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More Than Just Where To Click, Heather Jagman, Troy Swanson

Heather Jagman

How do we move students beyond mechanical searching skills toward more sophisticated ways of understanding information? How can we encourage students reflect on their own beliefs and worldviews as they interact with sources? ACRL’s new title, Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information seeks to answer these questions. In addition to providing background on the editorial process, Swanson and Jagman will highlight the connections made by contributors and explore how authors provide a balance of theoretical and applied approaches to information literacy, supplying readers with accessible and innovative ideas ready to be put into practice.

Data In The Sciences At Colby College, A Case Study, Susan Westerberg Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

A sabbatical project looked at the research data needs of science faculty at a small liberal arts college in order to determine potential library support services. I concluded that support needs to come from multiple campus units. This study highlighted the value of personal interviews to discover actual needs that had been unanticipated.

Ethnographers In The Library, Angi Faiks, Dianna Shandy

Angi Faiks

No abstract provided.

Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives From A Range Of Academic Libraries (Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program), Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.

Altmetrics, Betty Landesman

Betty Landesman

PowerPoint deck from presentation at the University of Baltimore's College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Day, March 24, 2015.

Rethinking And Revising Learning Spaces In The Library, Sara Swenson, Lisa Gearman, Brooke Cox, Caroline Gilson

Caroline L. Gilson

What do the study spaces in your library look like? Have they adapted to meet the changing work habits of students? Learn how two high school media centers and a university library adapted their student study and learning spaces. Media Specialists Lisa Gearman and Sara Swenson share their journeys to reinvent learning spaces in two different high schools. Academic librarians Brooke Cox and Caroline Gilson will discuss how DePauw University Libraries addressed planning, adapting and assessing library study spaces to meet student needs. We will provide practical advice on design possibilities that can be scaled and tweaked for any library …

Integrating Information Literacy Into The Core Curriculum: Creating Sustainable Models, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Elisa Slater Acosta, Jennifer Fabbi, Erin Rinto

Elisa Slater Acosta

It Starts With A Good Idea: Funded Research 101, Mary H. Molinaro

Mary H Molinaro

How does one get started in funded research? This presentation for UK Libraries faculty was intended to provide some concrete steps in seeking external funding for projects. The presentation provided tips and addressed pitfalls that one encounters when seeking grant funds.

Making Sense Of The Alphabet Soup Of Standards: Practical Support For Managing Electronic Resources, Betty Landesman

Betty Landesman

Standardization of both publishing and electronic resources management practices has become increasingly important to support the work of library staff and to better serve our users. This session reviewed three recommended practices from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO): KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools); DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs); and Transfer (when titles transfer from one publisher to another).

The Florida State Libraries Resource Sharing Initiative: Did The Predications Pan Out?, Leetta Schmidt, Dennis Smith

Dennis J Smith

This article revisits discussion from “The Florida State Libraries Resource Sharing Initiative: Unity Among a Disparate Group” (Schmidt & Smith, 2012) on the implementation of a new resource sharing program within the Florida State University Libraries called UBorrow. The program and its effects are assessed after 2 years with comparison to the project launch's original predictions.

Building Special Collections: Lessons From Digitizing, Organizing, And Archiving The Sam Sheppard Collection, Susan Altmeyer, Rebecca Mattson

Rebecca A. Mattson

Special collections showcase unique and rare holdings for any library; they can increase visibility and access far beyond the library’s borders. Join us to hear about the process of building one such collection at Engaged Scholarship@CSU, Cleveland State University's repository. CSU’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library was gifted with 50-plus boxes of materials from the 1954 Sam Sheppard trial. Learn how the library made strategic choices with image collections, timelines, and other customizations to tackle this major project. Now well into building a showcase for the collection in EngagedScholarship@CSU, Rebecca Mattson, Collection Development Librarian, and Susan Altmeyer, Digital Content Librarian, …

Fool’S Gold Why The Internet Is No Substitute For A Library, Mark Herring

Mark Y. Herring

This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library’s staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM’s were all once predicted as the contemporary library’s heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.

Raising Funds With Friends Groups, Mark Herring

Mark Y. Herring

Here is everything you and your library need to make the most of their friends group - or to start a viable and active new group. Friends group expert Mark Herring offers step-by-step advice for how public and academic libraries can capitalize on this important asset, including establishing and organizing a steering committee, marketing and public relations, advocacy, and special events programming. Special sections focus on feasibility studies, establishing perpetual programs and legacy gifts, and establishing and utilizing a Friends' Web site for fundraising.

Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument For Relevance In The Digital Age, Mark Herring

Mark Y. Herring

The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery.

The author gives both sides—the web aficionados, some of them unhinged, and the traditional librarians, some blinkered—a fair hearing but misconceptions abound. Internet be-all and end-all enthusiasts are no more useful than librarians who urge fellow professionals to be all things to all people. The American Library Association, wildly democratic at its best and worst, appears schizophrenic on the issue, unhelpfully. “My effort here,” says …

Finding Sources Of Evidence, Patricia Mileham

Patricia Mileham

No abstract provided.

The Creative Law Librarian: Continuing Professional Development: Why And How..., Karen Rowe-Nurse

Karen Rowe-Nurse

Assessment And Weeding Of A Clinical Hiv/Aids Collection In An Academic Library: A Case Study, Sharon Leslie, Ida Martinez

Sharon Leslie

Maintaining a clinical HIV/AIDS section in an academic library collection that is both current and historically significant for research is essential. This paper reports on a collection management project that was undertaken to weed HIV/AIDS books in targeted clinical areas of an academic library using a timeline model developed by Ondrusek (2001) as a supplement to traditional weeding methods. The combination proved effective for identifying clinical materials that were outdated and needed to be deaccessioned while maintaining historically-relevant materials in these areas.

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Patricia Bravender, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure

Patricia Bravender

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts provides instruction librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The included lessons are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education. This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the Framework.

Esbco Discovery Service (Eds) For Spsu Library, Li Chen

Li Chen

Granted for ($66000) (2012-2015) from SPSU Tech Fee to fund The Library Discovery Tool

Spsu Tech Fee Project Tf-15-19, Scandiva – Full Face Up Digital Scanner Granted For ($22,932.00), Li Chen

Li Chen

Granted for ($22,932.00) for SPSU library face -up scanner.

Classroom Assessment Techniques For Librarians, Melissa Bowles-Terry, Cassandra Kvenild

Cass Kvenild

Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians provides the tools librarians need to quickly and meaningfully assess student knowledge in the classroom. The authors, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Cassandra Kvenild, share 24 tried and true assessment tools, along with library-specific examples, to help librarians assess students’ ability to recall, analyze, and apply new knowledge. The assessment tools in this book actively engage students by asking them to think, write, and reflect. Librarians can use results of these assessments as a starting point to define and measure information literacy learning outcomes as well as to improve their teaching skills and instructional design. This collection …

Librarybox: The Easy Solution For Checkout Ebooks, Li Chen

Li Chen

Abstract: KSU Johnson Library purchased several ebooks in epub and mobi format. However these files don’t have URL links and cannot be accessed via library system nor can they be directly transferred to e-reader devices. How can we make these ebooks accessible for users? After an extensive research, we found out that “LibraryBox” is an excellent solution. LibraryBox can make the process of downloading epub or mobi files to e-readers directly. We purchased the LibraryBox in Nov. 2014. We configured it and transferred the epub and mobi files into LibraryBox and downloaded to the library e-readers. In this poster, we …

Gla Team Award For The Kennesaw State University Voyager Consolidation Team (2015)(Regional Level), Li Chen

Li Chen

No abstract provided.

Administrative Research Support Service, Linda Kott, Vickie Mix, Nancy Marshall

Vickie Mix

Administrative Research Support Service, Linda Kott, Vickie Mix, Nancy Marshall

Nancy Marshall

Invigorating Library Instruction, Andrea Tieman

Andrea Tieman

Stories And Statistics From Library-Led Publishing, Casey Busher, Irene Kamotsky

Casey Busher

Library-led publishing is one of the new approaches to journal publishing and open access that has grown tremendously in the last few years. A 2010 MLIS-funded survey found that 55% of respondents—from U.S. academic libraries of all different types and sizes—were already implementing or developing a publishing program. Library-led publishing has garnered such momentum because, by offering low- or no-cost publishing to university scholars, it addresses needs that traditional publishing has not been able to meet. This article presents a series of small case studies to illustrate different journals that have benefited from the library-publishing model: a journal that struggled …