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Video Instruction Made To Order: Collaboration Between Librarians And Faculty To Improve Student Theses, Claudia J. Dold

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper traces the collaboration between the librarians in my special library and two academic departments in my university. Our initial discussions led to a deeper understanding of our mutual goals: helping students acquire the research and writing skills they would need to write their master's theses, and their continued engagement in scholarship as future professionals, as consumers, and as producers of new knowledge in their field. The librarians offered a unique solution: a series of fifteen videos that showed, among other topics, how to search the academic databases across disciplines, how to target research and organize the results, and …

The Collaborative Imperative And Information Literacy: Strategies For Librarian-Faculty Partnerships, Susan A. Ariew, James Eison

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This workshop, designed primarily for librarians who work with faculty in higher education or school settings, will explore constructive strategies for forming librarian/instructor partnerships. These strategies will include collaborative planning activities for library instruction sessions, ways to collaborate using course management systems, and the design of post instruction follow up activities.

Incorporating Instructional Design Into Library Instruction Classes, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This webinar offers an overview of the components of the instructional design process. It will also identify how instructional design components can relate to library instruction, and provide concrete examples of how librarians can write instructional objectives as part of the planning process for instructional sessions.

Informed Desk Staffing With Quantified Reference Statistics: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Andy Huse, Barbara Lewis, Matt Torrence

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Andy Huse, Barbara Lewis, Lily Todorinova, and Matt Torrence participated in a panel presentation for RUSA MARS Hot Topics. Their presentation titled "Informed Desk Staffing Through Quantified Reference Statistics” discussed the data collection, data analysis, and decision-making aspects of the Re-envisioning Reference project at the USF Libraries. This project examined the implementation and effectiveness of online data collection tools and the use of their data to inform managerial decisions as to scheduling of desk hours and staffing levels. Interviews with key library administrators were conducted in order to provide an historical perspective as to weaknesses of past data collection and …

Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Barbara Lewis, Andy Huse, Matt Torrence

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic depart- ments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing recommendations to give librarians greater flexibility and to better respond to the information-seeking needs of users. These recommendations were based on statistics of desk usage, collected with the newly adapted online tool Desk Tracker, and structured interviews with library administrators. The taskforce was interested in how these stakeholders use quantitative data in …

Students, Faculty, And The Library: Research At The University Of South Florida, Susan Silver, Matt Torrence, Barbara Lewis, Drew Smith

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This study will assess various aspects of library services and resources from the user perspective, utilizing a number of methodologies, including surveys, usability testing, observation, and focus groups. In-depth examination of how students and faculty use the library will guide our efforts to improve library services and resources and facility that relate to student success.

The Collaborative Imperative Session Three--Online Tlt Group Presentation, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

The topics for this session included defining the organizational culture of collaboration in libraries and higher education institutions, as well as examining librarian-faculty collaboration culture in libraries.

The Collaborative Imperative Session Two--Online Tlt Group Presentation, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This series, designed primarily for librarians who work with faculty in higher education or school settings, will explore constructive strategies for forming librarian/instructor partnerships. These strategies will include collaborative planning activities for library instruction sessions, ways to collaborate using course management systems, and the design of post instruction follow up activities.

The Collaborative Imperative Session One--Online Tlt Group Presentation, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This series, designed primarily for librarians who work with faculty in higher education or school settings, will explore constructive strategies for forming librarian/instructor partnerships. These strategies will include collaborative planning activities for library instruction sessions, ways to collaborate using course management systems, and the design of post instruction follow up activities.

Exploring Writing And Research Connections, Lily Todorinova, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

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Institutional Support For Librarian-Faculty Collaboration: A Personal Reflection Exercise, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This is a reflective exercise to help you consider how ready your organization and institution is in support of collaborative work between librarians and academic faculty members. Please indicate for each item below if these characteristics apply to your organization or institution.

Gale Science In Context, K. Megan Sheffield

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Using Learning Objects To Enhance Distance Reference Services, Susan A. Ariew

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Illiad, Cas, Shibboleth, And Php: The Road To Single Sign-On, Leetta M. Schmidt

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

In 2010 the Interlibrary Loan department of the University of South Florida, Tampa, moved to unify its ILLiad sign on practices and align with the University wide objective toward a single sign-on environment. Initial plans to implement authentication with CAS evolved in response to obstacles and system failures and resulted in an ILLiad, Shibboleth, and CAS combination. This article reviews the migration project and its culmination in a successful, and unique, authentication assembly.

Disaster Mental Health: Building A Research Level Collection, Ardis Hanson, Claudia J. Dold

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This paper discusses the framework and rubric for collection development in the field of disaster mental health. The collection should include the broad range including delivery, law & policy, population, health status, epidemiology (prevalence and incidence data), structural factors, and security; and depth, from introduction and survey level to expert analysis, supported by raw data; over the range of historical to present day events addressing the development of theory, policy, and practice including foreign material for the benefit of different points of view, viewing disaster mental health from the many different perspectives situated within the interests of the Institute/College/USF, including …

20 Tips On Networking (Or Outreach) And Collaboration, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Moving from Outreach to Collaboration: 20 Tips on Networking (or Outreach) and Collaboration.

Writing Center And Library Collaboration: A Telephone Survey Of Academic Libraries, Lily Todorinova

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Writing and researching are highly interrelated processes and there is much overlap between the goals and responsibilities of writing center staff and librarians. There is little evidence, however, that partnership between writing centers and libraries has been instituted as standard practice in academic institutions. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to explore the current state of the relationship between the writing center and the library. A telephone survey was administered to librarians in a sample of 268 academic institutions. The results indicated that only 26.7% of libraries actively collaborate which their university’s writing center. A strong majority of the …

To Use Print Serials Or Not To Use Print Serials: That Is The Survey(Monkey), Matt Torrence, Jared Hoppenfeld

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

A recent Print Serials Review was conducted at the University of South Florida Tampa Library with the intention of replacing low-use print titles with high-demand print or electronic resources. Two concepts motivated this project. 1) Journals have long been an important resource for an academic institution, but the format in which these resources are primarily used has changed with increased electronic availability. 2) Collection development librarians at USF wish to deliver high-demand resources to their faculty and students. In today’s economy, in order to make this concept a reality, low-use titles must be relinquished.

This presentation will consist of two …

Rethinking Collection Development In Disaster Mental Health: An “All Hazards” Model, Claudia J. Dold, Ardis Hanson

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

The connection between weather-related disasters and mental health is bound up in treatment, both acute and long-term, of suddenly vulnerable populations, whether they are in-place survivors, displaced persons, or refugees. The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute (FMHI) Research Library/ University of South Florida Library System has undertaken a collection focus on disaster mental health. We have re-examined the traditional models of collection development and chosen instead to frame our collection development initiative around an ‘all hazards’ model, that allows us to proceed within both a national and international framework. Our model, conceptualized in a matrix of domains …

Connecting To Marginalized Groups Through Web 2.0, Tomaro I. Taylor

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

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Basic Archives Processing Manual For Student Employees And Volunteers, Tomaro I. Taylor

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A step-by-step guide for the arrangement and description of archival collections. Developed for individuals new to archival processing in a special library setting.

Reconfiguring Collection Development For The Future: A Faculty Print Serials Review, Audrey Powers, Matt Torrence, Cheryl Mccoy, Jared Hoppenfeld

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Print and electronic resource selection and deselection are essential collection management processes in academic libraries; however, deselection is often overlooked. During this difficult economic time when accountability is at the forefront of our thinking, the librarians at the University of South Florida are placing higher importance on faculty opinions and advice and including them in the decision-making process. A recent Faculty Print Serials Review was conducted with the intention of replacing low-use print titles with high demand print or electronic resources. Two concepts motivated this project. 1) Journals have long been an important resource for faculty and students of an …

Success Strategies For Thesis Students: Creating A Video Toolbox, Claudia J. Dold, Ardis Hanson

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

With an increase in our pool of users and a cap on hiring, the librarians in our shop needed a way to clone themselves in order to deliver the same good service on which we pride ourselves and on which our constituency has come to rely.

Our proposed solution was to create video segments on how to use the library effectively. Funded by a grant, a project was undertaken to produce a series of fifteen videos designed to guide students through the research and writing skills that their program chairs deem essential for top-quality work. This paper presents the thought …

Keeping Up With The Youtube Generation: Collaborating With Student Video Bloggers To Enhance Instruction, Susan A. Ariew

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

Undergraduates can make significant contributions as members of multimedia production teams for academic libraries. In this case, at USF Tampa Library, an undergraduate “YouTube video blogger” worked with library faculty and graduate students to create an information literacy video, “Databases!” The video was used as part of the USF instruction program during the fall 2006 semester. In addition to an information literacy video, the video team also created a humorous rap video that included an anti-anti-plagiarism theme and highlighted USF library services. The video, entitled “The Chronicles of Libraria,” is currently available at the YouTube Web site. This presentation would …

Finding A Voice: Results Of A Youth Participatory Action Research Survey, Richard A. Chapman, Claudia J. Dold

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Participatory action research [PAR] combines systematic research with the development of a practical intervention. PAR methodology draws on the knowledge of the user population to identify problems, to tailor treatments, and to disseminate the results, in combination with professional guidance and project oversight. This exploratory study was designed to gain an understanding of the expectations of the various stakeholders in the system of care for children with mental health challenges: providers of services, researchers, evaluators, youth who had used services, administrators, policy-makers, family, and advocates. We conclude that stakeholders do have reasonable expectations of participatory action research as a process, …

Outreach Blogs: Innovative Strategies For Connecting Libraries To Their Communities, Susan A. Ariew, Gina Clifford

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

An outreach blog can be an effective communication tool that extends and enhances email, listservs, and other traditional forms of correspondence in colleges and universities. At this presentation find out how USF Librarians have used blogging technologies to connect with specific faculty constituencies and to the community at large. Unlike traditional communication tools, blogs offer powerful organizational features that help users to keep abreast of library-related information and updates. Presenters will offer blogging tips and tools tied to questions of content, design, Google gadgets and library 2.0 features. In addition, presenters featured academic library outreach blogs that illustrated best practices.

Beyond The Basics - “Casting A Net” To Provide Customized Research Services For Faculty And Students, Susan A. Ariew, Cheryl Mccoy, Gloria Colvin, Marcia Gorin, Matt Torrence

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

This interactive panel discussion will look at how librarians at two similar institutions can “cast a net” to create “Beyond the Basics” services to support student and faculty research. Florida State University and University of South Florida recently reorganized their reference departments in order to provide more customized services for graduate level and faculty research. Panelists from both schools will engage participants in identifying ways to customize research services at their institutions.

Success Strategies For Thesis Students: Creating A Video Toolbox, Claudia J. Dold, Ardis Hanson

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

With an increase in our pool of users and a cap on hiring, the librarians in our shop needed a way to clone themselves in order to deliver the same good service on which we pride ourselves and on which our constituency has come to rely.

Our proposed solution was to create video segments on how to use the library effectively. Funded by a grant, a project was undertaken to produce a series of fifteen videos designed to guide students through the research and writing skills that their program chairs deem essential for top-quality work. This paper presents the thought …

Improving Information-Seeking Behaviors And Knowledge Base For Thesis Students In The Applied Behavior Analysis Graduate Program And Students In The Rehabilitation And Mental Health Counseling Graduate Program, Claudia J. Dold, Ardis Hanson

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? This grant will serve two masters’ programs within the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences: The Applied Behavior Analysis program and the master’s program in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling.

For the first time, the FMHI Research Library will offer a series of instructional videos, which meet both student and faculty needs, for clear, concise, and measurable goals in the development of student theses. These videos would be incorporated into the coursework as content and as resources for students to refer to 24/7. Our goal is for the students to have videos available to them on the relevant topics …

Youth Driven Research: Finding A Voice, Claudia J. Dold

Academic Services Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.