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The Use Of Marginalia To Inform Patron Needs, Richard Mako

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

This is a presentation of my research in marginalia of students and faculty in a large urban academic library. More than 300 individual examples was collected and then analyzed to determine patron need.

Opportunities Lost: Tracking Denied Service Requests To Advocate For More Resources., Jen Ferguson

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Many academic library staff are well used to tracking their interactions. Many academic library staff are also well used to leveraging data to demonstrate the value of the services they provide. In addition to tracking interactions in our reports to senior leadership, our data services group began reporting the requests we could not meet, such as: the workshops we couldn't deliver, consultations we couldn't provide, and projects we had to regretfully decline. We were not sure how our report detailing services we were unable to deliver would be received, but it was largely met with approval and encouragement, especially amongst …

Taking A Snapshot Of The Academic Library Needs Of Esl/Multilingual First Generation College Students, Kieran Ayton, Laura Faria Tancinco

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

This poster ties into the conference themes of making the library "accessible" to all students (focusing on ESL/MLL student populations) and providing interactive and engaging instruction that holds attention.
While there has been a significant amount of research on how academic librarians can work with multilingual international students, there is a gap in the literature for how academic librarians can best serve multilingual/ESL learners who have completed some or all of their education in the U.S. The learning objective of this poster is to demonstrate the way academic librarians can collaborate with ESL/multilingual learner (MLL) instructors to assess the academic …

Collection Development: It's For Everyone, Alice Pearman, Christin Wixson

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Collection assessment is rising in importance in academic libraries. Identifying gaps in collections, determining which resources are no longer useful, and assessing for diversity, equity and inclusion are all topics of discussion at conferences and in the literature. But why wait to identify the gaps in our collections when we can prevent them now?
Collection development is a skill practiced by most academic subject librarians. However, with many institutions shrinking the number of librarians available to do collection development, not to mention our shrinking materials budgets, this task often doesn't get the attention it deserves.
We will also share how …

Remote Onboarding: Growing And Maintaining Community, Christine R. Elliott, Lauren Movlai

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Partnering With Campus Recreation For Wellness Programs In The Library, Sarah C. Hutton

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Begin At The Beginning: The Importance Of A Written Philosophy In Shaping A New Library Initiative, Kimberly Burke Sweetman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Developing A Sustainable And Measurable First-Year Experience (Fye) Library Session, Tracy Joyce, Joanna Gray, Kara Schwartz

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Center Yourself: Find Your Balance Through Reflective Practices, Sarah Barbrow

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Building Strong Collections For Less Money Through Collaboration, Lorraine Huddy, Katie Bauer, Fred Folmer, Aaron Sandoval

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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When Is A Game Not ‘Just’ A Game: Introducing Climate Change And Information Fluency In A First-Year Engineering Course, Cynthia Carlson, Catherine Wong

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Analysis And Visualization For A Regional Shared Print Program, Matthew I. Revitt

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Mind The Gap: Formalizing Vendor And Library Collaboration, Kathleen Berry, Rose Renyolds, Johanna Radding, Abby Baines, Ebsco

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Serendipity, Symbiosis, Synergy: Finding And Cultivating Collaborative Opportunities, Pamela Hayes-Bohanan, Elizabeth Spievak

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Successful Student Transfer From Community College: Opportunities And Barriers, Kate Freedman, Liza Harrington

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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If At First You Don't Succeed In Your Instruction Methodology, Try, Try Again, Katelyn Angell, Eric Shannon

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Teaching, by its very nature, is a trial and error process. Experimenting with a variety of methods of pedagogies is an integral part of determining which strategies demonstrate the greatest possible learning outcomes. One would be hard-pressed to meet an academic instruction librarian without at least one concrete example of a teaching method or educational activity that was not a success within the library instruction classroom. However, these incidents are critical learning experiences that inspire instruction librarians to grow and develop their teaching practice, hopefully in tandem with student feedback, opportunities for assessment, and the support of departmental colleagues.

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When Your Info Café Fails, Think Of Your Lms As Take-Out: Learning From The Services Students Won’T Use To Create The Services They Will, Elizabeth Chase, Patricia Mcpherson, Heather Perry

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

In 2012 we transformed our obsolete periodicals desk into The Info Cafe, and planned a series of information skills workshops for that meeting space. In an effort to encourage attendance at those drop-in sessions, we partnered with the our institution’s merit point program to offer points to each student who attended a twenty-minute workshop on topics ranging from searching a specific database to using a particular citation style. The merit point system, which was discontinued in 2015, provided a range of opportunities for students to amass points that contributed to their odds of getting their preferred choice in the institution's …

Reframing Failure: Post Mortems For Library Projects, Danielle S. Apfelbaum, Derek Stadler

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As librarians, we often take part in or lead projects and initiatives, but not all of these endeavors succeed; we sometimes experience failure. Whether a solo research effort or a collaborative attempt to improve information literacy skills, not every endeavor may go as planned. Yet, how often do we take a step back and investigate how, what, when, where, and with whom a critical breakdown occurred? The post mortem -- a systematic method for discovering, documenting, and disseminating an actionable summary of the ups and downs of a project’s execution -- offers librarians a valuable tool for reframing failure as …

These Are Not Your Students: How Service Orientation Doomed A Library Instruction Assessment Project And What It Took To Bring It Back To Life, Kathrine C. Aydelott

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

I was new to campus, a faculty member in the library in charge of overseeing our instruction program, and--in pursuit of building my tenure portfolio--I had partnered with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to develop a terrific research project: in order to assess whether our first-year composition students retained their one-shot library orientation instruction, I designed an online Blackboard module to be delivered in “flipped classroom” style. Some classes would see a librarian in class for the traditional lecture-style session, as had been the case for years, while some would complete the module, a series of four …

Fake News: Taking News Evaluation Out Of The Classroom And Into The Fire, Martha Kruy, Briana Mcguckin, Theodora Ruhs, Susan Slaga-Metivier

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As cries of “fake news” weave into popular discourse, university reference and instruction librarians have teamed up with a Journalism professor to lead a workshop tackling a two-pronged issue: defining what fake news is (and isn’t), and evaluating news from several commonly-encountered source types (from videos and memes to more traditional-looking articles online). The goal of this workshop was to spread information and news literacies in a time when they are sorely needed. While this venture began as a campus event, all presenters involved agreed that the tools and resources provided would be especially valuable to communities beyond the classroom. …

Survey Says: Strategies For Responding To Challenging Findings, Erica Schattle, Dorothy Meaney

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As academic libraries are increasingly called on to demonstrate their value, librarians are beginning to define measures of library impact that work both within and across libraries and constituents. Initiatives such as ACRL's Assessment in Action program have sought to quantify library impact on student success through action research and campus collaboration. But what happens when data collected through an action research project tells you something you don't want to learn? This session will share one university library's experiences with shifting focus from measuring user satisfaction to assessing library impact through a biennial survey of students and faculty. Librarians collaborated …