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Inclusive Lgbtqia+ Education: Why It’S Important And How To Be An Advocate For Change, Amanda Melilli

Library Faculty Presentations

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“That’S Not Real Reading”: Making The Case For Graphic Novel Inclusion In Every Classroom, Amanda Melilli, Kate Covintree, Alicia Abdul

Library Faculty Presentations

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In-House Vs. Outsourced Digitization: Similarities, Key Differences And Pitfalls To Avoid, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

With the rise of digitizing archival collections across academic and public libraries, more librarians are getting involved in project management, but not all of them have expertise or relevant background in digitization or managing projects. In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll gain tips and strategies for managing digitization projects.

This 60-min webinar is designed to help professionals relatively new to digitization and project management as it outlines some similarities and key differences between managing in-house digitization projects vs outsourcing large-scale digitization projects. Digital project management and digitization expert Marina Georgieva compares and contrasts some important project components such as technology selection, …

Having Our Say: Engaging Ill And Liaison Librarians In Metadata Curation In Eds, Jeffrey M. Mortimore

Library Faculty Presentations

Deciding whether to support discovery of metadata for unsubscribed content raises a lot of questions for technical and public services librarians, from the philosophical to the pragmatic. Doing so requires careful curation and monitoring of metadata sources, and benefits from library-wide input. During this session, presenters describe their process for vetting metadata collections with ILL and liaison librarians for inclusion in EDS. This involves a three-step evaluation of collections for overall metadata quality, likelihood of ILL fulfillment, and value to the collection. Over the course of this evaluation, technical services, ILL, and liaison librarians each “have their say” on whether …

#Instasuccess: How Collaborating With A Student Assistant Can Transform Your Library’S Social Media Presence With Real Appeal, Kari L. Siders, Kirsten N. Setzkorn

Library Faculty Presentations

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Successful User Experience Active Listening + Creative Solutions = Building Relationships, Engaging Older Adult Patrons, Kay Coates, Dylitchrous Thompson

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at Georgia Libraries Conference

A brief discussion on ways librarians can use design thinking strategies to support older adult library users. With more university libraries serving the public, academic librarians must be prepared to serve non-traditional students and multi-generational patrons. In particular, older adult library patrons often surface with unique research quests ranging from leisurely bylines, life-long learning to ancestral pursuits and more. Assessing their distinct needs yields opportunities to serve this population of users through relationship building, knowledge-based content, and access privileges. Design thinking solutions can equip academic librarians to effectively engage, support, and satisfy the diverse …

You Have To Work For It: Transitioning From Passive To Active Diversity Recruitment, Amy E. Tureen

Library Faculty Presentations

Perhaps the most interesting thing about UNLV Libraries' transition from passive to active diversity recruitment is that the transition has been the organic & iterative. Individual choices made by specific hiring managers & search committees were repeated and improved upon by subsequent committees & hiring managers, slowly filtering up the organization until such choices were codified by HR and administration. In our experience, anyone can participate in promoting active diversity recruitment. Such initiatives do not need to come exclusively from the top down.

Honoring The Unique Strengths Of First-Gen Students Through Community-Based Participatory Research, Rebekah D'Amato, Priscilla Gutierrez, Bibi Lopez, Eduardo Martinez, David Ramos Candelas, Chelsea Heinbach, Rosan Mitola

Library Faculty Presentations

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Virtual Cohorts As A Team Building And Problem-Solving Tool, Amy E. Tureen, Erick Lemon, Joyce Martin, Starr Hoffman, Mindy Thuna, Willie Miller

Library Faculty Presentations

Foster nascent relationships forged at LIAL 2018. Expand participants' understanding of the "four frames" of academic leadership. Increase comfort writing and assessing case studies. Explore different approaches to common leadership scenarios. Use technology to develop cohort culture.

For First-Gens By First-Gens: A Student Led, Strengths-Based Study To Guide Teaching And Outreach Practices In Academic Libraries, Chelsea Heinbach, Bibiana Lopez, Eduardo Martinez-Flores, David Ramos, Rebekah D'Amato, Priscilla Gutierez, Rosan Mitola

Library Faculty Presentations

We are first-gen students, from an array of backgrounds, working in the Mason Undergraduate Peer Research Coach Program. This program creates an environment for college students to achieve academic success, personal growth, and excel in their chosen field of study. We co-teach alongside librarians and lead library outreach initiatives as student ambassadors.

Incubating Innovation: How Hospitality Librarians Support Entrepreneurship, Lateka J. Grays, Robert Rippee

Library Faculty Presentations

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Standards: How Unlv Libraries Provides Access, Susan B. Wainscott, Richard Zwiercan

Library Faculty Presentations

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Teamwork Makes The Dream Work: Positioning, Collaboration, And Finding Balance Across Technical And Public Services, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Dawn Nikki Cannon-Rech, Sai Deng

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given at the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference.

Summary: Technology, budgets, and library reorganizations have dramatically reshaped the roles of technical and public services librarians in recent years. Ways of collaborating across library units have changed as well. Together, technical and public services librarians are asking how we should position ourselves, seek collaboration, and find balance in our work. Drawing on participants' experiences, we will explore how engaging strengths and expertise across technical and public services, and partnering with students and researchers in scholarly communication practices, reframes librarian roles and contributes …

Conversation Starter: Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! Leveraging Intra-Library Partnerships To Improve Service Impact, Dawn Nikki Cannon-Rech, Jeffrey M. Mortimore

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference.

Liaison librarians are superheroes, but they don’t go it alone. Share in one library’s experience cutting through the smoke and mirrors of the “solo subject liaison” service model by considering the intra-library partnerships necessary to deliver well-rounded, impactful research services. Presenters describe how collaboration between liaison and technical services librarians have strengthened the role of the liaison program while increasing awareness of library services, expanding instruction beyond the one-shot format, and extending the audience for services previously perceived as faculty-only. Join the discussion by sharing your experiences with intra-library collaboration, …

Data Remediation At Scale: How To Clean Up Your Metadata Quickly And Effectively Using Excel, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

Metadata remediation is inevitable – at some point or another all institutions need to clean-up legacy metadata of their digital collections so it conforms to new standards and to updated metadata application profile, or simply to prepare it for migration. Optimized metadata is vital for improved search experience and easy discovery of digital objects. This session will demonstrate how Excel can be a very handy tool for manipulating and cleaning up exported non-MARC metadata from ContentDM. The presenter will manipulate a metadata spreadsheet from a real digital collection demonstrating the following:

• Data remediation using some advanced Excel functions that allow …

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A Gap To Mind Diversity And Collection Development, Kay Coates

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at the Georgia Library Association (GLA) CalPERS Diversity & Inclusion Group (CDIG), Diversity in Collection Development

This presentation is a curiosity driven discussion about identifying and attempting to address gaps in a library’s holdings as it seeks to adhere to the ALA’s values regarding Diversity and Inclusive content management. In congruence with the unique set of executive practices that institutionally predominates a library’s present modus operandi, approaches will differ. Hence, the question of collection audits and goal-setting to address inconsistencies arises. I will reference my experience of working in an academic library where the existing approach to Collection …

Metadata: An Overview For Digital Collections, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

Overview of the metadata role in resource description, resource discovery and website faceting. The presentation discusses metadata consistency, granularity and types (descriptive, administrative and structural) with emphasis on technical and preservation metadata. The presentation introduces Dublin Core element set as well as other popular metadata schemas and their applications. The presentation also outlines the benefits of metadata reuse and the significant role of the Metadata application profile in structuring, normalizing, disambiguating and making metadata consistent and interoperable. Additionally, it points out the significance of using controlled vocabularies and their role in disambiguating words, synonym control and consistency across collections. Introduces …

Engaging Student Veterans As Researchers: Libraries Initiating Campus Collaborations, Mark N. Lenker Iii, Melissa Bowles-Terry

Library Faculty Presentations

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Discover A New World Of Reading: Making The Case For Graphic Novels As "Real" Books In Secondary Education, Amanda Melilli

Library Faculty Presentations

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Dream Team, Assemble! Strengthening Partnerships And Collaboration Across Technical And Public Services, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Kristin Nielsen, Marlee Givens, Sofia Slutskaya, Tricia Clayton

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given at the GIL Users Group Meeting.

Escape The Doubt Using Escape Rooms To Teach And Align Learning With Ga Standards Of Excellence (Gse) & The Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (Ccgps), Dawn Nikki Cannon-Rech, Kay Coates

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at the EdCamp 2019 Conference.

Career Readiness & Development: What To Expect When You’Re Expecting To Graduate With A Mlis Series, Lateka J. Grays

Library Faculty Presentations

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How Faculty Demonstrate Impact: A Multi-Institutional Study Of Faculty Understandings, Perceptions, And Strategies Regarding Impact Metrics, Caitlin Bakker, Jonathan Bull, Nancy Courtney, Dan Desanto, Allison Langham-Putrow, Jenny Mcburney, Aaron Nichols

Library Faculty Presentations

Faculty and institutions are increasingly called upon to present succinct, quantified descriptions of their research impact to administrators, funders, legislators, and academics. This project sought to explore how and what researchers think about research impact measures across disciplines and institutions. Presenters will discuss findings from a multi-institutional survey of faculty (n=1202) addressing their familiarity with metrics and altmetrics and impression of the accuracy of these metrics. We discuss how researchers use such statistical measures to demonstrate the importance of their scholarship, and their attitudes towards use of scholarly metrics by administrators. We also address possible implications for librarians supporting these …

From Temporary To Transformative: Leveraging Externally-Funded Special Collections Projects As Organizational Learning And Development Opportunities, Cory K. Lampert, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

This poster proposes an academic library approach to addressing temporary project staffing in Special Collections and Archives with a focus on organizational transformation, professional development, and mentoring. The strategy includes both managerial perspective and insights from a visiting faculty librarian on key aspects of hiring, supporting, and leveraging temporary professional staff for impactful organizational development. While the focus of temporary projects is often completing deliverables on time, this poster presents three areas of layered learning outcomes that leverage project work as a catalyst for organizational development, managerial development, and new professional mentoring.

Creating Websites And Leading Librarians To A New Level Of Project Engagement, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

The 90-min workshop covers the main website components and some fundamental tools for static web design. The session has a practical component with hands-on activities - during that part the participants can actively build a custom WordPress website.

The session is divided as follows:

Part I (45 min) features 20 min presentation of basic web design concepts, tools and technologies and 25 min demo of the back-end of 2 static WordPress websites (free and paid versions)
Part II (45 min) features hands-on guided activities to design a new WordPress website from scratch

Attendees will learn web design fundamentals and some …

Metadata Remediation: Updates, Procedures, Workflows, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Presentations

The presentation is a brief update on ongoing metadata remediation projects, procedures and workflows. It discusses some patterns emerging from data clean-up and possible ways for streamlining the process by developing more efficient workflows.

Research And Write At The Library, Amy F. Fyn, Allison Faix, Scott Pleasant

Library Faculty Presentations

This is a poster presented at the Southeastern Writing Center Conference in February 2019. The poster describes an event, the "Research and Write" workshop, that is a collaboration between the writing center and the library at Coastal Carolina University.

Embracing Technical Service's Public Service Role, Jeffrey M. Mortimore

Library Faculty Presentations

The traditional distinction between the “front office” and the “back office” fails to align with contemporary technical services practice. Today, technical and public services personnel are equally involved in providing resources, services, and support direct to patrons, demanding communication, collaboration, and public service competencies library-wide. Drawing upon participants' experiences, this roundtable will discuss the importance of communication and referral skills commonly associated with reference and instruction to the delivery of effective technical services. Discussion questions include:

• What are the emerging points of contact between technical and public services, and technical services and patrons? What role has the ongoing transition to …

Graphic Novels At Unlv An Exploration Of Their Relevancy And Your Freedom To Read, Katherine Keller, Amanda Melilli, Jean Munson, Jarret Keene

Library Faculty Presentations

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Service To Older Adults: Defining The A, B, C Of Reference Interchange, Kay Coates

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at 2019 Atlanta Area Bibliographic Instruction Group (AABIG) Conference

Older adult library patrons often surface with unique research needs. This presents opportunities to serve this population of users through relationship building, knowledge-based content, and access privileges. Employing empathy, design, and ideation from a design thinker’s toolkit can equip libraries to support this diverse group of learners whose information needs range from leisurely bylines, life-long learning, ancestral pursuits or other avocation. Design thinking solutions enable librarians to engage in effective reference transactions that satisfy these and other users. Successful user experience comes down to the A, B, and C …