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Algorithmic Literacy As Inclusive Pedagogy, Melanie Sellar

Staff publications, research, and presentations

The call for inclusive pedagogies has captured the wide interest of information literacy practitioners, who are now exploring what it means to teach inclusively and equitably within our discipline. This chapter argues that incorporating algorithmic literacy into our teaching praxis is an inclusive pedagogy, one which not only builds upon much of our professional priorities of the last ten years but also addresses an emerging need. By facilitating student awareness of algorithmic biases, for example, we can help to create a classroom environment that values the experiences and voices of all communities and that equips students with the willingness and …

From The Vault - November 2021 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the newsletter, staff share information about first generation college students, details for the Fall 2021 exhibit, the Samurai & the Cross, news of additions to the Artifact Collection in the SCU Digital Collections, and two blog posts featured on Arthur’s Attic this month, one about the Catalá Crucifix in the Mission Church and the other about marbled papers used in book arts and book binding.

From The Vault - August 2021 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In the August 2021 issue of From the Vault, we reiterate that Archives & Special Collections is open by appointment and announce an early preview of the Samurai and the Cross exhibit and the new collection of mini books we acquired during the pandemic. Additionally, we announce the addition of Ethnic Studies Department newsletters to the Digital Collections and share links of our most recent blog posts.

From The Vault - June 2021 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the Archives & Special Collections newsletter From the Vault, we announce our post-COVID re-opening plans (July 12, 2021 for SCU affiliates), give a shout out to the amazing class of '21, and share some updates on what we've been up to recently, including the entries for SCU in Quarantine, A&SC instruction statistics for the academic year, scholarly output related to our collections, and our recent blog posts.

From The Vault - May 2021 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of From the Vault, we share blog posts about Asian students at SCU, student protests, and celebrate the 60th anniversary of women being admitted to SCU as undergraduates. Additionally, we solicit entries for the SCU in Quarantine: Our Pandemic Stories time capsule, and share the projects of arts students using archival photos.

From The Vault - March 2021 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of From the Vault, we reflect on 1 year of the COVID-19 pandemic, share information about the copies of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello held in Archives & Special Collections, and include links to our four most recent blog posts.

Critical Information Literacy And Critical Service Learning, Andrea E. Brewster, Nicole Branch, Jennifer E. Nutefall

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Critical information literacy (CIL) and critical service learning (CSL) have developed in parallel over recent years but have yet to intersect robustly. Rooted in critical theory, these approaches emphasize both conceptual frameworks and practices that center questions of social inequality in our teaching and learning practices—and in our universities as institutions. A small body of literature suggests that students’ social justice understanding is deepened when engaging with research-intensive assignments. Within this study, we explored students’ understanding of social justice in connection with research-intensive and non–research-intensive course assignments. Using a semi-structured interview technique, we interviewed 23 undergraduate students from 15 different …

From The Vault - December 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this holiday edition of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, our very own Nadia Nasr sends out a video message to give thanks. We also announce that our Scholar Commons will be opening up a social justice themed scholarship series.

From The Vault - November 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this Thanksgiving issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we update patrons on our remote work with classes, researches, and new materials. We also announce our new blog posts featuring the American Prison Newspapers and our work with SCEMBI.

Career Reflections From Library Careers In Academic And Special Libraries, Susan K. Boyd

Staff publications, research, and presentations

My guest speaker presentation covers my background, current career setting, major roles and responsibilities, what I love and find rewarding about my work, and advice for students getting started on their library degree. I also covered the contrast between my current position as an academic librarian and my previous position in the library of a high tech company.

“Of Course It’S There!”: Null Archives & Ohlone Representation In Scu’S Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection, Kelci Baughman Mcdowell, Erin M. Louthen

Staff publications, research, and presentations

In this panel on Intersectional Studies of Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Indigeneity, Erin Louthen and Kelci Baughman McDowell position the Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Collection within the issues of indigenous representation in archives as it relates to the Ohlone in Santa Clara.

From The Vault - September 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we announce the limited reopening of the SCU library. We also announce the Twin Pandemics Forum hosted by SCU Center for Arts and Humanities featuring our very own Erin Louthen and Kelci Baughman McDowell.

From The Vault - July 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we update our patrons on how we’ve been conducting work amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. While quarantining we have been able to host a virtual talk with Professor Panich about his new book, Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta California.

From The Vault - June 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we give our support to the Black Lives Matter movement and provide a Racial Justice Resource Guide. We also show our three part blog post series about SCU during WWII.

From The Vault - May 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

The Archives & Special Collections introduces the first addition of our newsletter in order to keep in touch with patrons amidst the Covid-19 pandemic with four new blog posts.

2020 State Of The Library, Jennifer Nutefall, Lev Rickards, Nicole Branch

State of the Library

Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian

• Budget & Library staffing
• Mission, Vision, Values

Lev Rickards, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Scholarly Communication & Open Access
• Archives & Special Collections

Nicole Branch, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement

• Instruction & Assessment
• Space & Access

Where The Recipe Goes Wrong: Stirring Bias Into The Information Mix, Susan K. Boyd

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This instruction session was developed to address an engineering professor’s concern that his students weren’t able to discern between factual and biased information. They weren’t evaluating the information they found, and readily accepted as truth anything pertinent to their research topic. While this plan was done in an elective civil engineering class, it could easily be adapted for any class using controversial and biased sources.

Partners With Passion For The Archives, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

On November 7, 2019, the Sisters of the Holy Family religious congregation located in Fremont, California, celebrated the 148th anniversary of their founding at their community event "Celebrating Our Legacy: Past, Present, and Future," held at the conference center of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, located in Fremont, California. This presentation provides an update to the Sisters of the Holy Family after completion of the SHF Archives transfer to SCU, articulating the reasons why this partnership is important not only to Santa Clara University but also to understanding the history of women in the Catholic Church, as well …

Exploring The Changing Teaching Practices And Needs Of Business Faculty At Santa Clara University, Nicole Branch, Anthony Raymond, Melanie Sellar

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This report will present the findings and recommendations of a study designed to explore Santa Clara University (SCU) business faculty’s current and emerging undergraduate teaching practices. The study was led locally by researchers in the SCU Library, with parallel studies conducted at fourteen other institutions of higher education in the United States during the 2018-19 academic year. These studies were coordinated at the national level by Ithaka S&R, a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change. Ithaka will publish a capstone report of major themes …

Shf (Sisters Of The Holy Family) Archive Homecoming, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

On January 28, 2019, the SHF Archive began a nearly 3,000 mile journey from Fremont, California, to the archival processing facilities of History Associates located in Rockville, Maryland. Seven months later, on August 26, the SHF Archive arrived at its new home at Santa Clara University. This short presentation provides an overview of activities spanning three days during which History Associates and Archives & Special Collections staff unpacked and shelved the SHF collections in their new home.

Getting Beyond "Both Sides": A Faculty-Librarian Pilot To Explore Critical Approaches To Curriculum And Assessment, Nicole Branch, Julia Voss, Loring Pfeiffer

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Existing research (Howard, Serviss, & Rodrigue 2010; Serviss & Jamieson 2015) and initiatives like the Citation Project and Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum describe how students access and use sources, focusing on 1) scholarly sources and 2) instruction by writing faculty. The current "fake news" moment (Skinnell et al. 2018) highlights the need for 1) critical approaches to source use, 2) pedagogy informed by librarians as research experts, and 3) assessment practices rooted in critical approaches. We report preliminary findings from an FYC/library collaboration that supported research-based analytical writing by using information-literacy instruction modules based on the ACRL Framework …

Joined Hands, Joined Archives: Collaborating To Build A Future For Catholic Religious Archives, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

"What do you do when the records of a shrinking community - a community that historically has provided services to every level of society - are in jeopardy?" asked Malachy McCarthy in the November/December 2018 issue of Archival Outlook. "Such is the case for the records of many religious communities that are coming to completion, closure, or merging with other religious communities." Although many congregations have formed or are considering forming joint archives and heritage centers, congregations most at risk are outlier congregations, such as the Sisters of the Holy Family (SHF) in Fremont, California. Drawing momentum from the …

Getting Beyond “Both Sides”: Fyc Instructors & Librarians Working Together To Cultivate Critical Information Literacy With Popular Sources, Loring Pfeiffer, Julia Voss, Nicole Branch

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Last fall, our team of two FYC instructors and one librarian implemented curriculum designed to develop students’ critical information-literacy skills in relation to popular sources. Preliminary results of our work suggest that students’ work with popular sources falls short of CWPA and ACRL goals. In our workshop-style presentation, we ask how other conference attendees instruct students in the assessment and use of popular sources and discuss the pedagogical strategies that we plan to use as we iterate on our work.

Not Stuck In A Drawer: Successfully Implementing A Strategic Plan, Nicole Branch, Jennifer Nutefall

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Discover strategies to successfully manage the implementation of your library’s strategic plan. This session will focus on five activities to successfully implement a strategic plan. These activities make the plan a living document with real connection to the day-to-day work of the entire library. The activities include breaking goals into concrete actions, creating a tracking spreadsheet, assigning leads from library management to each strategic plan objective, conducting quarterly strategic plan update meetings with the library management group, and providing regular communication with the library managers and the entire library staff.

Critical Assessment Practices: A Discussion On When And How To Use Student Learning Data Without Doing Harm, Zoe Fisher, Ebony Magnus, Nicole Branch

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Attendees will gain perspective on critical assessment practices in libraries from three academic librarians currently working with and exploring approaches that incorporate and are rooted in ethical orientations, inclusivity practices, and have impact on student learning as the guiding goal. Critical assessment practices engage critical perspectives and theories to interrogate the structures of power and methodologies that both motivate and facilitate assessment work in academic libraries. This hour-long panel will offer short, ten minute reflections from panelists, followed by twenty minutes of Q&A and discussion.

2019 State Of The Library, Jennifer Nutefall, Lev Rickards, Nicole Branch

State of the Library

Agenda

Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian

• Budget & Library staffing
• Space changes
• Open Access & Social Justice

Lev Rickards, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Support for Open Access
• Allocating the Collections & Access Budget
• Archives & Special Collections

Nicole Branch, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement

• Assessment Projects
• New Initiatives
• Instruction

Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Rhetoric and composition scholars have recently called our attention to the value of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, leading to rich collaborations with archivists and librarians at many institutions. As we engaged our own pedagogical collaboration as a university archivist and English faculty member, we realized that, though we might use slightly different language to articulate them or cite different sources in support of them, many of our learning goals overlapped. As we explored these goals together, we realized that they evidenced a correspondence in our disciplines that we had not explored—one that is reflected in our fields’ recent …

Inclusivity In The Archives: Expanding Undergraduate Pedagogies For Diversity And Inclusion, Amy J. Lueck, Beverlyn Law, Isabella Zhang

English

This chapter uses the experience of two undergraduate students conducting research in their university archives to consider the “hidden curriculum” entailed in archival research at some institutions. When diverse identities and experiences are not represented in our archives, we run the risk of communicating a lack of value for those identities, producing a feeling of marginalization and exclusion for some students and foreclosing an opportunity to build solidarity across difference for others. In light of the limited holdings at many university archives and the increased prevalence of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, the authors draw on research from writing …

Religious Or Secular: Does Religious Affiliation Affect Lgbtqi Collections At Private College And University Libraries?, Sophia Neuhaus

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This research project focuses upon private colleges and universities of different faith traditions and a control group of secular institutions. The central question in this study is whether religious affiliation influences both the college climate for LGBTQI individuals and the resources academic libraries provide to their communities. A secondary question explores how these same institutions might be influenced by the political environment of their host states. For example, do Presbyterian colleges in conservative states differ from those in liberal states? This poster session provides results based upon an examination of 200 secular, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic institutions.

After the …

Trust Issues: Critically Examining The News With The Trust Indicators, Nicole Branch, Leanna Goodwater, Shannon Kealey

Staff publications, research, and presentations

The public's trust in the news has declined to low levels, and evidence shows this distrust has led to barriers between people and groups. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University (SCU) has partnered with over 75 news organizations on a Trust Project to establish industry-wide standards to restore the public's trust in the news. News and social media partners have committed to a set of Trust Indicators including information on sponsorship and ethics, journalists' qualifications, and how stories were researched. SCU librarians will discuss their partnership with the Markkula Center in a pilot project to use …