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Occupational Design, Visual Communication Design, And Academic Commons Collaborate For Graphic Health Literacy In Philadelphia, Daniel Verbit, Monique Chabot, Beth Shirrell

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Occupational therapy (OT) maximizes health,well-being, and quality of life for all people. Visual Communication Design (VCD) enables people to process and communicate information through the design of objects, environments, and interactions. Gutman Library’s mission is to work collaboratively with the university community to ensure that students successfully achieve institutional learning outcomes. VCD students collaborated with second-year OT students to address the prompt, ‘How might we improve health literacy in Philadelphia?’

Policy Map And Medlineplus For Creating Visual Materials For Underserved Populations In Philadelphia, Daniel Verbit, Monique Chabot, Elizabeth Shirrell

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Low health literacy has a direct impact on the health outcomes of non and low-English speaking Populations. This poster showcases the result of a collaboration between the Library, Visual Design Communication and Occupational Therapy to address specific health literacy and access issues in Philadelphia. These projects included traditional health literacy materials such as flyers and brochures, but also innovative materials such as phone applications, kit boxes for social support programs, graphic novels, advertising campaigns, and community interactive murals. These were created to address the needs of a variety of populations ranging from children with asthma, children living with trauma, teenagers …

Keynote: Using Cultural Humility To Create And Sustain An Equitable, Welcoming Workplace, Twanna K. Hodge

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Cultural humility urges us to engage in critical, consistent self-reflection and critique, being other-oriented, redressing power imbalances as vital to moving towards a more equitable and inclusive profession. Retention is not solely the responsibility of the individual, nor is mentoring going to singlehandedly aid in retention. Retention involves, strategic, intentional, and communal actions. It is active, not passive.

In this presentation, Twanna Hodge will provide an overview of cultural humility, explain its importance in librarianship, provide elements of a cultural humility framework, share retention strategies, and offer how cultural humility can be used as a retention strategy.

The 'Missing' Link: A Collaborative Effort To Improve The Accuracy Of Our Holdings, Angelina Brown, Kelly Hayden

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Campbell Library, the Glassboro Campus branch of Rowan University Libraries houses a physical collection of over 300,000 books and DVDs. Two years ago, Campbell Library conducted the first inventory of this collection in almost two decades. This inventory uncovered approximately 8500 missing items. This discovery lead us to ask the questions: What is our policy on missing items? How long should missing items remain in the catalog? Should missing items be viewable in the OPAC? Can these items be replaced? It was quickly realized that there was no guidance or past policy in regards to reconciling missing items in the …

"Forming" A Collaborative Resolution To Ezproxy Host Errors, Lauren Gibbs

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When a library user finds an electronic resource that is not properly configured for access through Ezproxy, an error message states that a host error has occurred. This error message, full of text and technical jargon, can be confusing to users. The page also does not give users an easy option to report the problem or a way to navigate back to where they started. As a result, Electronic Resources staff at Rowan University rarely received notifications of host errors from users. In order to improve user experience and correct host errors, a Google Form was created and customized to …

Librarians As Partner Teachers: Rewards And Challenges, Jen Hasse, Ellie Knickman

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After a long period of exploration, in 2015, Cabrini University added an information literacy component to its freshman seminar, Engagements with the Common Good (ECG). Librarians teach 25% of the course. Class content mirrors the progress of the course topic, which varies by professor. This requires that the librarian go beyond the traditional supportive role of providing students with skills necessary to complete course assignments, and make significant contributions to the teaching and learning of course topics and themes.

Overall response to the component is favorable, but librarians note challenges that impact the quality of the course. Currently four librarians …

Creating A Collaborative Space: Going From Drab To Fab, Matt Mcnelis

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Over the past year the PCOM Library transformed a group study room into a collaborative work space, highlighted by the installation of a fifty-five inch touchscreen monitor, computer and webcam. Patrons are welcome to interact with the equipment in multiple ways: they can login to the computer attached to the monitor, connect their laptop to the screen with a cable, or connect wirelessly by using the Solstice app. Multiple programs have been installed on the computer to encourage collaboration, including data visualization programs, conference applications (used in conjunction with the webcam), and programs that take advantage of the touchscreen monitor. …

Collaboration, Communication, And Outreach - Finding Interesting Ways To Collaborate With Non-Library Departments And Engage Students, Susan Tsiouris

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Collaboration, Communication, and Outreach - Finding interesting ways to collaborate with non-Library Departments and engage students. Examples of collaborations: Mindfulness event with a Faculty member who is a Buddhist monk, Resume and Cover Letter Clinics with Career Services and the Writing Center, New student mini golf at the library working with Student Services, Book Club with Extended Learning/OLLI students, and more in planning phases. It's a matter of stressing the importance of library as place while working with other departments on campus. It is amazing what you will learn.

Building Collaborative Relationships Through Digital Projects, Mike Benson, Jonathan Jiras

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The Rowan Public Art project (http://publicart.rowan.edu) is an online, interactive digital scholarship website of campus public art. The project includes descriptions of Rowan's public art including original photography and video, an interactive campus map, and links to library resources on the art, the artists, and public art in general.

Digital scholarship projects like this offer libraries ways to collaborate across campus, position the library as leaders in collaboration, and demonstrate that the library is an effective collaboration partner. This project has allowed us to support the efforts and successes of others across campus.

We have collaborated in the creation of …

The Courage To Collaborate: Library Leadership Across The Organization, Sarah Clarke

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Space Upgrades: Review, Plan And Implement, Susan Fink

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Library administrators need to be able to demonstrate their department’s impact and value. An initial step in this assessment process is conducting space and usage studies. Rowan University Campbell Library’s study has helped influence decisions that impacted building renovations and services and began quantitatively demonstrating the library’s value.

Unknown And Underused, Sad! Making The Curriculum Lab Great Again, Melissa Correll

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Arcadia University’s Landman Library hosts a Curriculum Lab to support students in the School of Education, but the space and its collection are underused. This poster details the current project to revitalize the space, in direct collaboration with faculty and students in the School of Education.

Beam It!, Amanda Adams, Sharon Whitfield

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The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) Library is using BluuBeam technology, a proximity beacon, to engage patrons and push information to them. CMSRU librarians send “beams” to supplement the curriculum and provide resource assistance virtually. The CMSRU Library received the Health Sciences Librarian Project grant funding award from the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) of NLM, National Institutes of Health (NIH) to engage in this research. The goal, which is not yet complete, is to assess whether students’ use of library resources during case-based sessions changes when libraries send supplemental material, library tutorials, and reminders of resources that pertain …

Leading Change, Debbie Gaspar

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Leading change draws on soft skills, technical skills, and organization acumen. Implementing change is challenging as planning must address existing practices and the web of interpersonal relationships. How can leaders anticipate and plan for the impact on staff members as they guide them through the three steps of organizational change?

Open Educational Resources: An Initiative At Bucks County Community College, Mary Ellen Bornak, Jacqueline Burger, Linda Mccann, Bill Hemmig

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Bucks is engaged in a two-year strategic initiative to transition sections of 10 gateway courses to the exclusive use of resources that are free to students. Librarians play a key role in guiding the identification, evaluation and promotion of OER and library resources and in the interpretation of licensing.