Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Walking In The Steps Of The Emperors: Exploring Beijing's Forbidden City And Surrounding Hutong Neighborhoods, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A photographic exploration of Beijing's Forbidden City as told by a Messiah University librarian. Beth Transue has visited China three times, two of which were university cross-cultural courses for undergraduate students.

Ancestry And The 1950 Us Census, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A presentation for the staff of Messiah University

Tuesday, June 7 at noon; Boyer 337

Did you know that Messiah employees have access to a version of Ancestry.com? Find your ancestors and grow your family tree.

In April 2022, the 1950 Census was released to the public for the first time, after 72 years. Learn how to find yourself or your family members in the census. Try it out for yourself!

Moving Beyond Doctor Google: Finding And Evaluating Quality Health Information Online, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

• Identify quality health websites
• Evaluate health websites
• Improve communication with your health care provider

This was presented as part of a Pathways Institute for Lifelong Learning course.

Crafting An Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options To Embed Information Literacy In The Curriculum, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

No scissors and glue are needed with: Crafting an Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options to Embed Information Literacy in the Curriculum. Learn the process of creating an information literacy toolkit that maximizes librarian and faculty choices and increases student information literacy skills.

Objectives

• Describe the current information literacy environment at my institution, identifying strengths and challenges that might be common to other institutions
• Design of information literacy faculty toolkit
• Implement information literacy faculty toolkit

Please cite as:

Crafting an Information Literacy Toolkit: Maximizing Faculty Options to Embed Information Literacy in the Curriculum. PA Library Association Annual Conference. October …

Fake News Or Is It?, Liz Kielley

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

How can you tell if something is credible or fake news? Reliable information helps us make good decisions but with the proliferation of social media, sometimes it is hard to tell if we should believe it or delete it. We tend to want to believe those things that align with our world view, but is it true just because we want it to be? What is opinion and what is fact? Let’s sharpen our critical thinking skills and discover some tools that we can use to help us figure it out. We will learn what drives fake news, how to …

Revising The Revision: Moving New Information Literacy Instruction For Fy Students Online In The Wake Of Covid-19, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Pennsylvania Library Association, College and Research Division, Connect and Communication webinar series, March 17, 2021

Throughout 2018-19, librarians at Messiah University worked with the Director of First Year Core Courses to develop a scaffolded four-session information literacy program throughout the two core writing courses in the First Year student's curriculum. Academic year 2019-2020 was the first year for full implementation. The first three sessions were delivered in person and included flipped and active learning strategies. COVID-related closure of campus required immediate conversion of the final session to an online format. The presenter will share information about these curricular revisions, and …

Access Your Ancestors: Introduction To Free Online Genealogy Resources, Sarah Myers

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Wednesday, March 10, 202110:00 am - 11:00 am

Virtual on Zoom

Are you interested in finding out about your family history and climbing your family tree? This course will be an introduction to online genealogy resources that are free to use and easily accessible to anyone with internet access. Find census, birth, marriage, military, and death records with ease and without spending a dime. This class will energize you to make discoveries on what makes your family unique, special, and downright interesting.

All participants will receive a resource packet to organize and keep track of their findings. In addition to …

Information Consumer Or Product?: Algorithmic Literacy, Sarah K. Myers, Linda Poston

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A brief essay of the importance of being aware of your online privacy, algorithm bias, filter bubbles, and the sale online personal data. A starting place with provide resources to be a better user of the internet and more informed information consumer.

Visualizing Student Learning: Combining Digital And Information Literacy For Data Visualization Projects In A Nutrition And Dietetics Course, Amy Porto, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

This session will focus on the creation and implementation of a data visualization assignment through collaboration with the liaison librarian and instructional designers. Students gained digital and information literacy skills while creating an evidence-based infographic that could be used in nutrition education settings.

Formative Assessment: Identifying And Supporting Student Success In Information Literacy Processes, Melinda S. Burchard Ph.D., Sarah Myers

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

The Every Student Succeeds Act (2016) requires that teachers teach using evidence-based, and scientifically-researched teaching practices. With this, pre-service teachers at undergraduate institutions must learn how to find, evaluate and compare the results they find, and then determine how to implement such practices with fidelity. All Messiah College students pursuing any sort of teacher certification spend significant time in one upper level course to address finding and evaluating evidence-based practices. Instructors of that course co-teach a unit through three in-class workshops with their Education Librarian. This study examined relationships between students' perceptions and experiences with information literacy, their information literacy …

Apa Style 7th Edition, Beth Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Updates to APA Style Manual – Moving to the 7^th Edition

APA updated its style manual in October 2019 and APA plans to update the online APA site, Academic Writer/APA Style Central, in August 2020. Therefore, the library plans to update its APA materials and research assistance provided to patrons in August 2020, alongside the APA timeline. This presentation will cover major changes within the 7^th edition including an expanded non-biased language section, and citation formats for online materials.

A narrated presentation is available in the Additional Files section below.

A Lasting Legacy: E. J. Swalm’S Story Of Conscientious Objection During World War I, Beth Mark

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Ernest John Swalm, despite being a part of a peace church, was drafted into World War I. In this article, Beth Mark, a librarian from Messiah University, discusses how he has become an symbol for historic peace churches, such as Mennonite and Brethren in Christ, for his experiences as a conscientious objector.

Above And Beyond: Partnering To Co-Lead And Support Cross Cultural Short-Term Study Abroad Courses, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A librarian from Messiah College co-leads a cross-cultural course to China by managing logistics, teaching orientation, incorporating library resources and supervising travel.

Ppp: Preparing For The Publication Process, Beth M. Transue, Tara Jankouskas

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Nurses want to publish, because it will:

• Disseminate new knowledge
• Add to the body of evidence
• Improve patient care beyond your practice

What should an author consider when wanting to publish a scholarly article?

• Writing a Journal Article
• Choose a Journal
• Avoid Predatory Publishers when researching or publishing
• Peer Review Process
• Choose Keywords
• Copyright considerations
• Open access
• Disseminating Results

Not Just Another Assignment: Partnering With Faculty To Assess Student Information Literacy Skills, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A teaching collaboration with an undergraduate nursing assignment. The librarian graded 114 assignments and then provided grades to classroom faculty.

57 nursing students,1 CINAHL Worksheet each,1 PubMed worksheet each

Connectivism And Information Literacy: Moving From Learning Theory To Pedagogical Practice, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Connectivism is an emerging learning theory positing that knowledge comprises networked relationships and that learning comprises the ability to successfully navigate through these networks. Successful pedagogical strategies involve the instructor helping students to identify, navigate, and evaluate information from their learning networks. Many principles of connectivism align with the information literacy standards of the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Librarian educators should consider connectivism learning theory when implementing pedagogical strategies in the network domains of students.

Ebooks In The Academy: Impacts On Learning And Pedagogy, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Presenting problems and possibilities of ebooks in courses in academia. Several studies are cited, in addition to perceptions from Messiah College community.

The Collaborating Librarian: Partnering Across Campus To Assist Assessment Efforts, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Librarians worked with the Provost Office and key campus stakeholders on two related projects to assess syllabi, and library-related assignments.

Assessing Assignments: The Library As Partner In Campus-Wide Assessment, Beth M. Transue, Beth Mark

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Analysis of two campus-wide assessments:

• Syllabi Analysis Project
• Library Assignment Analysis Project

Bad Moon Rising: A Candid Examination Of Digital Reference And What It Means To The Profession, Jonathan D. Lauer, Steve Mckinzie

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

The profound impact of digital reference claimed by its proponents is overstated. Librarians tend to overvalue technology, assume its intrinsic value in improving library operations and services, and undervalue the human factor of librarian expertise and professional competence. Overstating the impact of trends within librarianship is a cyclically recurring phenomenon and the hype surrounding digital reference is a current example. In most libraries, the adoption of digital reference is not likely to be cost effective nor its utility an improvement on structures already in place and functioning well. Librarians have difficult decisions to make regarding the allocation of resources. The …

Bridging The Gap Between Information Literacy And Campus Curricula: Using Curriculum Mapping To Achieve A Holistic Information Literacy Program, Lawrie Merz, Beth Mark, Lisa J. Hinchliffe

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A presentation that explored curriculum mapping of information literacy to the curricular experience at two institutions of higher education: Messiah College (Private) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Public)

Separating Wheat From Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy, Trudi E. Jacobson, Beth Mark

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Many traditional first-year students arrive on college and university campuses with a great deal of experience in searching the Internet. In fact, they can find prodigious amounts of information with relative ease—as evidenced by the lists of Web sites used to document many of their research papers. Most of these students, however, lack the critical-thinking skills and database-searching proficiency necessary for them to fine-tune their information searches. They need to know how to focus their topics, where (in addition to the Internet) to search, and how to evaluate and use the information they retrieve—skills commonly encompassed in the phrase “information …

Teaching Anxious Students Skills For The Electronic Library, Beth Mark, Trudi E. Jacobson

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Some students immediately feel at home in today's technology-saturated library, but many others have difficulty navigating the myriad of electronic sources in most academic libraries. It is estimated that as many as one-third of the college students in the United States suffer from technophobia and are anxious about using computers. In addition to coping with computer technology, many first-year college students are intimidated by the size and complexity of academic libraries (Mellon 1986). In short, just when students most need to become competent users of information technology, anxieties can cause them to avoid the library altogether (Warmkessel 1992).

Breaking the …

Personnel: Key To Successful Public Service (Book Review), Jonathan D. Lauer

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Topics covered in the collection range from professional education to conflict resolution to team building and unionization. Of particular merit are contributions by Kathleen M. Heim, Les Pourciau, and Diane Mittermeyer.