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Time Crunch: How To Fit Assessment Into An Already Packed Lesson, Liz Johns, Sara Oestreich

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Learning assessment can be daunting for a librarian who wants to try it out for the first time, or too time consuming for librarians who only get a few minutes with students. But this practical program introduces librarians to common, easy, and quick formative assessments that can immediately be implemented into even the shortest of sessions. This session will help librarians identify key points in example lessons where formative assessment can be inserted, and brainstorm ways to implement the assessments in an effective way.

Assessment On Solid Ground: Collaboration Between Universities And Academic Libraries In The Context Of A Continuous Improvement Plan, Michael Luther, Jen Wells

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Within the context of Kennesaw State University's Continuous Improvement Plan (Improve KSU), the presenters will demonstrate how broad assessments at the university level intersect with the deep dive assessments that are common in academic libraries, and how strong partnerships between university and library assessment professionals can foster symbiotic opportunities.

If You Can't Expand, How Can You Grow? Space Assessment Studies In The Academic Library, Regina Mays, Rachel Fleming-May, Kristina Clement, Brianne Dosch, Alexa Carter, Lauren Johnson, Sian Carr, Jordan Kaufman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

As space in libraries is usually finite and in high demand, how can librarians ensure the best allocation of space to meet users' ever growing and changing needs? A team from the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences and Libraries designed and implemented two academic library space assessment studies to find meaningful answers to these questions as well as learn the principles, methods, and tools of space design and space assessment, many of which they will share with session attendees!

Using Feminist Pedagogy To Create Meaningful Assessment For Learning In One-Shot Library Sessions, Jennifer Foley

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This session will explore the use of formative assessment strategies and Feminist Pedagogical practices to positively impact student learning, and increase the effectiveness of one-shot library instruction sessions. By embracing a democratic approach to teaching, there are a variety of methods for assessment that can improve student cognitive retention, offer immediate feedback, and give insight into the quality and effectiveness of your own teaching.

Post-It Up: Qualitative Data Analysis Of A Test Fest, Sarah Joy Arnold, Chad Haefele

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This session will outline how we planned and executed five simultaneous usability tests and what we learned from using this method. We'll also discuss how we approached analyzing the large amount of qualitative data that was gathered during testing via affinity diagrams and lots of post-it notes. The focus of this session is on our methodologies, though we'll briefly look at the results of each test.

We Have A Strategic Plan - Now What?!, Regina Mays, Michelle Brannen, Manda Sexton

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

With a new strategic plan in hand, the University of Tennessee Libraries has formed a small task force charged with keeping the organization focused on its strategic goals and tracking progress made toward these goals in a systematic way. In this session, members of this task force will report on our process and progress thus far, share the tools we've developed to track and report activity throughout the organization, and engage in a conversation about approaches to creating support and excitement for the strategic plan you worked so hard to create.

Assessment Triple Play: Intense Evaluation Of First Year Students' Information Literacy Skills, Nancy Greco, Christina Hillman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Which assessment is best: programmatic, classroom, or longitudinal? By collaborating with the First Year Program faculty, the St. John Fisher College Library uses a combination of all three, giving us the most holistic view of our college students' information literacy skills. Learn how to combine data from classroom assessment, end of semester course evaluation, and longitudinal standardized testing to tell a story about student learning.

Simplifying The Process: Using Technology To Integrate Event And Program Assessment From Start To Finish, Heather White, Amanda Mclellan

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Event assessment shouldn't be painful or mysterious, so how can we leverage technology to demystify and simplify program and event assessment? This session targets libraries interested in reflecting on their own event and program assessment and how an open-source application may help streamline their processes. This session will illustrate how we identified problems and used technology and thoughtful planning to streamline and demystify the event planning and assessment, resulting in an open-source application that handles event/program requests, approvals, and pre-generated assessment forms.

Georgia Tech Library Assessment: Creating And Sharing A Custom-Made Assessment Tool, Matt Frizzell, Jason Wright

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

After using LibQual+ for nearly 15 years, in 2016 the Georgia Tech Library's Assessment Committee decided to strike out on its own and create an assessment tool better suited to its unique needs.

This presentation delves into the committee's design decisions, methodology, and analysis with a summative view of results. Importantly, you'll learn how results are being used to demonstrate and improve organizational effectiveness.

Collection Change Is Not A Hoax: Using Assessment To Promote Collection Sustainability, Bruce Keisling

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

What do we mean by collection sustainability and how do we measure it? The presenters will discuss how their institution came to a shared understanding of collection sustainability, to develop key metrics for it, and to identify the qualitative and quantitative assessment data that shapes and measures it.

What Do They Need?: Collecting Meaningful And Actionable Data Through A User-Centered Needs Assessment, Mary Anne Hansen, David Swedman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Relying on the power of R and NVivo, Montana State University Library researchers were able to identify user needs from a vast array of data in order to make recommendations for new library services and resources, including more personalized outreach to new students and a concentrated communications campaign.

So You Are A New Assessment Librarian - What Do You Need To Know?, Ron Schwertfeger, Chantelle Swaren

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Hear from assessment librarians who each hold dual roles in academic libraries about how to approach the role of an assessment librarian. Discover their lessons learned regarding incorporating assessment activities in all departments within the library and using assessment data to plan library initiatives.

More Than Just Students: Personal Information Needs Of Esl Community College Students, Jennifer Jeffers

LIS Student Conference

Over a million international students attended U.S. colleges and universities in the 2015-­ 2016 academic year, international student enrollment has risen steadily over the past decade, and the majority of these students come from countries where English is not the primary language (Institute for International Education, 2016). Furthermore, the Pew Research Center reports that “future immigrants and their children will account for 88% of the U.S. population increase between 2016 and 2065” (as cited in Ramakrishnan, Barker, Vervoordt, & Zhang, 2017, p. 1).

Existing studies of international and English as a second language (ESL) students have focused mainly on their …

Meeting The Social Media Needs Of Lexington’S Lgbtq Community, Erin Weber

LIS Student Conference

Erin will present a strategic plan for the social media needs of the Pride Community Services Organization (PCSO) and Pride Library in Lexington. She will include discussion on whether social media is a means to a larger goal or a means unto itself for PCSO.

Tutoring And Writing Center Libguide, Jenna Wolf

LIS Student Conference

No abstract provided.

Discovering Kentucky: What I Learned Processing Public Policy Papers, Sarah Coblentz

LIS Student Conference

Over the course of one year Sarah processed collections relating to public policy as the Earle C. Clements Graduate Assistant at the Special Collections Research Center at UK. Through this position, she was able to learn more about the state of Kentucky and those fighting to protect its history and environment.

Learning About Research Data Services: My Lis 672 Practicum Experience, Steven Pfeiffer

LIS Student Conference

Steven will describe his LIS 672 Practicum currently in progress at the University of Cincinnati Libraries. Especially important is a tool he developed to help researchers generate a ReadMe file for their work.

Menstrupedia: Fighting The Stigma Against Comprehensive Sex Education, Cindy Butor

LIS Student Conference

This poster demonstrates how comics can be used to inform teens about puberty by focusing on the Indian comic Menstrupedia. It has been adapted from a PowerPoint presented at the 2017 Graphic Medicine Conference in Seattle and includes information about graphic medicine, the health-based comics movement.

No Human Right To Sodomy: Christian Conservative Opposition To Sogi Human Rights, Cynthia Burack

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

The American Christian conservative movement is the most consistent and persistent adversary of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) civil rights in the US. In recent years, the Christian right has responded to changes in attitudes to same-sex sexuality in the US by relocating some of their attention and operations to issues and arenas of contest outside the US that hold more promise for implacable antagonism to rights and recognition for LGBTQ people. In some parts of the world, these US-based anti-LGBTQ actors have become recognized as “experts” on gender and sexual minorities and the dire consequences the existence of …

Faith-Based Civil Society Organizations And The Protection Of Victims Of Human Rights Abuses In Nigeria, Nathaniel Umukoro

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Nigeria has witnessed various forms of human rights violations such as extrajudicial killings, rape, and torture during both military and civilian regimes. Amnesty International, the U.S. State Department, and the Political Terror Scale of the Centre for Systemic Peace indicate that Nigeria is a country characterized by generalized human rights violations.

Over the years, several scholars have examined the causes, nature, responses of the state, and reasons for the persistence of human rights violations in Nigeria. A careful consideration of these studies indicates that the role of faith-based civil society organizations in the protection of victims of human rights abuses …

Collective Memory Of Past Human Rights Abuses-South Korea, Ñusta Carranza Ko

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

The discourse on transitional justice by academics and practitioners center upon a common understanding of the importance of truth-seeking or truth-telling, reparations, prosecutions, and other institutional reforms in addressing a state’s past abuses. Policies of memorialization complement these processes of transitional justice, with the production of collective memory and history that helps transitioning states from authoritarian pasts toward reconciliation.

This study builds on the growing interest in memory initiatives by bringing to light the integral and "visible" role memory practices have played in truth-seeking and reparations processes. Particularly, it focuses on the building of collective memory integrated in truth commission …

Understanding Truth: How Commissioners Influence The Final Report Of A Truth Commission, Christine Bianco

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Ensuring a future of human rights means coming to terms with past violations of human rights. This both recognizes human rights as an important position in the policy of the state and helps to end a system of impunity against such actions, even if it is done symbolically. One of the major mechanisms that states have used to address their past has been truth commissions. The strength of truth commissions lies in their ability to bring to light the voices of the victims as well as their ability to criticize those who have committed human rights abuses.

In order to …

Shaming The Truth: Naming And Shaming And Transitional Justice, Christopher F. Patane, Marc S. Polizzi

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

While it is generally recognized that “naming and shaming” carried out by transnational human rights actors can lead to an improvement in aggregate conditions, it is less clear whether this strategy influences more specific behavior. As more states are democratizing, the international community has stepped up efforts at transitional justice to promote accountability and reconciliation. What is unclear is whether this promotion has been positive or negative for the pursuit of transitional justice broadly or if the community prioritizes some mechanisms over others.

In this paper, we examine the role that human rights advocacy plays in the onset of transitional …

We Just Need To Pee: Bathroom Bills And The Intersection Of Human Rights, Gender, And Race, Lena Tenney

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Although rarely publicly discussed, bathrooms are a fundamental element of everyday life. In fact, the majority of the population does not question their right or ability to access public restroom facilities because they are a mundane aspect of daily routine. However, the recent rise of “bathroom bills” in state legislatures has sparked significant media coverage and highlighted activist movements seeking to guarantee safe, affirming, and legally protected access to bathrooms for people of all gender identities and expressions.

This paper will illustrate that bathroom access is not only a matter of public policy, but also a question of human rights. …

The Power And Pathologies Of Language: How Human Rights Messaging Can Also Affect Support For Violent Non-State Actors, Alexandra Haines, Michele Leiby, Matthew Krain

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Are framing strategies that are effective at encouraging pro-social behavior such as participation in human rights campaigns also effective at mobilizing support for “anti-social” and violent causes? Using an experimental research design, we seek to understand under what conditions individuals will express support for retributive violent action.

We hypothesize that a personal story of victimization, wherein the humanity and vulnerability of the victim and the intensity of the violence suffered are described in vivid detail, will be necessary and sufficient to cause the audience to express support for the victim’s subsequent participation in organized, retaliatory violence. We expect that personal …

The 'Nayirah' Effect: The Role Of Target States’ Human Rights Violations And Victims’ Emotive Images In War Support, Joseph Braun, Kiyoung Chang

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

When a target state violates human rights, how does the identity of the victims and the presence of emotive imagery affect the level of public support for interventionist war? How does the perceived race and gender of victims affect this relationship? We employ a survey experiment to study whether and when information about a target state’s human rights violations affects public attitudes toward the use of force. Specifically, we manipulate a fictional victim’s race (light-skinned vs. dark-skinned) and gender (male vs. female), and explore how these variations affect support for interventionist war. In our experiment, we find that war support …

Homophobia, Human Rights And Diplomacy, Douglas Janoff

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Multilateral human rights diplomacy is a product of the triad relationship between intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and states. This paper examines the emergence of LGBT rights within the context of the UN human rights system. Recently, the global debates around LGBT rights have become much more public and increasingly complex: Ministers, leaders, and even the UN Secretary-General routinely call on states to do more to protect sexual minorities. Countries such as Uganda and Russia are labeled “homophobic” — not just by human rights activists, but by other states. These “accusations” are delivered both bilaterally and in multilateral …

Gay Teachers In Catholic Schools: A Conflict Of Human Rights, Ish Ruiz

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

What happens when a person’s exercise of a human right conflicts with another’s enjoyment of a human right? Such is the case when a gay teacher in a Catholic school is fired as the school exercises its right to religious freedom in order to ensure its teachers live lives consistent with Church teaching.

As religious institutions, Catholic schools are protected by a ministerial exception that offers legal immunity to Catholic educational institutions that fire gay and lesbian teachers (teachers are sometimes considered “ministers” by the courts). In many states these firings on the basis of sexual orientation or marital status …

Opening Remarks By Assoc. Prof. Eugene Tan, Eugene K. B. Tan

2017 #Call to Action: Fake News Forum

No abstract provided.

Demystifying Citation Metrics, Michael Ladisch

Pacific Libraries Workshops

Attendees will learn about the benefits and limitations of citation analysis. We will also provide help to find metrics such as h-index or Journal Impact Factor in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Finally, we will give some advice on the use of metrics on your resume.

• Pros and Cons (use and benefits, controversy and limitations)
• Tools (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar)
• Metrics (H-index, Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore)
• Altmetrics
• ORCID ID
• Metrics for CV