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Creating A Social Justice Mindset: Incorporating Diversity, Inclusion, And Social Justice Into All Aspects Of Collections Work At Mit Libraries, Rhonda Kauffman, Michelle Miller

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Academic librarians are increasingly embracing diversity, inclusion, and social justice as values essential to our profession. The MIT Libraries has made a commitment to promoting the values of diversity, inclusion and social justice throughout the entire organization, and has sponsored a task force of the Collections Directorate to identify opportunities for archives, cataloging, acquisitions, preservation, and collections strategy staff to promote diversity, inclusion, and social justice in all aspects of library collections work. Over the course of eight months, the task force explored the topic philosophically and pragmatically. In our final report, we emphasized issues of economic justice, systems of …

Beyond The One-Shot: Creating A Scaleable Online Information Literacy Curriculum, Kate Fuller, Donovan Reinwald

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Students and faculty continue to seek support for traditional library research services, while the library seeks to support and sustain services to a constantly growing university population. By moving our information literacy instruction to an unmediated online curriculum, the library has been able to take advantage of an incredible opportunity to expand our services and maximize our impact on students.

This approach allows us to move our information literacy instruction past the much-lamented “one shot” instructional session. Designed to stand alone or be integrated by faculty into courses, students and faculty will be able to access modules at the point …

3rs: Retirements, Renewal, And Reinvention In Ill: How Ill At A Canadian Arl Library Survived And Thrived Following The Departure Of 50% Of Its Staff In Six Months, Jacki Brazzeal, Cheryl Smeall, Valerie Mayman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As the baby boomer generation ages, workplaces are seeing an explosion of retirements. As is widely acknowledged in the literature, academic libraries are no exception. Much of this literature tends to focus on the impact of professional librarian, rather than library technician, retirements. In 2015, the Central Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Article Scan Service of the McGill University Library, an ARL library located in Montreal, Canada, was comprised of one librarian and seven support staff: four in borrowing, two in lending, and one in the article scan service for locally-owned materials. In the fall of 2015, the ILL team won …

Coming Soon To Acrl | Nec: A New Open Access Repository For Conference Proceedings And Other Materials, Lisa A. Palmer, Karin Heffernan, Laura Wilson, Alan Witt

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

This poster describes a new open access repository being developed to store and disseminate digital materials arising from ACRL | NEC conferences and SIG events. Come learn more about the repository and how your ACRL | NEC group can participate.

Reframing Librarian / Student Worker Relationships Through Collaborative Digital Projects, Annette Leclair, Gail Golderman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

This poster session features examples of a variety of digital projects for which librarians mentored undergraduate students to create enriched website content such as essays, timelines, and interactive maps. Going well beyond the typical kinds of tasks that student workers had been given to do previously, these projects engaged students as scholarly partners in developing websites that not only made newly digitized resources available, but provided attractive and informative background material to enhance their research value. Teaching students the necessary research methodologies, overseeing their technical, design, and written work, verifying its functionality and accuracy, and helping them to understand the …

Reaching Distance And Online Learners Through Virtual Consultations, Lindley Homol

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

When students have complex research questions, we suggest that they come to the reference desk or schedule an in-person appointment with a librarian. But what about students who do not have the option of visiting the physical library? How do we provide the same level of in-depth research assistance to our distance and online learners? One option is to offer web conference consultations for distance and online students, which better approximate the face-to-face research appointment experience than phone or email transactions.

This poster will describe how the library liaison for a predominantly online graduate program took advantage of the library’s …

The Emergence Of The Metadata Cataloger: Are Cataloging And Metadata Two Separate Fields?, Rachel Turner

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As a new Librarian straight out of my MSIS program, I am seeing a shift in the idea of what constitutes the position of “Cataloging Librarian.” As a student worker at UT Austin while in library school, and in my current position as Cataloging Librarian at Binghamton University, I have seen in both places a rising discussion of how cataloging should evolve to keep up with the reframing and rebranding that is taking place throughout all aspects of libraries and librarianship. A common answer that seems to be rising is that cataloging is and needs to continue its reframing to …

Weathering The Storm: Riding The Waves Of An Evolving Profession In Turbulent Times, Jennifer Ditkoff, Elizabeth Dolinger, Patrick Hickey, Irene Mcgarrity

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Librarians are no strangers to re-envisioning themselves. From the closed stacks and “guardians of information” era, to the open learning commons and information desk model, we have evolved as needed to better serve the needs of our communities. As we adapt to changes in technology, information needs, and learning models, we aim to remain viable, maintain sustainable practices, and still feel invigorated by our profession. This can be a struggle given the need to continue some traditional aspects of librarianship, while trying to incorporate innovative information literacy practices, dynamic collection development, and cross-campus collaboration.. Non-library faculty and campus administration often …

What’S In A Contract? Wordsmithing Service Agreements For Better Outcomes, Michael Rodriguez

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As more and more academic libraries outsource technology services and enter into cooperative consortial schemes with other organizations, librarians push into a minefield of contractual negotiations, obligations, and liabilities more complicated and consequential than the typical eresource licenses is. A poorly wordsmithed license may result in loss of access to journals, let's say, whereas becoming entangled in troubled consortia, watching an essential technology go offline during finals week, or getting audited by a vendor without contractual safeguards or recourse can produce much greater financial and administrative burdens. This presentation will deliver a crash course in negotiating service contracts favorable to …

Digital Initiatives Bootcamp: Launching Digital Projects At Small Institutions With Limited Resources, Amy Bocko

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

The modern library has seen a new area of our holdings and collection efforts emerge: unique digital collections. As our users’ needs and fluency with technology have changed, so have our library services and avenues for information delivery. Our users want digital materials at the ready, and they want them now! While our holdings have easily adapted to acquiring additional databases and new ebooks, how do we address the growing need for our unique materials to be digitized? Moreover, how do small, resource strapped institutions fulfill this need? Our directive is clear: our libraries need to commit to digital initiatives …

Bringing Down The Empire: Remaking Our Work, Our Libraries, Our Selves, Suzanne L. Wones

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations, Suzanne leads the development and implementation of digital strategies for the Harvard Library community. Her work includes examining trends in information technology and digital library development and identifying opportunities for innovation within the Library and with external partners.

During her fifteen years as a Harvard librarian, Wones has advocated for user-focused innovations and developing creative solutions to advance the mission of the University.

As Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Library, she led operations and programmatic efforts, as well as strategic planning and budget management. Suzanne also stewarded faculty/library relationships, and …