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Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, Inclusion, And Academic Success, Janelle Wertzberger, Mary Elmquist

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Are you curious about how a textbook choice can influence students’ sense of belonging and their academic success?

Open textbooks are full, real textbooks used by many professors here at Gettysburg and across the U.S. They are completely free to access online and also free of most copyright restrictions, meaning it’s legal to copy, share, edit, mix, keep and use those materials. Adopting an open textbook ensures that all students have immediate access to a zero-cost book and provides faculty 100% control over their learning materials. Attend this workshop to learn more about how an open textbook may align with …

Academic Libraries’ Roles In Campus-Wide Student Success Initiatives, Mallory Jallas, Chad M. Kahl, Jennifer Sharkey, Chris Worland

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Academic libraries play multifaceted roles in connection to student success. Successful partnerships between student success-focused units and libraries are essential to building a supportive environment for students. The presenters will share the initial findings examining student success initiatives within university and college libraries in North America. Specifically, the researchers will discuss the findings from focus groups conducted with Student Success Librarians and the ways they engage with campus partners to implement student success initiatives.

Better Together: Academic Libraries And Campus Collaborations For Student Success, Mallory Jallas, Jennifer Sharkey, Chris Worland, Chad Kahl

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Academic libraries are increasingly aligning their goals and resources to support student success on their campuses. This work can combine responsibilities like information literacy instruction, library outreach, and campus collaboration. This presentation will delve into the findings of a national survey and focus groups about student success efforts in academic libraries to provide insight into strategies for campus collaboration. Participants will identify potential partnership opportunities to increase collaboration, examine roadblocks to success, and develop takeaways for expanding their approach to working with campus partners.

What's Your Research Personality? A New Way Of Engaging Students In Resource And Service Discovery Through A Homegrown Quiz App, Troy Walker, Veronica Bielat

Library Scholarly Publications

How can libraries push resource and service information to students in engaging ways? Influenced by social media personality quizzes, we designed a questionnaire-style app that uses learning preferences and personality traits to connect students with the library resources they need most. This LOEX 2022 session will demonstrate how libraries can use innovative approaches with their existing resources to draw students in. We will use our Research Personality Quiz as a starting point to discuss design approaches for similar projects and explore the technical challenges that may be encountered (and overcome) in creating and launching similar types of quiz apps.

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Student Success & Retention And University Libraries, Jennifer Mayer

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Join us to learn more about UNC’s student demographics and share ideas about how to retain students across the institution. This two-day event is being held for UNC faculty, staff, and students under the leadership of our Graduation and Retention Taskforce and is part of our Higher Learning Commission Quality Initiative to continue to improve our retention efforts. This presentation is about libraries and impact on student academic success.