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Is It Real Or Just A Trace? Ownership, Ephemerality, And Materiality In Social Art, Tammi M. Owens Oct 2013

Is It Real Or Just A Trace? Ownership, Ephemerality, And Materiality In Social Art, Tammi M. Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

1. Is it real or just a trace? Ownership, ephemerality, and materiality in social art Tammi Owens Emerging Services Librarian Winona State University Darrell W. Krueger Library ART955, Art as Ephemera UNC-Chapel Hill October 23, 2013 slideshare.net/tammiowens/

2. Remixers Sharers Bloggers Makers Curators social artists

3. Who owns creativity anything online?

4. Online ≠ Owned Sharing ≠ Stealing Finding ≠ Plagiarizing

5. “… feeds are full of fragments of close friends and strangers, little iridium flares of information, there for a few seconds and gone again. Watch your feed for long enough and get a sense of the quality of …


Government Documents In A Nextgen Catalog, James T. Shaw Oct 2013

Government Documents In A Nextgen Catalog, James T. Shaw

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation, defines the NextGen Catalog, the Knowledge Base in the OCLC WMS Catalog, and managing individual records.


Journeys Of Reconciliation: Institutions Studying Their Relationships To Slavery, Amy Schindler Aug 2013

Journeys Of Reconciliation: Institutions Studying Their Relationships To Slavery, Amy Schindler

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Presentation at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA on August 16, 2013. Session Abstract: During the last decade, several American universities have undertaken formal efforts to document and study their relationships with slavery and racial discrimination. Archival material, the work of archivists, and the creation of new material for university archives have played prominent roles in university projects, which include courses, increased community outreach, public apologies, publications, and research. These multifaceted projects continue to explore the historical and moral questions raised for the institutions.


Feeling Our Way: Emotional Intelligence And Information Literacy Competency, Miriam L. Matteson, Omer Farooq Apr 2013

Feeling Our Way: Emotional Intelligence And Information Literacy Competency, Miriam L. Matteson, Omer Farooq

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Information literacy (IL) continues to be a major area of focus for academic librarians. Even as forces of change in the form of severe budget reductions, loss of positions, shifts in collection management, and changing technologies, have hit libraries hard in the early 21st century, their commitment to providing high quality IL instruction remains strong. An examination of recent strategic plans from academic libraries reveals continued emphasis on the teaching role of librarianship with organizational units dedicated to IL instruction and student engagement.1 IL initiatives across campuses have moved well beyond the traditional face-to-face instruction session and now librarians deliver …


Just A Minute: Delivering Quick Tutorials At The Point Of Need, Tammi M. Owens Mar 2013

Just A Minute: Delivering Quick Tutorials At The Point Of Need, Tammi M. Owens

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

1. Just a Minute:Delivering quick tutorialsat the point of needTammi Owens Library Technology ConferenceEmerging Services Librarian Macalester CollegeWinona State University March 20, 2013

2. “Two minutes… is an eternity on the web.” Jakob Nielsen, 2011

3. Devices proliferate.

4. Informationexhaustionis high.

5. Cut through the NOISE.

6. Make it … pop snapstick flow

7. Make it … pop

8. Popthroughinformationstreams.

9. Pop through anxiety. Not me …Skeered? really … well sort of, yes.

10. Make it … snap

11. Make it (a) snap.

12. Offer help.

13. At the point of need. (Because who’s going to see this part, anyway?) …


Oh, Snap! Using Popular Culture To Reach Undergraduates In Library Instruction, Heidi Blackburn, Cynthia Dudenhöff, Kate Wise Jan 2013

Oh, Snap! Using Popular Culture To Reach Undergraduates In Library Instruction, Heidi Blackburn, Cynthia Dudenhöff, Kate Wise

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Tired of boring, run-of-the-mill library instruction? Want to jazz up your information literacy program and connect with students? Many academic librarians struggle with making instruction sessions interesting and interactive while still incorporating all the information students need to know. This interactive webinar will provide a variety of approaches incorporating pop culture themes into information literacy instruction from several different institutions, as well as allow for participants to share their own experiences. We will provide specific ideas about what works (and what doesn’t), how to incorporate learning outcomes while not losing the pop culture hook, and assessing the impact of these …


It’S All About The 2.0 Bro: A Future Study Of The Impact Of Technology On Millennial Males Choosing The Library Profession, Heidi Blackburn Jan 2013

It’S All About The 2.0 Bro: A Future Study Of The Impact Of Technology On Millennial Males Choosing The Library Profession, Heidi Blackburn

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This poster highlights the Research Question, Select Literature Review, Theoretical Framework, and Possible Methodologies on research studying the Impact of Technology on Millennial Males Choosing the Library Profession.


Take Off Your Jewelry: A ‘Simple’ Approach To Libguides Design, Tammi M. Owens, Allison Quam Jan 2013

Take Off Your Jewelry: A ‘Simple’ Approach To Libguides Design, Tammi M. Owens, Allison Quam

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

1. Take off your jewelry: A “simple” approach to LibGuides design ! “Ornamentation is like jewelry. ! Put on all of your best, 
 then take most of it off.” ! K.K. Merker, literary publisher ! Tammi Owens, Emerging Services Librarian! Allison Quam, Reference Librarian! Winona State University! Subjects landing page.! Research Hub landing page.! Course guides landing page.! •  Keep it simple: design continuity, oneclick database navigation, single-page layouts, no dropdowns, no search boxes! •  Make it scannable: place important information in upper right corner, pull eye across page with right-side photos! •  Control cognitive overload: use 
 white space, fewer …


Getting Graphic: The Issuu With E-Books, Information Literacy And Undergraduate Students, Heidi Blackburn, Kate Wise Jan 2013

Getting Graphic: The Issuu With E-Books, Information Literacy And Undergraduate Students, Heidi Blackburn, Kate Wise

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation features Graphic Novel Project, Goals of Graphic Novel Project, Student Learning Outcomes, Assessment, Legends of the Library Ninjas: A Quest for Knowledge, and How do I publish an e-book?


Legends Of The Library Ninjas: New Frontiers In Library Instruction, Heidi Blackburn, Kate Wise Jan 2013

Legends Of The Library Ninjas: New Frontiers In Library Instruction, Heidi Blackburn, Kate Wise

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Librarians can become disheartened when carefully prepared handouts go in the recycle bin, or are left on chairs and tables when an instruction session ends. The realization that the instruction has become stale is even more discouraging. Recognizing a need for innovative library instruction after reading Matt Upson and Michael Hall’s Library of the Living Dead, and experiencing such student apathy towards their own instruction, the librarians from Kansas State University Salina and Kansas Wesleyan University were inspired to collaborate to create a graphic novel to use as part of library instruction since neither of us felt we could tackle …