library, what barriers kept them from using the library, and what we could do to make it a more welcoming place. The result of this exercise was a newly-built collection that has been selected with extensive involvement from the community. Additionally, staff learned invaluable lessons by listening to and developing relationships with the community through direct interaction.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 9 Catch a Falling Star and Put it in Your Pocket: Pocket libraries in rural Ethiopia, a Collaboration Between the United States Board on Books for Young People and the Segenat Foundation. Following a very successful workshop on the production of cloth books in the local language conducted by Anne Pellowski, United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY), at the Segenat Children and Youth Library in Mekelle, Ethiopia, the Segenat Foundation has joined with USBBY to produce cloth Pocket Libraries that have been distributed to rural areas of Ethiopia. With a literacy rate of 42.7% (50.3% male; 35.1% female), it is imperative that books written in local languages are introduced as widely as possible to pre-school and elementary school-aged children. What better method than a cloth Pocket Library, each colorful pocket filled with books written in the local language of the children? Representatives of both USBBY and the Segenat Foundation will be available for demonstration of both the cloth books and the Pocket Libraries.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 10 The Power of Student Involvement: International Students in Academic Libraries Incoming international students often need more assistance in order to conduct efficient library research. This poster presents a set of interactions between the academic librarian, instructors, and international students at UMBC which targeted improvement of students library research skills. It includes customized instruction sessions which were based on student surveys and library tutorials with Prezi software which were designed with international student participation. International students with disabilities were involved in the tutorial design. The tutorials became well accepted and used by domestic students too. Students engagement in library sessions and tutorial design helped them to gain personal confidence in the beginning of their studies in the U.S.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 11 Think Globally, Act Globally: U.S. China Librarian Collaboration This project is a partnership to enhance communications and relations between American and Chinese public librarians; it is part of The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Service from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2012. This poster explores how the project has benefitted the US librarians and what we have learned from the project.
The project started by having US librarians visiting Chinese libraries. We have had 40 US librarians visited 17 libraries in China through two and half years. The visits have considerably broadened horizons in library operation and management and gave US librarians a new perspective on library services. . Additionally, we have cooperated with 17 libraries and organizations in the US to host Chinese librarians for observation and tours. On one hand, the cooperation had tremendously enhanced the professional communication among US libraries and librarians. On the other, the Chinese partners have asked valuable questions and have been curious about many aspects of U.S. library management. The poster will present an overview of the project and will focus on common themes and lessons learned.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 12 The 100th Year of the Republic, a Classical Time for Reading- 108 organizations promoted reading Chinese ancient classics The National Library is committed to promote a reading climate, actively designed innovative reading services, basing on our vision, carry out the SWOT analysis followed by the formulation of relevant strategies and specific plans bringing about "The 100th Year of the Republic, a Classical Time for Reading series of activities.
"The 100th year of the Republic, a Classical Time for Reading series of activities organized by the National Central Library brought together 108 cultural and educational institutions and foundations. From September to December 2011 organized and promoted reading appreciation of classical works and ancient life style aesthetics. It attracted more than 60,000 participants taking part in more than 200 diverse activities across the country. Foundations, publishers and government agencies also donated 3,000 books to 50 public libraries and 20 high school libraries. Funds sponsored by civic groups amounted to more than 20, 000 US$. 95% of the participants expressed great satisfaction with the activities. Major news media of Taiwan reported the various activities. This event is the first ever reading promotion activity in the history of Taiwan that gathered the most number of organizations to cooperate, that took place during the longest time span and that had the most number of participants. It is also the most successful of this year's reading promotion activities.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 13 Title: All Chat, But What's the Conversation?Subtitle: Learning from virtual reference usage data in Canadian universities Ask a Librarian is a collaborative virtual reference service coordinated by the Ontario Council of University Libraries that serves nearly 190,000 students across nine campuses. This poster will visualize data collected and analyzed during the first eight months of Ask a Librarians operation, paying special attention to patterns of service use, question types and user demographics, and highlight possible implications of these findings for library service planning, staffing, and delivery. For example, distinct virtual usage trends across the weeks of an academic term can inform decisions around staffing of other library services, and even for the hiring of seasonal library staff.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 14 From ALA to ALIA: Conference mentoring in Australia Can a model used successfully for over a decade in the American context be transplanted to the Australian environment?
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has a proud history of new graduate activity and innovation. The New Librarians Symposium has been running successfully on a biennial basis for a decade, and the new graduate movement is strong. The researcher, an active new graduate and member of the New Generation Advisory Committee (NGAC), recognised there was a gap in support for new graduates at large plenary conferences. A colleague in NGAC who attended ALA Annual in 2008 brought back the idea of conference mentoring, a program used successfully by the ALA New Members Round Table (NMRT) for many years. After applying for and winning the ALIA Study Grant in 2010, the researcher implemented a trial of conference mentoring at ALIAs largest conference, ALIA Information Online, in Sydney in February 2011. This poster will summarise the findings of the trial, highlighting modifications to the program and differences noted in implementing conference mentoring in a local context.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 15 When Action Library meets Dining CartFMichelin-Starred Chef Table Service with Books of Love To increase the use of library resources and help students cultivate reading habit, we took the initiative to start the so-called gMichelin-Starred Chef Table Service: Reading Dining Cart,h a kind of catering service for students and teachers alike on Friday noon break. To make it a real dining cart, we also provide free tea and refreshments for those who come to us. The Michelin-Starred Chefs are volunteered by a group of avid book-loving students, responsible for selecting weekly specials along many other appetizing reading delicacy. Chefs are supposed to recommend their favorite books individually. End of the semester, we hold a gBest Book Recommendationh activity to the Michelin-Starred Chef for her contribution to this activity. We are firmly convinced that there is none who doesnft love to read; there are only those whose passion for books are yet to be kindled. To reach a wider readership, we also publish the gLavatory Library Journal,h prepare the quick-fix in-class reading kit, and invite famous authors to make speeches. With the concerted effort, our checking-out rate rises from 2.72 per person a year to 10.76.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 16 IREXs Impact Group: Developing the sustainability of Romanian public libraries at work Biblionet, the Global Libraries Program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, implemented in Romania by the IREX Foundation will end in 2014. The IREXs initiative is composed of 15 Biblionet County Coordinators volunteers.
Their mission is to create viable conditions for future sustainability of public libraries after Biblionet is completed, therefore, the name, Impact Group. Its major objective is to improve community life through the services of efficiently run public libraries.
Some of their current actions include collecting computer usage statistical data, identifying the unique ways local communities utilize technology to resolve every day issues, celebrating public libraries success stories about its impact within local communities, recognizing other unique uses the community might have of current technology while minimizing replication, and creating library guides to train peer librarians on how to respond to users needs while staying within the current budgetary guidelines during these uncertain economic times.
It is important for Romanian librarians to present their libraries as places for everyone in which solutions for everyday issues can be found. The Impact Group works at marketing the Romanian public libraries and selecting the information to share with local public authorities to develop funding and local support.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 17 The Nationwide E-Book Online Service through Public Libraries in Taiwan National Taichung Library (NTL), a national public library in Taiwan, and public libraries throughout Taiwan have been working hard and closely together to improve the environment and services of public libraries to promote reading. The nationwide E-Book Online Service (EBOS) was created to improve existing service of public libraries to help users more easily engage in e-reading.
NTL has long played a key role as a coordinator library to help guide the development of more than 510 public libraries of different types. EBOS is one of the nationwide public library services that NTL coordinated to implement. It was officially launched in 2009, serving as a single service platform of traditional Chinese character e-book for public libraries to serve users who possess physical library cards in any public library to register as a member to borrow e-books at anytime and anywhere.
This proposed poster will present the service structure of EBOS and the statistics from EBOS about the distribution of e-books held in different subjects, users and e-books checked-out in different geographical areas from the years 2009 to 2011. A series of photos and tables will illustrate the efforts put to overcome the challenges of the digital divide.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 18 Can I Have the Rest of Your Fries? Fitness Comes to the Library Diabetes is a major concern in the Middle East region, with the State of Qatar ranking among the most affected countries. Northwestern University in Qatar Library maximized on a national campaign to combat diabetes through diet and lifestyle awareness by collaborating with the Department of Student Affairs to host Destination: Fitness!, a university-wide contest that rewarded overall fitness progression during a month-long period. Commencing after the Holy Month of Ramadan 2010, it was the major event in a semester-long library theme centered on food and culture.
As food plays a celebratory role in many of the 20+ cultures represented by students at the small institution, weaving the historical study of cuisine, family tradition, and the modern lifestyle of our patrons seemed natural. The Food for Thought theme was part of a plan to deepen collaborative efforts and encourage library use by all constituents. It kicked off with statistics and further reading peppered about to peak curiosity. Gastronomic films silently played on the library plasma screen as a constant background visual.
Success was measured by comment forms and a statistical determination of fitness participants versus overall FTE, further broken down by those that completed the program. Health-related reference queries also increased.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 19 The World is Theirs: Supporting our Students as They Study Abroad. This poster will describe a new collaboration between a study abroad office and academic library at a small, rural university. It will outline the three ways that academic libraries can support students going abroad: by providing general information about traveling abroad, offering specific country information, and supporting student research while abroad. The poster will also discuss the three outreach methods to provide this support to study-aboard students: in-person meetings with students before they travel abroad, collection development of travel guides, and the development of electronic research guides for traveling abroad. This information will be communicated through bullet points, screenshots and pictures.
At the time of the poster presentation, this collaboration will be assessed by qualitative feedback from the campus study abroad administrators and students participants. It will also be accessed through website analytics for the electronic research guides, attendance records for the instruction sessions, and the number of reference services provided to students abroad. This information will be communicated through screenshots and graphs.
JODYSPACE1 IV - 20 Building an Offline "Library in a Box" for Developing Countries In developing countries such as Liberia, Internet access is slow, unstable, and expensive. To download a pdf can take more than a day. Our poster reviews the EAKO System (Engineering Access to Knowledge Offline) project, to develop a sustainable program to deliver and make available engineering content and training materials on high capacity hard drives without Internet access. This project reviews a prototype product developed for the University of Liberia. The idea for our offline library came from TEEAL (www.teeal.org), a library in a box for agriculture, developed by Cornell University. Offline libraries such as EAKO and TEEAL provide access to research information without Internet access. The open source solution we have created using xtf from the California Digital Library can be used for other disciplines and resources.
JODYSPACE1 V - 1 A Natural Fit: Librarian and Academic Support Services Collaborative Assessment of Student Needs for Writing Intensive Classes In the Fall of 2011, the University of South Carolina Aiken instituted a new writing intensive (WI) requirement for all new students. The WI requirement stipulates students must take three WI classes beyond their freshman composition sequence. Based on this new campus initiative, the Coordinator of Instruction at the Gregg-Graniteville Library and the Coordinator of Tutoring at the Academic Success Center formed a collaborative partnership to perform an assessment of WI syllabi to identify the support needs of students in WI designated courses. The purpose of the assessment was to review the scheduled writing assignments and determine the probable "Zones of intervention," (Kulthau, 2004) where the coordinators could collaborate with teaching faculty to ultimately promote higher quality student writing and research. This poster will examine the results of the assessment and share next steps for the collaboration. This project will be of interest to academic librarians and anyone involved in academic support initiatives.
JODYSPACE1 V - 2 Collaborating for Online Student Success: A Librarian-Faculty Partnership Prior research has highlighted collaboration between librarians and faculty as a crucial factor in the thoughtful integration of library resources and embedded librarians into curriculum. Integration of information literacy instruction in online education necessitates such collaboration due to differences in skill sets of online faculty and librarians, the advance instructional planning involved, and the needs of online students who might be unfamiliar with digital resources. This qualitative study describes different types of collaboration between a faculty member and a librarian over two years, from embedded librarians in an individual graduate course to curriculum-specific library instruction in an online program. Semi-structured interviews with the faculty member and the librarian highlighted the benefits for all stakeholders, challenges of such collaboration, and increased understanding for the role and value of the other. Utilizing domain analysis, cover terms were discovered, clarifying the data from the interviews and allowing a deeper understanding of the process involved to develop collaborative instruction. Based on this research and student surveys on effectiveness of instruction, we present suggestions for effective faculty-librarian collaboration at the course/program-level, along with a process for identifying mutual needs, designing and implementing collaborative instruction, and communicating and resolving interdisciplinary differences for online courses/programs.
JODYSPACE1 V - 3 The Creative Class Meets Here: Building a Coworking Community in an Academic Library The future of the workplace is changing and evolving, with independent workers and entrepreneurs becoming a growing segment of our economy. No matter what their major field of study, our college students may find themselves needing or wanting to create their own jobs in the future. At the same time, the academic library is struggling with its identity as students expect to do much of their research online. At best, libraries are seen by many students as a place to go while they are in school, but not as a place they might go for a lifetime.
Coworking communities are collaborative spaces where independent workers, entrepreneurs, and professionals with workplace flexibility, are able to work independently or collaboratively, as needed. By inviting these individuals into the academic library, we demonstrate the value of the creative class to our local economy, model entrepreneurial behavior for our students, and show how the library can be a place of value for ones lifetime.
Our aim with this project is to encourage student, faculty and entrepreneur collaboration and interaction, while showing new ways to imagine the academic library space. Surveys will be used to measure initial and subsequent attitudes among all three constituent groups.
JODYSPACE1 V - 4 Won't You Be My Neighbor: Outreach to the Next Generation of Residence Halls When the largest residence hall system in the country embarks on a major project to profoundly impact student success, how does the library get involved? In 2011, Michigan State University, with over 40,000 students and 25 undergraduate residence halls, introduced a new concept in dormitories: residence halls were remodeled, reorganized into "neighborhoods," and "engagement centers" were piloted - areas designed for students to meaningfully interact with the campus community. The ultimate goal was to impact students academically, interculturally, and through health and wellness initiatives, identify at-risk students early and increase graduation rates. Michigan State University Libraries, recognizing an institutional priority and an opportunity to impact student research, was an early participant in this grand experiment. This poster assesses early attempts to build a neighborhood engagement library program - from publicity and hours for roving reference, to strategic partnerships and workshops with other campus services such as the Writing Center. Learn what worked and what did not, and how a similar program could be implemented at other institutions.
JODYSPACE1 V - 5 Webinars Made Great: Preparing Trainers and Users for Web-Based Learning In early 2010, the Environmental Protection Agencys National Library Network launched a webinar-based training program. Sessions are hosted by the Library Networks coordination team, taught by EPA librarians, and offered to EPA employees and contract staff. Topics are often based on librarian expertise and popular user requests. While many librarians in the Network have stepped forward to volunteer, others are hesitant because they lack experience with webinar technology. User participation is robust and ever-growing. We'll explore the challenges encountered in providing training in a virtual environment, frequent questions and troubleshooting methods that we have engaged in to help users overcome the obstacles that sometimes prevent attendees from fully engaging in sessions. To take a very successful program to even greater success, the Library Network coordination team is developing and implementing Train the Trainer sessions to dispel the myths and mystery surrounding webinar technology, and Train the User sessions to pre-brief users on the intricacies of online learning and prepare them for the best possible outcomes.
JODYSPACE1 V - 6 Utilization of Evidence-Based Practice Resources by Junior Level Nursing Students The aim of this research project was to increase utilization of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources by 25% among junior level students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing (SON) over a three month period in the spring semester. Using a quality improvement model, librarians from the Briscoe Library in collaboration with nursing faculty introduced an intervention that included an intensive library resources class and also emphasized methods of library access. Through collaborative efforts these interventions were incorporated into the students research course, requiring student completion of an EBP research project. By using standard quality improvement tools, improvement in student EBP knowledge was measured through surveys of self-reported utilization and satisfaction conducted at different time points during the course, i.e., before (pre-test), mid-point and following (post-test). Data from this project indicate that a collaborative intervention between SON faculty and the Library Services librarians can help enhance the nursing students utilization of EBP resources. The long term ramification of the students increased knowledge, satisfaction and utilization of EBP resources may influence the adaptation of EBP information into the clinical setting, improving the quality of patient care.
JODYSPACE1 V - 7 Information Literacy: Working Outside the Curriculum to Work Your Way In Integrating information literacy into a universitys curriculum can be a formidable challenge for any library. This poster session will show how one library constructed and marketed a drop-in workshop series to the university community. The series became an easy solution to incorporate information literacy into individual courses while taking first steps to institutionalize information literacy. Drop-in tours and workshops can complement course instruction without taking up class time for both students and faculty. This series was offered both online and on-campus at different times of day and night to accommodate traditional, online, hybrid, graduate and commuter students. Surveys were used to collect feedback from faculty and students. Participation levels, survey results, and marketing materials will be displayed.
JODYSPACE1 V - 8 Exploring Consumer Health Information Needs in Action, Emotion, and Cognition: A Content Analysis of Questions in Social Q&A Site Consumer Health Information (CHI) seeking on the Internet is becoming more popular, yet very complex as Social Q&A services emerge. In this environment, CHI seekers ask instead of search for answers. Kuhlthaus Information Search Process (ISP) model reveals a constructivist and holistic view of information seeking from the users perspective in six stages, and incorporates three realms of experience: affective, cognitive and physical dimensions. With the ISP model as the theoretical lens that suggests information seeking process is dynamic and active, this study is to content analyze 600 health-related questions in Yahoo! Answers. These questions are pre-identified into eight progressive stages of CHI seeking inspired by Zhangs study, from when healthy, when diagnosed as ill, or after treatment to living with illness, to investigate the characteristics in action, emotion, and cognition. Specific research questions are: (1)How are CHI needs expressed in eight stages within the affective, cognitive, and physical ISP framework? (2) How do these expressions differ in various information seeking stages in terms of clarity, urgency and length? The findings will inform library and information service providers to better understand users CHI needs on the web and to effectively educate CHI consumers in health information literacy.
JODYSPACE1 V - 9 Team Tech Tools: Supporting Group Projects on Campus Group projects are popular assignments to further student learning objectives, but are frequently viewed warily by college students who perceive them as large investments of time with little reward. While the benefits of group work are well-established from a pedagogical perspective, these projects can also lead to a lot of frustration as members try to avoid the pitfalls of working together, including arranging meeting times, sharing information, and maintaining accountability in the creation of content. Even students who feel very comfortable with technology are often unaware of how tools like Google Docs, Doodle, Corkboard Me, Dropbox, and Evernote can be used to facilitate projects.
This poster serves three purposes: to outline some free downloadable and web-based tools that can support the processes of group collaboration in educational environments, to introduce methods of sharing these tools with students and faculty through voluntary workshop series and LibGuides, and to familiarize attendees with resources that may also be used professionally to improve team communication.
JODYSPACE1 V - 10 Tales from the Source: Best Practices for Collaborating with a Non-Library Entity to Create Library Instruction Videos Arg! Avast ye, Mateys! Theres booty to be had on the high seas! Were pirates really the scallywags and neer-do-wells depicted in popular culture? The answers are found in primary documents from the Golden Age of Piracy. But what are primary documents and how can students find them? A team of academic librarians from the Humanities & Social Sciences Library at the University of Florida wanted to answer these questions for library users in a fun, yet informative, way. With the help of a $5,000 grant, the librarians collaborated with the Digital Worlds Institute, a video production company, to create a new video series called Tales from the Source. Episodes from this series would explore the use of primary documents for historical research. After a year of work, two professionally-produced four-minute videos were created: Pyrates: Truth be Told and Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer? This poster will outline the multiple aspects of this project, including the grant application process, the experience of collaborating with a non-library entity, the gradual evolution of the project from early drafts and storyboards to the final products, the marketing and distribution of the videos, and the evaluation process.
JODYSPACE1 V - 11 I Could Tell You Stories: Am I a Librarian or a Social Service Provider? In an age of e-government and digital learning, public libraries must adapt to rapid changes in the literacy and information needs of underserved communities. Queens Library offers a unique approach to literacy development through its Literacy Zones, an initiative spearheaded by the New York State Board of Regents and the State Education Department to bridge the achievement gap and provide a systemic focus on literacy from birth to adulthood. Library users who visit Queens Library Literacy Zones in Long Island City and Far Rockaway (two communities with high concentrations of public housing residents and English language learners) benefit from adult education classes, self-directed learning technologies, and crucial case management support that helps overcome barriers due to inadequate housing, healthcare, financial resources, and opportunities for employment. The role of the Literacy Zone case managers does not simply duplicate social services available in the community, but rather mirrors the role of the 21st-century reference librarian who utilizes emerging technologies and a variety of media to provide information, expertise, and instruction. This poster will present the survey results from both customers and librarians to substantiate the services currently provided at the Literacy Zone. Graphs and tables will be used to display the results.
JODYSPACE1 V - 12 Going on reference safari: Bringing the library to zoo keepers and horticulturalists in their natural habitat San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG) is geographically dispersed, with four campuses spread throughout San Diego County and field sites located worldwide. The library, which serves staff throughout SDZG, is located in a research facility in north San Diego County, making it difficult for many employees to visit the physical library space. Therefore, the library began tracking usage statistics for the first time in the recent past to better understand its patron base. Using a Google Docs spreadsheet, the librarians recorded information on users affiliations, departments, types of interaction, and methods of communication. The statistics confirmed anecdotal evidence that staff and scientists located near the library were the primary users. Additionally, they revealed that two important user groups were under-using the library zoo keepers and horticulturalists. To address this situation, the library will begin providing roving reference by bringing the library to keepers and horticulture staff in break areas at both the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Statistics will continue to be monitored to measure the success of this outreach effort. The results of this outreach initiative will inform future efforts towards improving patron access, specifically to additional user groups identified through usage statistics analysis.
JODYSPACE1 V - 13 Everyone Wins! Reaching Out to Support Study Abroad Increasingly global awareness is an educational goal at many institutions. The Institute of International Education reports that over the past two decades, U.S. student participation in study abroad has more than tripled. The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Library, like most academic libraries, offers resources and services that are potentially helpful for study abroad students and faculty. However, based on discussions with students, there has been a lack of awareness of these resources.
To increase awareness, the OSU Library strengthened communication with the Study Abroad Office. This communication has been a win-win for the library, Study Abroad Office, students and faculty. Several new activities have resulted: (1) library participation in study abroad events such as pre-departure orientation and study abroad fair, (2) targeted marketing materials, (3) increased library holdings, (3) increased communication to faculty coordinators, and (5) periodically offering library space for study abroad displays and presentations.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that students are now utilizing the library resources. In Spring 2012, the library will evaluate the effectiveness of the awareness campaign by analyzing collection data and surveying students and faculty. Results will help plan future efforts to this population. Planned visuals will include marketing materials, photo images, and survey results.
JODYSPACE1 V - 14 Collaborating with Strangers: Libraries as a Catalyst for Creativity Collaborating with Strangers is a series of 6 speed meeting workshops that convened campus faculty graduate and undergraduate students with a goal of creating interdisciplinary connections in a safe and engaging environment. UF Libraries staff partnered with representatives from Arts, Engineering, Science, and the Dean of Students offices to provide marketing support. The sessions featured facilitative methods from the CoLAB Planning Series, a large group facilitative process that supported one-on-one 3-minute focused conversations where workshop participants quickly revealed their passions, skills and resources. An average of 40 participants in each workshop gained valuable opportunities to create personal connections, practice communicating with strangers from other disciplines, and discover hidden assets on campus. The key benefit for participants was that they made connections which otherwise may have required months of conversations to uncover. Post-workshop activities enabled participants to follow-up with strangers they did not meet during their live workshop session. The project was funded by UFs Creative Campus Committees competitive award program ($12,962) which included a budget allocation for external evaluation. This poster will feature descriptions of collaborative facilitation processes and the follow-up online resources designed to foster partnerships across disciplines, and will detail the results of evaluation activities.
JODYSPACE1 V - 15 Collaborative Imperative: How Public and Academic Libraries in Northwest Washington Worked Together to Share Resources and Improve Service Academic libraries (baccalaureate, community college, technical college and tribal) in Whatcom County, Washington have entered into a unique partnership with the city public library and county library system to expand access to library materials and improve services to the community. Whatcom county community members can now borrow materials from any library and return them to any library. They can find out whats available through a joint catalog scope set up in WorldCat. Public library connections have been set up at the academic libraries allowing holds to be picked up and checked out using a self-check machine, effectively creating virtual branches. The libraries have also collaborated on an innovative one book community reading project called Whatcom Reads!. All of this has been done with little money, and more ideas are on the way. Come find out how you can initiate such a collaboration in your community!
JODYSPACE1 V - 16 Blooms & STEMs: Cultivating ethical practice through an online game Librarians at the University of Floridas Marston Science Library take a proactive role in educating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduate students about Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). As part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program, the science library received a two-year grant award to design and develop a video game that would engage STEM graduate students with research ethics. The Gaming Against Plagiarism (GAP) project completes development in Spring 2012 and will be made available as an open source resource for STEM educators and librarians.
This poster maps levels of the game directly to the pedagogical levels in Blooms Taxonomy to demonstrate how scaffolding basic concepts early on in game play can prepare students to face more complex challenges. Games-based learning environments lend themselves to this form of scaffolding, but the pedagogy also transfers well to traditional face-to-face and online information literacy instruction. Utilizing specific content and visual images from the game, this poster connects educational pedagogy to the games intended learning outcomes. Furthermore, results of learning assessments within the game and pre/post tests evaluate the effectiveness of this medium as a teaching tool. The completed game will be available for audience members to play.
JODYSPACE1 V - 17 Assessment of undergraduate research: Student posters across disciplines In our educative role, librarians work with students on the development of research and critical thinking skills as part of a cohesive push towards information literacy. New questions arise, however, with quickly changing expectations and models for publication of undergraduate student work. What role should librarians play in supporting the publication and dissemination of undergraduate scholarly work? The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explored this question in partnership with the Ethnography of the University Initiative, a collaborative, campus-wide project, dedicated to directing and supporting student inquiry on the university. (http://www.eui.illinois.edu/) This assessment project examined the layers of instruction as provided by a new initiative to engage students on the complexities of the scholarly communication process. While librarians use active learning strategies to discuss issues of publication, instruction also included strategies for creating an effective research poster through the development of visual literacy and design skills, consideration of legal and ethical use of images, and issues around submission of work in the local institutional repository. This poster will share qualitative and quantitative data to tell a story about the impact of library instruction on students perception of the publication process.
JODYSPACE1 V - 18 Chat, Chow & Web 2.0: Channeling Technology to Create Alliances Information technology, instructional technology, and library staff members at Saint Marys University of Minnesota are in the midst of the fourth year of a successful faculty and staff development series, Chat, Chow & Web 2.0, hosted in the library. Centered on collaboration and innovation, this series is designed to allow colleagues at a small liberal arts university an opportunity to discuss the scholarship of teaching and learning (Chat), during lunch (Chow), while providing an introduction to new educational technologies (Web 2.0).
Two immediate achievements have resulted from this programming. First, Chat, Chow & Web 2.0 has created a new and inviting way to address the scholarship of teaching and learning. Second, working collaboratively, the library, information technology, and instructional technology staff have built strong alliances, improved communication, and broken down barriers while effectively fulfilling a staff and faculty development need.
The success of this programming can be measured by the positive feedback from attendees, an increase in technology use in the classroom, increasing numbers of attendees, and continuing financial support from administration.
Our session will emphasize the cornerstones of the program, and include a captioned computer slideshow highlighting topics covered, photos, feedback from participants, successes and lessons learned.
JODYSPACE1 V - 19 LibLegis: Library Advocacy Through Legislative Awareness, or Info to the People Legislation can have a significant impact on libraries. While legislative information is freely available, the need for a singular resourcethat is both effective and compellingremains. That is the goal of LibLegis: to provide a simple and engaging resource that increases public awareness of legislation affecting libraries. This poster highlights the design, development, and features of the LibLegis library advocacy tool and its related open source project, as well as the role of LibLegis in the larger scheme of advocacy, collaboration, and community building in librarianship.
JODYSPACE1 V - 20 Fun with Numbers: Opportunities and Challenges in Collecting Library Use Data Gathering consistent statistics across multiple service points is a challenge for many institutions. Penn State uses Desk Tracker for recording reference transactions at 23 campuses, utilizing over 100 access points with over 500 faculty and staff entering data.
In order to meet the challenges provided by the large number of access points and users, as well as the security demands of our IT department, we had to develop policy and procedures that may be of interest to other institutions considering a third party hosted system.
The structure for user names and passwords is being shared with other teams within the Penn State Libraries that are recommending the use of third party hosted software. In that way, the policies and procedures that have been developed can be used within other frameworks. Data can be integrated into an individuals annual review, used in evaluating a units workload and assessing staffing decisions. Results can contribute to data shared with external groups such as ACRL.
A cycle of evaluation and review has been established to continue to refine a process that was begun in Jan 2010. This poster will outline how we met the challenges at each step of development and refinement.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 1 Academic Librarians as Faculty Members: A History and Guide toward the Future This poster will examine the development of modern day academic librarianship, and the gradual transition librarians in the academy made from being staff members to becoming faculty members. Policies from across the United States will be examined, with consideration being given to the rationale for librarians having faculty status. Charts will provide visual representation of the percentage of librarians in the United States with faculty status and without. Attitudes of other faculty members regarding librarians with faculty status will be examined, as will best practices for librarians developing positive collegial relations throughout their university. Finally, attention will be paid to the role faculty librarians will play in the future as we continue to venture forth into the age of digitalization.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 2 Auburn's Awesome Display Year (subtitle: How Auburn University Libraries in 2011 Leveraged Displays to Benefit Marketing, Publicity, and Donor Development This poster session presents a case study of Auburn University Libraries approach to library displays and the impact the displays have had on publicity, community engagement, and library development. In 2011, Auburn University Libraries made a deliberate effort to develop a series of Special Collections and Archives displays oriented toward noteworthy events and anniversaries. Leveraging Special Collections and Archival collections, subject specialist knowledge, and public relations tools, Auburn University Libraries was able to use these displays to as part of its outreach and marketing efforts. The displays highlighted significant donations, eulogized beloved Alabama authors, documented the community response to tragedy, and marked the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Each of these separate displays garnered media attention ranging from local to national in coverage. The media attention in turn brought new scholars and visitors to the libraries, increased campus requests for special collections instruction, and aided library programming and development efforts. Our display strategy can serve as a model to other institutions, including public and special libraries, in how to successfully market library collections to media entities and leverage that attention to positively impact library support and use.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 3 Change without Chaos: Reducing Resistance with Planning and Communication The introduction of any new initiative into an organization may result in resistance, discomfort, or stress among employees. See how one academic library instruction program seamlessly integrated student learning assessment into information literacy sessions with use of a one-year timeline. By providing librarians with ample time and opportunity to recognize the purpose and benefits of assessment, much of the stress and resistance normally associated with change was alleviated. Led by a three-member instruction team, these efforts targeted fellow teaching librarians within the reference department. Strategies for integrating student learning assessment included workshops, the creation of a special LibGuide, and a renewed effort in open communication among colleagues. The workshops incorporated active learning, food, and fun as a means to engage and inspire the participants; the LibGuide provided a place to share ideas; and continual feedback and communication between the instruction team and reference librarians proved vital in the success of this initiative.
This poster will include a chart to illustrate steps within the timeline, photographs and examples of activities from workshops, a screenshot of the LibGuide, and visual representations of what the instruction team and reference librarians have learned about teaching, student learning, and the implementation of a new initiative.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 4 Do You See What I See? Academic Librarians Experiences of Racism This research project uses the framework of microaggressions, which psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines as brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (2010), to investigate academic librarians experiences and observations of racism in the profession.
ResearchersSolorzano, Ceja, and Yosso, as well as Griffin, Pifer, Humphrey, and Hazelwood have already used this framework to investigate the experiences of African American students and faculty members. If college students and faculty of color are encountering race-based microaggressions, it is possible that minority librarians are also experiencing them, which may lead to negative consequences for individuals, including decreased productivity (Sue, 2010), psychological withdrawal and/or physical departures from institutions (Griffin et al, 2011). The academic library profession could also be adversely affected if minority librarians choose to leave not only an institution but also the profession.
The Racial and Ethnic Microaggression Scale (REMS) survey instrument has been modified and academic librarians of all races will be invited to participate in an online survey. This poster will present preliminary findings that survey.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 5 Look Mom, My Names in Print! Lessons Learned From Newly Published Librarians Publishing is required for many tenure-track academic librarians, but the task can seem daunting, especially for those new to the field. While a number of presentations in the past have focused on how to publish from panels of editors and publishers, this poster session offers a visual, specific narrative on how to survive the peer-reviewed publishing process from the perspective of new librarians. This poster highlights how the process can be both turbulent and successful and offers tips and guidance on how to avoid some of the pitfalls of the authors experience. This poster visually illustrates the conception of the authors research study and proceeds through their mistakes, their response to reviewers critiques and their papers eventual acceptance, revision and publication. Veering from traditional formats, this poster session will use graphic-novel style images and text to engage the audience and personalize the narrative. This includes sharing stories and photos that illustrate the various events throughout the authors publishing journey. The visual and honest nature of this poster will give an accurate portrayal of what publishing in todays academic environment entails. Poster session attendees, especially tenure-track librarians, will learn how to successfully navigate the peer-reviewed publishing process.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 6 Merit-Based Evaluation of Academic Librarians Accountability is increasingly important in todays business environment, particularly in a tight job market. University faculty members are pressured to justify their contributions to academia, especially given the publics perception of tenure and job security. Since 2004, the President of Northern Kentucky University (NKU) has mandated that all university faculty/staff raises be merit-based in order to establish a higher level of accountability. In response to this mandate, NKUs Steely Library developed and implemented a point-based merit system for library faculty. This system provides points values for various activities in job performance, scholarly, and service activities. This session will outline the specific activities/values and how they have affected library performance through narrative and charts. The process of the evaluation process will also be outlined. Highlights of the most controversial decisions will be presented as well as a summary of major changes made over the years to improve the process. Over the years, continuous evaluation of the process has taken place with an overall result of increased activity by library faculty in all areas.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 7 Mismanaging Future Managers: Are Library Schools Failing to Adequately Prepare Administrators? Over 1,000 academic, public, school and special librarians responded to a survey about the management education they received during their MLS programs. The aim of the survey was to determine the perception towards management curriculum in library schools from the perspective of practicing professional librarians and information specialists with a masters degree in library science. The survey results reveal a fascinating disconnect between the education librarians wanted while they were students and the education they wish they had received now that they are practitioners. In addition, the results show that practicing librarians perceive a significant deficiency in management training during graduate study which highlights the need for redesigning management courses in library schools to meet the real world demands of today and tomorrow. This poster session will include copies of the survey, graphs of the survey results, and participants comments and suggestions for improving this area of library education. An analysis of the quantitative results were published in the November, 2011 Endnotes Journal. An additional qualitative analysis is included in this presentation.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 8 Publication Patterns of U.S. Academic Librarians from 2003 to 2011 This study examines the contributions of U.S. academic librarians to the peer-reviewed literature of library and information science (LIS), focusing on thirty-two journals. The results will be compared to the results of two similar studies conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago that cover the periods 1993-1997 and 1998-2002. This study provides comparative and benchmark data for publication productivity of academic librarians and for institutional contributions to the literature. It also compares the number of articles produced in the different periods as well as proportion of academic librarian authors and extent of co-authorship.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 9 Using Student Workers for more than shelving books At Northern Arizona Universitys Cline Library student workers are well integrated into the service operations of the library. Knowing that students often prefer to ask questions of a peer, student workers help staff our combined reference/circulation desk with both staff and students. At a very high-volume desk, both staff and students answer reference questions as well as circulation duties. With increased student enrollment and differing communication methods of the current generation, the library saw a need to add chat service to the library. We decided to turn to our students again and have them become an operator for chat. All questions filter to an operator queue where student workers answer general questions and basic reference questions. For more advanced reference questions, the student operator forwards the chat to reference queue where it is answered by a librarian. In this system chat becomes a tiered system with basic questions answered by students, thus freeing up librarians for other duties and giving students an additional way to connect with a librarian.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 10 Training Friendly Student Employees What Works? Student employees are often the first individuals patrons contact when they enter an academic library. These student employees receive extensive training in order to complete tasks like using the circulation system, shelving materials, or processing reserves. However, the training most needed is often neglected: training in customer service. As evidenced by the many discussions about the future of the library as place, we must consider how to make academic libraries as patron-friendly as possible. At small institutions like Westminster College, there is limited staff, limited time, and limited budgets available for training purposes. So how can we effectively train students to be the face of the library? One possibility is training students through the use of various free online tools and technologies.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 11 When the Instruction Coordinator Isn't a Supervisor: How to Foster Change and Continual Improvement by Coordinating, Not Managing Teaching is an intensely personal activity. People adopt a certain teaching style or pedagogy based on their understanding of how people learn and their comfort level with public speaking or the content being taught. Administrators with supervisory authority have a difficult time changing the practices or beliefs of individual educators. It appears to be even more difficult when the librarian in charge of an instructional program is but a peer of his/her colleagues.
However, as documented in educational leadership literature, there is a growing recognition of the power of peer-to-peer interactions in the inculcation of change in an institution.
This poster will document practices adopted by an instruction coordinator that have harnessed the intellectual and emotional energies of the librarians who form the instruction team. These practices include:
peer coaching
peer training highlighting best practices being used by colleagues at the institution
working groups
surveys -- to discover difficulties being faced by colleagues and training desired
These practices allow the coordinator to work as a change agent with the support of the team. They have also fostered a climate of reflection, trust, and collaboration, as demonstrated in the results of a survey administered to team members.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 12 Is Your Web Content Useful, Usable, and Findable? Developing a Content Strategy for Your Library Website Library websites are often the primary method by which users interact with our services and resources, yet often these websites have content that is out of date, poorly written, or irrelevant. Libraries need to be proactive in developing sustainable content strategies for their websites that will ensure their content is useful, usable, and findable.
Historically, at the University of Arizona Libraries, our website content had little oversight in any sort of ongoing way. In 2011, the newly formed Website Steering Group, led by the Website Product Manager, began to develop a practical and sustainable content strategy to address the creation, delivery, and governance of our content. The process began with a content inventory and analysis that brought to light issues of inconsistency, inaccuracy, and duplication. Several hundred pages were deleted or revised as part of this process. Editorial standards were soon developed to ensure ongoing consistency of content. The group then established a content lifecycle workflow, which included processes for the creation, updating, and deletion of content. New roles and responsibilities, along with methods of accountability, were established.
This poster will outline the process we used to develop a content strategy for our library website.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 13 Oooh, Shiny! Adapting services, engaging scholars, and stealing the spotlight with the iPad New technologies offer new opportunities for innovation and engagement. At IPFW, a cohort program put iPads in the hands faculty members and librarians alike. By repurposing trusty library concepts such as information and technological literacy, scholarly communication, and collection curation to fit the paradigm of iPads and apps, we created new collaborations, new educational tools, and a higher profile across our campus. This poster will present the tools we used and the best practices we developed while persuading a new generation of faculty members that teaching, learning, and technology are enhanced when the library is involved.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 14 Putting Content First: Adding Relevancy to your ALA website In our libraries, we often evaluate and assess our librarys website content, but what about the content of our professional organizations website? With the recent migration of ALA.org websites to the content management system, Drupal, the web editors for the Education and Behavioral Science Section (EBSS) of ACRL decided it was time to reevaluate their sections website purpose and content. They review the currency and organization of the webpages, along with the efficiencies of maintaining current information on the main website, wikis, and ALA Connect. The web editors consulted the sections committees to evaluate their use of online space in additional to surveying the sections membership to determine the value they receive from the EBSS website. On the technical side, they evaluated website usage statistics using Google Analytics which revealed how visitors find and use the site. As ALA has hundreds of volunteer web editors and thousands of web pages, this poster session is designed to make both web editors and active members think about their corner of the ALA web (or any professional organization) and create a content strategy that is relevant for their organizations website.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 15 Thinking Critically about Classroom Technologies using the TPCK Framework Librarians who teach often work to integrate new technologies into their instructional practice. Whether the newest technology involves a great new app, a fun website, or a new type of hardware, it can be difficult to determine what technology best supports the learning outcomes that have been established for a specific class. It can also be difficult to determine how this technology can best be leveraged for maximum impact in the classroom. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) is a theoretical framework that can help librarians to select technology to incorporate into the classroom, develop lessons that incorporate this technology, and to reflectively examine the impact of the chosen technology upon student learning. TPCK provides framework for exploring the interaction between the different forms of knowledge that instructors bring to lesson planning, and how the interaction between content, pedagogy, and technology can be focused to encourage student success. Our poster will provide a brief overview of TPCK, and will offer examples of how this framework has assisted in technology integration projects in library instruction classrooms. Examples will include working to integrate iPads into a lesson for English language learners, using PollEverywhere in English composition classes, and other.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 16 The Only Tool You Need: How Read Design Studio is advancing programming, marketing, and outreach in Idaho ALAs READ Design Studio (RDS) products were the foundation for projects in Idaho that targeted youth services staff from both public and school libraries. The Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL) hosted several events in 2011 and 2012 to train staff on the creation of projects that would engage, inspire, and challenge teens. The programs were designed to leverage teens love of technology and their interest in creating projects where they were the celebrities. During Teen Read Week (TRW) 2011, library staff assisted teens in the creation of their very own READ posters. These posters were voted on by Idaho teens and winners received statewide recognition. In 2012 the ICfL again used this versatile tool to target different audiences and demonstrate its potential for marketing library services. 50 library staff attended workshops where they learned to create unique RDS themed projects such as window clings, tattoos, magnetic frames, and other visual media to use for outreach, programming, and promotion. Staff then returned to their libraries and implemented projects with local teens. Has it had an impact? Yes! TRW alone showed an increase in teen participation of 68% from 2010 to 2011. And we are not done yet. Next up is utilizing RDS during events such as Idaho Family Reading Week.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 17 Walk This Way: Leading Users to Library Resources with Interactive Floor Plans Interactive software and technologies continue to re-invent how educators teach and how students learn. From the most basic example of hyperlinked resources on an instructors online syllabus, to interactive, 3-D human anatomy apps, the learning environment increasingly mimics the world of todays student: one of omnipresent technologies and screens and ongoing interaction with both images and text. This session will explore Blackwell Librarys move to harness the power of this convergence to create an interactive floor plan that is not only an innovative and fun way to introduce users to the library, but also a powerful, multi-faceted resource tool. The set of floor plans, with over 70 photos, 3,000 words of informational text, and 66 links, is a marketing tool for the library that promotes the students, the staff and the librarys collections, services, and technologies, an IL tool that connects users with subject liaisons and subject research guides, and an assessment tool that tracks its own usefulness in real time using bit.ly metrics to record clicks.
JODYSPACE1 VI - 18 Winning the war against entropy: FSU Libraries' Tool Kit for library website maintenance. In a perfect world, a perfect library website would remain perfect into the future. Instead, the world moves on and a website can be left behind. All websites face a constant battle to remain vibrant, vital, and accurate, as a once-perfect library website ages. Factual information, such as institutional policies and contact information, must be brought up-to-date. Library websites present special concerns: Databases move from vendor to vendor. Journals move from database to database. Meanwhile, links on the website, LibGuides, and professors' syllabi point to the old location the world as it once was, not as it is.
The Florida State University (FSU) Libraries presents tools for keeping up with change. Working relationships among program areas ensure outdated information is quickly corrected, automated link checkers identify problem areas, and Persistent URLs target difficulties of electronic resource links, and proxy logins.
FSU Libraries presents a website maintenance Tool Kit: (1) a checklist of recommended annual/biannual tasks to keep facts current, (2) an automated link checker to identify aging pages, and (3) Persistent URLs in LibGuides. Visitors can sign up to receive an emailed report of broken links on their library's website.
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Meghan Finch, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (meghan.finch@wayne.edu)
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Lenore England, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD (lengland@umuc.edu)
Stephen Miller, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD (smiller@umuc.edu)
Stephen Miller, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD (smiller@umuc.edu)
Stephen Miller, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD (smiller@umuc.edu)
Stephen Miller, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD (smiller@umuc.edu)
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Julie Judkins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (julieju@med.umich.edu)
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Arianna Lechan, Dana Hall School, Dedham, MA (alechan@comcast.net)
Jorgensen Anna, South Elementary School, Quincy, MA (ajjorgensen@gmail.com)
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Kimberly Durante, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (kaduran@emory.edu)
Erica Bruchko, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (berica@emory.edu)
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Carli Spina, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA (spina@post.harvard.edu)
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Alicia Verno, Boston Biomedical Consultants, Inc., Waltham, MA (averno@bostonbiomed.com)
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Jennifer Motszko, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (j_motszk@uncg.edu)
Kathelene McCarty Smith, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (kmsmi24@uncg.edu)
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Barbara Lupei, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA (barbara.lupei@navy.mil)
Mary Ray, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA (mary.ray@navy.mil)
Ann Moorehead, , , -- State -- (ann.moorehead@navy.mil)
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Elaine Franco, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (eafranco@ucdavis.edu)
Loretta Firestone, , , -- State -- (lbfirestone@ucdavis.edu)
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Maryke Barber, Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA (mbarber@hollins.edu)
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Michael Witt, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (mwitt@purdue.edu)
Michael Giarlo, Penn State University, , -- State -- (michael@psu.edu)
Marcy Wilhelm-South, Indiana University-Indianapolis, , -- State -- (marcy.wilhelm@gmail.com)
Rachel Newbury, Indiana University-Indianapolis, , -- State -- (rrnewbur@umail.iu.edu)
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Patricia Headlee, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (pat.headlee@nau.edu)
Julie Swann, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (Julie.Swann@nau.edu)
Sandra Lahtinen, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (Sandra.Lahtinen@nau.edu)
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Holli Buchter, St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont, CO (buchter_holli@svvsd.org)
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Amy Baptist, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA (amy.baptist@selu.edu)
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Helen Bloch, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA (hibloch@yahoo.com)
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Wade Garrison, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS (wadeg@ku.edu)
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Jason Coleman, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan, KS (coleman@k-state.edu)
Leo Lo, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan, KS (leolo@k-state.edu)
Danielle Theiss, Rockhurst University Library, Kansas City, MO (danielle.theiss@rockhurst.edu)
Jessica Hammond, MOBIUS, Columbia, MO (jessica@mobiusconsortium.org)
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Gayatri Singh, Social Sciences & Humanities Library at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (gasingh@ucsd.edu)
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Kevin Comerford, University of New Mexico Libraries, Albuquerque, NM (kevco@unm.edu)
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Tabitha Johnson, The School at Columbia, New York, NY (Tjohnson@theschool.columbia.edu)
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Stephanie Rosenblatt, Pollak Library, California State University, Fullerton, , -- State -- (srosenblatt@fullerton.edu)
Alnas Zia, , , -- State -- (a.xya87@gmail.com)
Mandy Bruns, , , -- State -- (mandyle2007@yahoo.com)
Lacey Hague, , , -- State -- (musicalx3@csu.fullerton.edu)
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Sheau-Hwang Chang, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA (schang@bridgew.edu)
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Stephanie Otis, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (sotis@uncc.edu)
Alison Bradley, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (adbradle@uncc.edu)
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Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL (sdaviska@iwu.edu)
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Liana Juliano, American Indian Library Association, El Monte, CA (lj12116@yahoo.com)
Lessa Pelayo-Lozada, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, , -- State -- (lessalozada@gmail.com)
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Linda Teel, East Carolina University Joyner Library, Greenville, NC (teell@ecu.edu)
Hazel Walker, East Carolina University Joyner Library, Greenville, NC (walkerh@ecu.edu)
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Robin, Anjali, Maegan, Carrie Amado,Bhasin,Heindel,Wolfson, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI (bhasin2@wisc.edu)
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Phillip Jones, Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA (jonesphi@grinnell.edu)
Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA (knight@grinnell.edu)
Laureen Cantwell, Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA (cantwell@grinnell.edu)
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Theresa Carlson, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (theresa.carlson@nau.edu)
Kevin Ketchner, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (kevin.ketchner@nau.edu)
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Antonia Olivas, California State University Library San Marcos, San Marcos, CA (tolivas@csusm.edu)
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Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (moakleaf@syr.edu)
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Irene Ke, University of Houston, Houston, TX (ijke@uh.edu)
Beth German, University of Houston, Houston, TX (emgerman@uh.edu)
Sean Watkins, University of Houston, Houston, TX (slwatkins@uh.edu)
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Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA (emitnick@lapl.org)
Natalie Cole, , , -- State -- (nataliecole1@gmail.com)
Cindy Mediavilla, , , -- State -- (cmediavi@ucla.edu)
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Rachel Radom, University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, TN (rradom@utk.edu)
Rachel Gammons, University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, TN (rgammons@utk.edu)
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J B Hill, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR (jbhill@ualr.edu)
Lisa Li, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR (hxli@ualr.edu)
Carol Macheak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR (cimacheak@ualr.edu)
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Nancy Noe, Auburn Univesity Libraries, Auburn, AL (noenanc@auburn.edu)
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Eric Resnis, Miami University, Oxfrod, OH (resnisew@muohio.edu)
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Tess Prendergast, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, -- State -- (bxbtessa@yahoo.ca)
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Joe Hardenbrook, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, , -- State -- (hardenbj@uwgb.edu)
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Sha Li Zhang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries, Greensboro,, NC (slzhang@uncg.edu)
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Gayatri Singh, Social Sciences & Humanities Library at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (gasingh@ucsd.edu)
Amy Butros, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (abutros@ucsd.edu)
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Elizabeth Stephan, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (Elizabeth.Stephan@wwu.edu)
Penny Scott, Gleeson Library/Geschke Learning Center, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (plscott@usfca.edu)
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Karen Sobel, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO (karen.sobel@ucdenver.edu)
Kristin Grabarek Roper, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO (kroper@denverlibrary.org)
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Ava Iuliano, Florida International University, Miami, FL (aiuliano@fiu.edu)
Marissa Ball, Florida International University, Miami, FL (marissa.ball@fiu.edu)
Kathryn Corrigan, Florida International University, Miami, FL (kathryn,corrigan@fiu.edu)
Lauren Christos, Florida International University, Miami, FL (lauren.christos@fiu.edu)
George Pearson, Florida International University, Miami, FL (george.pearson@fiu.edu)
Susan Weiss, Florida International University, Miami, FL (susan.weiss@fiu.edu)
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Christine Tobias, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI (tobiasc@mail.lib.msu.edu)
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Britt McGowan, University of West Florida Libraries, Pensacola, FL (bmcgowan@uwf.edu)
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Laura Carscaddon, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, GA (lcarscaddon1@gsu.edu)
Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ (chapmank@u.library.arizona.edu)
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Katy Kelly, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH (kkelly2@udayton.edu)
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Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, GA (aswygarthobaugh@gsu.edu)
Christian Steinmetz, Georgia State University Library, , -- State -- (csteinmetz1@gsu.edu)
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Leslie McNabb, San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA (lmcnabb@sandiego.gov)
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Jim Blansett, University of Alabama/University Libraries, Tuscaloosa, AL (jim.blansett@ua.edu)
Catherine Blansett, Ph.D., Independent Researcher, Tuscaloosa, AL (catherine.blansett@infocentraldata.org)
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Paige Bentley-Flannery, Deschutes Public Library, Bend, OR (paigeb@dpls.us)
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Virginia Sojdehei, Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, Bloomington, IN (sojdehei@indiana.edu)
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Daniella Smith, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (Daniella.Smith@unt.edu)
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Gerard Hogan, Central Washington University Library, Ellensburg, WA (hogang@cwu.edu)
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Steven Engelfried, Wilsonville Public Library, Wilsonville, OR (engelfried@wilsonvillelibrary.org)
Patrick Duke, Wilsonville Public Library, , -- State -- (duke@wilsonvillelibrary.org)
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Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7011, FL (margeaux@ufl.edu)
Nate Poling, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, -- State -- (npoling@ufl.edu)
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Jenny Wei, Education Specialist, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (weij@si.edu)
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Melissa Nykanen, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (melissa.nykanen@pepperdine.edu)
Katie Richardson, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (katie.richardson@pepperdine.edu)
Kevin Miller, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (kevin.miller3@pepperdine.edu)
Jamie Henricks, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (jamie.henricks@pepperdine.edu)
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Ellin Klor, Santa Clara City Library, Santa Clara, CA (ellinklor@sbcglobal.net)
Sarah Lapin, San Mateo County Library, San Mateo, CA (lapin@smcl.org)
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Julia Wright, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (julia.wright@unt.edu)
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Gillian Nowlan, University of Regina, Regina, -- State -- (gillian.nowlan@uregina.ca)
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Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School, Canton, GA (buffy.hamilton@gmail.com)
Carol Hodges, Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, VA (chodges@tcc.edu)
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Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, NY (markaaron.polger@csi.cuny.edu)
Beth Evans, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (bevans@brooklyn.cuny.edu)
Ryan Phillips, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY (ryan.phillips@baruch.cuny.edu)
Janey Chao, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY (sheau-yueh.chao@baruch.cuny.edu)
Ellen Sexton, Lloyd Sealy Library , John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY (esexton@jjay.cuny.edu)
Beth Posner, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY (bposner@gc.cuny.edu)
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Leslie McNabb, San Diego Public Library, San Diego, -- State -- (lmcnabb@sandiego.gov)
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Miguel Viciedo Valds, ASCUBI Asociacin Cubana de Bibliotecarios, La Habana, -- State -- (mviciedo@bpvillena.ohc.cu)
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Stacy Russo, Nealley Library, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA (russo_stacy@sac.edu)
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Valeria Gallo Stampino, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, -- State -- (valergal@vpl.ca)
Renee Chalut, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, -- State -- (renee.chalut@vpl.ca)
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Janet Lee, Regis University, Denver, CO (jlee@regis.edu)
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Gergana Kostova, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Baltimore, MD (g.kostova@umbc.edu)
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Shuyong Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library,, , -- State -- (shyjiang@illinois.edu)
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Shu hsien Tseng, National Central Library, Taipei, -- State -- (egret.tseng@gmail.com)
Peng Kao, National Central Library, Taipei, -- State -- (peng2640@ncl.edu.tw)
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Klara Maidenberg, University of Toronto, Toronto, VT (klara.maidenberg@utoronto.ca)
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, University of Toronto, Toronto, -- State -- (jacqueline.whyteappleby@utoronto.ca)
Amy Greenberg, University of Toronto, Toronto, AL (amy.greenberg@utoronto.ca)
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Naomi Doessel, Griffith University, Brisbane, -- State -- (n.doessel@griffith.edu.au)
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LIN WAN YI, , Taipei, -- State -- (mlsh281@tp.edu.tw)
Chen Su Jane, , Taipei, -- State -- (mlsh028@tp.edu.tw)
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Constantin Mituca, Gorj County Public Library, Romania; member ANBPR (National Association of Librarians and Public Lib, Tirgu Jiu, -- State -- (pipimituca@yahoo.com)
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Chung-Chiao Lu, Director, National Taichung Library, Taichung, -- State -- (slchou@ntl.gov.tw)
Shu-Lai Chou, Executive Officer, Reference Department of National Taichung Library, TaiChung, -- State -- (slchou@ntl.gov.tw)
Ming-Kai Lan, Executive Officer. Audio-Visual Education Department of National Taichung Library, Taichung, -- State -- (slchou@ntl.gov.tw)
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Nikki Krysak, Head of Instructional Services, Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield, VT (nkrysak@norwich.edu)
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Tammy Ivins, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC (tivins@fmarion.edu)
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Martin Kesselman, Rutgers University Libraries, Piscataway, NJ (martyk@rulmail.rutgers.edu)
Laura Palumbo, , , -- State -- (elbee@eden.rutgers.edu)
Connie Wu, , , -- State -- (conniewu@rutgers.edu)
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Kari Weaver, University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC (KariW@usca.edu)
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Ben Walker, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (bfwalker@ufl.edu)
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Risa Lumley, California State University, San Bernardino - Palm Desert Campus, Palm Desert, CA (rlumley@csusb.edu)
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Holly Flynn, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (flynnhol@msu.edu)
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Tiffany Lopez, ASRC Primus / EPA Library Network, Raleigh, NC (tiflopez@gmail.com)
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M. Danet Lapiz Bluhm, School of Nursing, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, , -- State -- (lapiz@uthscsa.edu)
Angela Myatt, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Briscoe Library, , -- State -- (myatta@uthscsa.edu)
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Amanda Binder, University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, IL (binder2@uis.edu)
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Chi-Chuan Wu, Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, -- State -- (chichuanwu@gmail.com)
Yu-Ying Li, Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, -- State -- (gh3226@hotmail.com)
Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu, Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, -- State -- (phoebechiu@ntnu.edu.tw)
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Alyssa Archer, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA (aarcher2@radford.edu)
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Shelley Arlen, University of Florida, Library West, Gainesville, FL (shelarl@uflib.ufl.edu)
Cindy Craig, University of Florida, Library West, Gainesville, FL (clcraig@ufl.edu)
Missy Clapp, University of Florida, Library West, Gainesville, FL (melshoo@uflib.ufl.edu)
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S. Michele Echols, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY (sechols@queenslibrary.org)
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Talitha Matlin, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA (tmatlin@sandiegozoo.org)
Amy Jankowski, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA (ajankowski@sandiegozoo.org)
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Karen Neurohr, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (karen.neurohr@okstate.edu)
Richard Paustenbaugh, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (richard.paustenbaugh@okstate.edu)
Jeffrey Simpson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (jeff.simpson10@okstate.edu)
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Melissa Clapp, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, Gainesville, FL (shoop@ufl.edu)
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Ann Lindell, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, , -- State -- (annlind@uflib.ufl.edu)
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Christopher Cox, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (chris.cox@wwu.edu)
Jane Blume, Bellingham Technical College, Bellingham, WA (JBlume@btc.ctc.edu)
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Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7011, FL (margeaux@ufl.edu)
Michelle Leonard, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7011, FL (mleonard@uflib.ufl.edu)
Amy Buhler, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7011, FL (abuhler@ufl.edu)
Melody Royster, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7011, FL (mroyster@uflib.ufl.edu)
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Merinda Hensley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (mhensle1@illinois.edu)
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Carol Daul-Elhindi, St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN (cdaulelh@smumn.edu)
Ruth Ann Torstenson-Lemasters, St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN (rtorsten@smumn.edu)
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Young Lee, University of La Verne Law Library, Ontario, -- State -- (leebrarian@gmail.com)
John Jackson, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (johnjack@usc.edu)
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Cheryl McCallips, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (cam42@psu.edu)
Nancy Butkovich, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA ()
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Christopher Shaffer, Troy University Dothan, Dothan, AL (shafferc@troy.edu)
Olga Casey, Troy University Dothan, Dothan, AL (oknyaz@troy.edu)
Lisa Vardaman, Troy University, Troy, AL (lisavardaman@troy.edu)
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Gregory Schmidt, Auburn University Libraries, Auburn, AL (schmigr@auburn.edu)
Todd Shipman, Auburn University Libraries, Auburn, AL (schmigr@auburn.edu)
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Toni Carter, Auburn University Libraries, Auburn, AL (tcd0006@auburn.edu)
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Jaena Alabi, Auburn University, Auburn, AL (jma0019@auburn.edu)
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Kacy Lundstrom, Utah State University, Logan, UT (kacy.lundstrom@usu.edu)
Erin Davis, Utah State University, Logan, UT (erin.davis@usu.edu)
Pamela Martin, Utah State University, Logan, UT (pamela.martin@usu.edu)
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Perry Bratcher, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY (bratcher@nku.edu)
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Susan Schreiner, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS (sschrein@pittstate.edu)
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Deborah Blecic, University of Illlinois at Chicago Library, Chicago, IL (dblecic@uic.edu)
Stephen Wiberley, , , -- State -- (wiberley@uic.edu)
John Cullars, , , -- State -- (jcullars@uic.edu)
Sandra De Groote, , , -- State -- (sgroote@uic.edu)
Mary Shultz, , , -- State -- (shultz@uic.edu)
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Theresa Carlson, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (theresa.carlson@nau.edu)
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Jamie Kohler, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (kohlerjp@westminster.edu)
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Stephanie Rosenblatt, Pollak Library, California State University, Fullerton, , -- State -- (srosenblatt@fullerton.edu)
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Rebecca Blakiston, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ (blakistonr@u.library.arizona.edu)
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Beth Overhauser, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN (overhaue@ipfw.edu)
Shannon Johnson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN (johnsons@ipfw.edu)
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Beth Kumar, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO (bkumar@uccs.edu)
Tabatha Farney, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO (tfarney@uccs.edu)
Sara Memmott, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI (smemmott@emich.edu)
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Margaret G. Grotti, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (mgrotti@udel.edu)
Karen Sobel, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO (karen.sobel@ucdenver.edu)
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Erica Compton, Idaho Commission for Libraries, Boise, ID (erica.compton@libraries.idaho.gov)
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Michael English, Salisbury University, Blackwell Library, Salisbury, MD (mcenglish@salisbury.edu)
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Wilhelmina Randtke, Florida State University Law Research Center, Tallahassee, FL (wvr05@fsu.edu)
Matt Burrell, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, FL (mdburrell@fsu.edu)
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