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Library Olympics For Student Employees, Melissa Correll, Emily Moran

Library Faculty Scholarship

This cookbook chapter provides instructions that can help librarians celebrate student employees with a year-end appreciation event. Adapt it for use as a training event at the beginning of the year.

What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study Of One University’S Feeder Schools, Melissa Correll

Library Faculty Scholarship

This article describes a local study that seeks to illuminate first-year college students’ prior experiences with research and information literacy (IL) during high school. A small, suburban university surveyed and conducted interviews with librarians at the university’s feeder schools. The high school librarians rated students’ levels of proficiency in IL skills and described their school’s IL programs. Overall, librarians rated students’ IL levels as less than proficient and described several challenges to helping students improve these competencies, including teacher resistance, assignment design, and students’ habits around information. Opportunities exist for academic and school librarians to collaborate to improve IL instruction …

Collaboration At The Center: Librarian, Faculty, And Students Partner To Revive Their Curriculum Lab, Melissa Correll, Jodi Bornstein

Library Faculty Scholarship

This article describes the ongoing impact of a class project on both the library’s work to improve its curriculum materials center (CMC) and the students’ understanding of the impact of project-based learning (PBL) on their work as preservice teachers. Arcadia University’s Landman Library houses a Curriculum Lab, which provides materials and space to support the School of Education. Use of the space and collection was low, and many materials were outdated. An education professor and the liaison librarian partnered with students enrolled in the Designing Learning Environments course (ED411) to develop a plan to improve the Curriculum Lab. This real-world …

Unknown And Underused- Sad! Making The Curriculum Lab Great Again, Melissa Correll

Library Faculty Scholarship

Arcadia University’s Landman Library is collaborating with students and faculty in the School of Education to revitalize our Curriculum Lab. The project began in Fall 2016 with a partnership between the liaison librarian and ED 411: Designing Learning Environments, and continues today through an Advisory Group.

Reflective Writing And The Research Process, Larissa Gordon, Daniel Schall

Library Faculty Scholarship

Reflective practices intersect with the growing interest in critical information literacy and the new Framework’s focus on conceptual learning. Composition programs also already engage in reflective practices, so assessing students using these types of assignments can lead to more meaningful faculty/librarian partnerships. This poster discusses a pilot assessment project designed to answer the following questions: Can reflective writing help students think about research as an iterative process that is connected to the writing process? Will that changed thinking improve students’ research and ability to integrate sources into their papers?

Open Access And Irs: Educating And Empowering The Campus Community, Adam N. Hess

Library Faculty Scholarship

With the trend moving toward universities developing their own institutional repositories (IRs), the need to educate and empower the campus to embrace this new space for publishing research has grown exponentially. This session will provide a background on open access and IRs, including the many benefits and complex issues, as well as an overview of the scholarly communication crisis and the importance of authors’ rights education. The session will go on to provide practical examples and guidance from several pilot projects launched at Arcadia University that emphasized open access education and participation.

Big, Fast, And Familiar: Looking At And Past Google As Bff, Calvin H. Wang, Adam N. Hess

Library Faculty Scholarship

An observation of search behavior reveals that users lose the forest for a single tree by clicking on promising search results too quickly. Converse with your BFF to determine what it knows, how much it knows about it, how well it knows it, and then how to use what it knows to move on to the specialists. This session will help you see connections that you might already see intuitively so that you can help users refine their own judgment skills about what Google results are telling them. The presenter will engage participants in analyses of several case studies.

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A Digital Asset Management Philosophy, Adam N. Hess

Library Faculty Scholarship

Librarian Adam Hess offers good advice for budding DAM managers: Forget what you see and form your own vision for digital asset management. Part of the “Librarian Tips for DAM Managers” article series from DAM Guru Program.

Not Gaelic, But Free. Not Free, But Gaelic: The Role Of The Irish Language In Cultural And Political Nationalism In Ireland, Jeanne Buckley

Library Faculty Scholarship

The title of this paper paraphrases a quote by Patrick Pearse, an Irish poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was killed by the British for his participation in the Easter 1916 uprising. These words seem fitting for a discussion on the connection between politics and the Irish language in 19^th and early 20^thcentury Ireland, which this paper addresses.

The Irish language and Ireland’s creation as a nation are intricately linked. After the Great Famine of the 19^th century, the rise of cultural nationalism within Ireland, fueled by its writers, convinced the Irish that they existed …

Usage-Based Collection Evaluation With A Curricular Focus, Karen C. Kohn

Library Faculty Scholarship

Systematic evaluation of a library’s collection can be a useful tool for collection development. After reviewing three evaluation methods and their usefulness for our small academic library, I undertook a usage-based evaluation, focusing on narrow segments of our collection that served specific undergraduate courses. For each section, I collected data on the number of books owned, number of checkouts in the past four years, and number of unique books used. Using examples from the data, I discuss possible ways to interpret and act on the data. I also note how the knowledge gained from this evaluation fits into the larger …

Connecting Aphordably: The Place Of Memorably And Succinctly Stated Truths In Library Research Instruction, Calvin H. Wang

Library Faculty Scholarship

This informal effort sought to generate a list of aphorisms to use in library research instruction sessions that are appropriate for audience members of all abilities and backgrounds. Aphorisms are succinct phrases of truth or opinion. They can be both established phrases that have been repurposed or novel ones that have been fabricated. The result of this effort is a collection that this instructor can employ readily and that audience members understand quickly and can remember easily. This presentation provides a strategy that recipients can individually validate and imitate.

Critical Pedagogy In The Classroom: Library Instruction That Gives Voice To Students And Builds A Community Of Scholars, Michelle Reale

Library Faculty Scholarship

When librarians apply critical pedagogy in a classroom, they can both impart knowledge and ignite breakthrough thinking among students. By partnering with professors and decentralizing the power in the classroom, librarians can tap into knowledge that students already possess and encourage them to express their own ideas. This article describes the process in a 200-level literature interpretation course taught primarily to English majors at Arcadia University.

Targeted Critical Thinking: Effective Use Of Critical Thinking Activities, Calvin Wang

Library Faculty Scholarship

Library instruction can be primed for failure if participants believe librarians have a canned answer for every research effort. Instruction must take place with an understanding of the unique needs of first-year classes and assignments relative to higher level classes and their assignments. Efforts to incorporate critical thinking exercises in suboptimal research efforts contribute to instruction-fatigue for students and librarians. This workshop will embrace the K-12 strategy of identifying the scope and sequence ideal for teaching library research techniques.It will consider appropriate courses and assignments in which to apply critical thinking activities and present ideas for optimizing assignments. Participants will …