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Show, Don't Tell: Embedding Library Services Into The Campus Website And Community, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Oct 2017

Show, Don't Tell: Embedding Library Services Into The Campus Website And Community, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

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The Value Of Library Publishing & Undergraduate Education, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Apr 2013

The Value Of Library Publishing & Undergraduate Education, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Please join us for a special session at ACRL 2013 in Indianapolis to learn about three different library-led publishing programs – digital monographs at Utah State University, undergraduate journals and conferences at Illinois Wesleyan University, and technical reports at Purdue University – and the impact they have had on each university’s broader mission. By lowering barriers and creating opportunities to publish across the entire continuum of scholarly content, these libraries have found new ways to support faculty research, the student experience, and the public university’s role in the state.

At Utah State, the library has enhanced its University Press by …


Information Literacy & Scholarly Communication: Mutually Exclusive Or Naturally Symbiotic?, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Kim Duckett, Julia Gelfand, Cathy Palmer Apr 2013

Information Literacy & Scholarly Communication: Mutually Exclusive Or Naturally Symbiotic?, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Kim Duckett, Julia Gelfand, Cathy Palmer

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Learn specific strategies used by librarians in a variety of roles to successfully develop coherent, campus-wide scholarly communications and information literacy initiatives. Our goal is to expand the scope and culture of collaboration around scholarly communication activities using information literacy as a lens through which to view our outreach, education and advocacy activities. Programmatic efforts to change undergraduate education, instructional activities for the classroom, and new models and roles for subject liaisons will be presented.


Library Publishing And Undergraduate Education: Strategies For Collaboration, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael C. Seeborg, Isaac Gilman Apr 2013

Library Publishing And Undergraduate Education: Strategies For Collaboration, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael C. Seeborg, Isaac Gilman

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Library-based publishing services are increasingly common as libraries seek to provide alternatives for the dissemination of scholarly and creative work. Connecting these services to the educational mission of libraries' institutions is vital for publishing programs' success and sustainability. This panel of librarians and faculty from liberal arts colleges will discuss the educative and advocacy roles that their library publishing programs have developed, and suggest best practices for librarians wishing to implement their own publishing programs.

Isaac Gilman's slides are available via CommonKnowledge.


Building An Outstanding Student Journal In The Ir, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael C. Seeborg Mar 2013

Building An Outstanding Student Journal In The Ir, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Michael C. Seeborg

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Excellence in teaching and learning is at the core of the mission statement at Illinois Wesleyan University, and the repository supports this mission in creative and innovative ways. Among the many collections of student research in Digital Commons @ IWU is the outstanding student journal, the Undergraduate Economic Review, now in its seventh year of production. In this webinar, Stephanie and Michael will talk about the intensive student work and faculty advising that goes into publishing the journal, the benefits participation has brought to students and faculty, and the repository’s role in supporting and cultivating the highest level of …


The Undergraduate In The Repository: Connecting The Dots, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Feb 2012

The Undergraduate In The Repository: Connecting The Dots, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

The focus of this session will be on how the institutional repository can be used as a foundation for educating undergraduate students about issues surrounding open access, author rights and copyright, and how libraries can embed these concepts in information literacy sessions as well as in outreach efforts throughout the academic year. Several initiatives by IWU to highlight undergraduate work will be discussed.


Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher A. Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl Oct 2011

Departing The Desk: Reference, Change And The Art Of Letting Go, Christopher A. Sweet, Sue Stroyan, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Stephanie Davis-Kahl

What happens when librarians decide to radically change their reference service model? Our presentation will discuss the impact of the new model on librarians’ time and workload, student assistant perspectives on their new roles, and the student training program developed to support student assistants at the desk.