Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Wayfinding Meets Library App: What Students Want From A Mobile Library Experience, Teagan Eastman, Whitney Lewis, Breanne Krystine Litts

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Wayfinding refers to how someone navigates a space. Indoor maps, directories, and more recently, digital mobile maps are used as wayfinding aids.

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Author And Funder Ids, Andrea Payant, Betty Rozum

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Memes Of Resistance, Election Reflections, And Voices From Drug Court: Social Justice, Ethical Cataloging, And Digital Humanities At Utah State University, Margaret Kruesi, Lynne Mcneill, Andrea Payant, Sara Skindelien, Jeannie Thomas, Randy Williams, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Ark Detriumph: Linking Finding Aids & Digital Libraries Using A Low-Tech Approach, Andrea Payant, Sara Skindelien, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Collaborating In The Academic Library: Reports From A New Government Information Librarian, Jennifer Kirk

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Vocab For Collaboration: How “Work Language” Can Help You Win At Teamwork, Bianca Biesinger, Andrea Payant, Darcy Pumphrey, Sara Skindelien, Randy Williams, Rachel Wishkoski, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Librarians And Instructional Designers As Partners: Advancing Institutional Missions, Teagan Eastman, Erin Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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How To Rate A Book: Goodreads, Taste, And Reading In The 21st Century, Dylan Burns

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

“What shall the individual who still desires to read attempt to read this late in history?” asks Harold Bloom. Writing at the end of the 20^th century, Bloom’s quote anticipates the information explosion that the age of the internet brought to the reader (even if his emphasis is on the unpopularity of reading rather than the explosion in options). Social media sites like Goodreads prove that reading is still popular, yet Bloom’s question of what does someone read is still salient. More than ever, reading is a social activity, to be shared, debated, and justified between millions of would …

What We Stand To Gain: Librarians Leading Collaborative Assignment Design, Kacy Lundstrom, Rachel Wishkoski, Erin Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

One of many shifting areas for academic librarians is their role in the design of research assignments. While many librarians possess both expertise and the desire to engage in assignment design, doing so in practice requires deep collaboration and careful role negotiation with discipline faculty. Faculty, who themselves have varied degrees of formal pedagogical training, may not recognize librarians as teachers with this instructional design expertise. Finding the “collaboration sweet spot” can be difficult to achieve in spite of best intentions (Junisabai, Lowe, & Tagge, 2016). However, librarian participation in creating authentic, scaffolded research opportunities is crucial if we are …

Charting Communication: Assessment And Visualization Tools For Mapping The Communication Patterns Of Cataloging And Metadata Units, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott, Andrea Payant

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Capturing Voices In The Heat Of The Moment: Election Reflections 2016, Randy Williams, Liz Woolcott, Jennifer Duncan

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

At Utah State University Libraries, we have a tradition of community-driven oral history efforts aimed at bringing the voices of the underserved and underheard communities into our Special Collections & Archives for preservation and presentation. This effort is called Northern Utah Speaks.

Outside In: Retooling Cataloging Outreach Efforts, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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No Really, We Can Help With This: Librarians Facilitating Research Assignment Design, Rachel Wishkoski, Kacy Lundstrom, Erin Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Premises:

• Students need scaffolded, authentic opportunities to practice and develop research skills.
• Interdisciplinary faculty collaboration on assignment redesign facilitates peer feedback that isn't usually available.
• Bringing librarians to the assignment design table establishes stronger connections with and among teaching faculty and promotes deeper learning opportunities for students.

Key principles:

• Reflect on where students get stuck.
• Make the implicit explicit.
• Scaffold the research process.
• Offer formative assessment and opportunities for peer learning.
• Consider authentic, "renewable," or public-facing end products.

Library E-Learning Tools: Developing Student Research Skills, Erin Davis, Teagan Eastman

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Paws And Breathe: How Pet Therapy Thrives In An Academic Library, Pamela N. Martin, Andrea Krebs, William Rozum

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Since the spring of 2014, the Merrill-Cazier library has offered stress-relieving activities during finals week to help students cope with their heavy workloads. The most popular activity offered (by far) is pet therapy. In the past, the library offered two sessions during finals week, but because of positive feedback and the huge student turnout at these sessions, the library has started to make pet therapy a weekly occurrence. Thanks to the kindness of our volunteer handlers, the therapy dogs have started to come to the library every Tuesday, and the feedback from students has been overwhelmingly positive.

Pet therapy does …

Choose Your Own Research Adventure: Developing A Technical Services-Based Research Project., Liz Woolcott, Jeremy Myntti

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Now What Do You Want Me To Do? New And Emerging Roles For Cataloging And Metadata Librarians., Liz Woolcott, Jeremy Myntti

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Your Librarian: Breaking Down Barriers With Emotional Design, Britt A. Fagerheim, Alex J. Sundt

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

There can be many barriers between undergraduates and subject librarians: a poor web presence, lack of awareness, and crucially, reluctance to seek help. To reduce this friction, USU libraries have explored a web design concept that is more emotionally-engaging and presents librarians as friendly, capable partners in the research process.

Digital Strategies For Personalizing The Book-A-Librarian Process, Britt A. Fagerheim, Alex J. Sundt

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

On-demand consultations extend librarians beyond the classroom, supporting critical, one-on-one library instruction. But a successful consultation service requires more than a simple "build it and they will come" digital strategy, as users face numerous challenges in understanding their options, overcoming library anxiety, and finding the right expert to meet their needs. Following up on a prototype introduced last year, presenters will discuss research-informed design concepts and demonstrate a more engaging, friendlier interface for on-demand librarian consultations.

Beyond The Publishing Social Contract: University Presses And The Institutional Repository, Dylan Burns

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The last thirty years have been a period of marked crisis and promise in the world of scholarly publishing. On one hand the "serial crisis" has crushed the academic librarian budget to the point where cuts are more prevalent than new purchases, but on the other the promise of open access allows for new investigative playgrounds for scholars and students across the world that are often outside of these dwindling budgets. Citing these challenges Dan Cohen wonders about the “social contract” of scholarly publishing, or the larger agreement between authors and readers on quality and availability of academic work. In …

Getting Libguide Ux Just Right: Balancing Consistency, Nutrition, & Taste, Teagan Eastman, Alex J. Sundt

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Ghosts In The Ir: Integrating Student Folklore Into Our Online Collections, Dylan Burns, Alex J. Sundt

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

For decades, student folklorists have been collecting stories, jokes, and tall tales from their neighbors in our community. This is an integral part of research lives of students as well as an essential collection for those interested in American folklives. This poster explores the design of an online database and preservation process for this collection as well as ongoing digitization efforts to make this work available to larger scholarly communities.

Organization And Structure Of Cataloging Units In Academic Libraries Research Project, Liz Woolcott, Jeremy Myntti

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Simplifying The Library Experience: Better Serving Regional Campus Users, Alex J. Sundt, Teagan Eastman, Erin Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Are you struggling to understand the needs of library users on at your institution’s regional campuses or centers? Learn how to design usability test strategies to gather information on distance users’ research habits and how to use the data to better tailor online library services to meet their needs.

Linking People: Collaborations Between Metadata Librarians And Programmers, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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More Than A Mausoleum: The Library At The Forefront Of Digital Pedagogy, Dylan Burns

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Some of the more nostalgic set have opined about the “death” of the traditional library and how universities need to “Save the stacks.” Are we losing the traditional library to chase digital trends?

This paper will argue that the incorporation of Digital Humanities into the library is leading to an explosion of new collections adventures. If we take one definition of Digital Humanities as the presentation of humanities research through digital means as Josh Honn suggests ("Never Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the Humanities" [2013], 6), a shift in focus toward the Digital is providing new …