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Make Your Cover Letter As Awesome As You Are, Kelly Faulkner, Cary Gouldin

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Do you hate writing cover letters? Wondering how to get noticed among the applicant pool for that dream job? In this interactive workshop we will explore together how to use a job ad as a blueprint for an effective cover letter that is tailored to the interests of the hiring committee. We will address the development of specific examples from your experiences to illustrate your qualifications, as well as strategies for making edits to your existing template for each new application. Participants are encouraged to bring their resume and cover letter long with a job ad to the session. Our …

Getting There Is The Journey: Obtaining Grant Funding For A Professional Experience Abroad, Katy Webb

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Have you ever heard the phrase "international librarianship" and thought the experience was reserved for jetsetters with the means to permanently move abroad? When you read that term now, do you come up with a list of reasons why it could never happen for you, such as a language barrier, taking time off of work, or having no idea how to start? In 2019 and 2022, an academic librarian traveled to the Netherlands on a Fulbright Specialist grant to help a library to assess and plan their scholar's lab. This lightning talk will help you to consider ways to get …

Phone A Friend! Get A Final Answer How To Advocate For Your Library's Budget., Carrie Grimshaw

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Administration at my institution had planned to cut my budget drastically for the next fiscal year. Once I was made aware of the situation, I called as many library directors as I knew so they could help me to advocate for my budget. I was a new academic Library Director and needed help on this. I learned many things but each different personality. All libraries are different and each library faces their own set of budget challenges. After speaking to four different library directors, I was able to brainstorm a list of what the library provides which is valuable to …

Engaging The Next Wave Of Librarians, Chris Cassaday

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Early career librarians have some difficult choices to make when choosing the path before them. Public libraries are by far the most visible and easiest avenues of the field to access, and are typically filled with myriad opportunities for the intrepid librarian even before pursuing an MLIS. Academic libraries however, are barely visible to those beginning their programs, and despite DEAI approaches, may not even be considered by some new librarians. Experience in a public library is not enough for search committees to warrant taking a risk on an academic library applicant who does not have previous publishing or presentation …

Coffee Connections: Rebuilding Connections Among Coworkers In The Library, Edward Junhao Lim, Susanna Cowan

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Learning From Library Student Workers, Alejandro Paz

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Being The Newbie: How To Support The Successful Integration Of A New Librarian, Dymond Bush

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Social And Institutional Empathy To Improve Academic Library Visitor Experience, Eugenia Opuda, Megan Bresnahan, Carolyn Gamtso

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Libraries: Outsiders At The Heart Of The Institution, Callan Bignoli

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Creating And Sustaining A Teaching Community: Discussing The Instruction Exchange At Northeastern University Library, Molly Brown, Lindley Homol, Regina Pagani

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Hired During Covid: Interviewing And Onboarding In A Pandemic, Roslyn Grandy, Lauren M. Fletcher, Rachel Whitney, Faythe Thurman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Advocating For Individual And Collective Agency Through Community, Andrea Baer

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Double Trouble: Supporting Expanded Liaison Roles With A Buddy System, Emily Coxe

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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Radical Empathy: A Person-Centered Approach To Library Management, Sarah Edmonds

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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Creating "Healthy" Connections: What Role Can The Library Play In Fitness And Wellness Programs?, Jennifer Little Kegler

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Changing Your Outlook To Reinvent Your Librarian Role: Finding Balance Between Your Job Description And What You Like To Do, Paulina Borrego, Carol Will

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Implementing An Instruction Exchange Program For Teaching Librarians: Fostering Community, Professional Development, And Collaboration, Regina Pagani, Lindley Homol

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Can I Use A Lifeline? Hand-Offs And High Fives Between The Library And Instructional Design Teams, Laura Hibbler, Esther Brandon, Lance Eaton

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration And Communication With Art, Amy Moore, Dina Mckelvy

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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First Bring Cookies: Reflections, Tools, And Tips On Evolving A Partnership Of Academic Libraries, Galadriel Chilton, Heidi Nance

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Collaborating Across Institutions: Lessons In Planning A Co-Hosted Conference, Sarah Melton, Ellen M. Phillips, John O'Connor

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Turning Missteps Into Stepping Stones: Personal And Professional Growth As An Early Career Academic Librarian, Christina Bell, Naomi Binnie, Brooke Duffy, Gina Levitan, Kelleen Maluski

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

This panel discussion will focus on the challenges and failures we have experienced as new and semi-new academic librarians. The all too familiar trend in libraries has been to do more with less: requests for library services have increased yet our budgets, time, and supplies have all decreased. While institutions have devised creative ways to adapt to new difficulties, including adopting new staffing models, the situation remains the same: we have been hired to do one job but inevitably end up doing much more. How did we as new librarians deal with systemic issues? How has it impacted our professional …

My Misadventures In Scheduling Innovation, Annette M. Vadnais

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

For my poster session I would talk about my personal experience with being granted flex time to work off site one day a month. I used research mostly from the tech world to back up my request. This way I would have some time each month to focus on things that often get pushed down for other items that take priority. This way I would have a whole day to focus on a project or tweaking a current program. I will talk about why I chose to not work from home, and instead chose to work mostly from other libraries. …

Mindset Matters: Developing A Growth Mindset To Reframe Failure In Libraries, Benjamin Peck, Kimberly Burke Sweetman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

The theory of the growth mindset was first described by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck and is an emerging concept within the field of education. It is now also being applied to business theory. Those with a growth mindset hold the belief that intelligence can be developed, leading to a desire to learn and a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see effort as a path to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in other’s successes. As a result, they continually reach higher levels of achievement and a greater sense of free will. …

If You Build It, Will It Collapse? Roadblocks To Building A Regional Repository Community, Erin Jerome, Lisa A. Palmer, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Background: In July 2017 the authors organized a regional user group meeting for librarians who use or were considering Digital Commons, the popular hosted institutional repository platform from bepress. It had been many years since this group had been brought together. Bepress sponsored the meeting and sent a product consultant to participate. The organizers hoped to make this an annual event, and also broaden the scope to all repository platforms. By all accounts, the well-attended New England Digital Commons User Group Meeting was a success and evaluations were positive. Just five days later, however, bepress announced that the company had …

Encouraging Experimentation And Creativity Through Professional Development: Turning Our Failures Into Best Practices, Amanda Piekart, Bonnie Lafazan, Jessica Kiebler

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Without a dedicated librarian in charge of training and development, our librarians are empowered to experiment and explore professional development opportunities to grow within the profession. Several librarians within our department have taken initiative to create a wide range of internal development experiences that foster growth and dialogue.

This session will present the best practices we have identified through our missteps and failures from several internal professional development initiatives. From a weeklong conference to a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter, we have learned how to tackle failures such as lack of participation, confusion from complex processes and overlooked event logistics. Each of …

We've Failed At Diversifying Our Librarian Ranks, Now What ? A Plan For Addressing The "Pipeline" Problem, Annie Sollinger, Isabel Espinal, Pete Smith, Kate Freedman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Like many libraries, at our library, we have tried for many years to racially diversify our profession. One of our librarians even made it to the Library Journal " Movers & Shakers" list for raising awareness of the library profession to students of color through presentations, videos, dinners, and icebreaking activities. But despite our intentions and past efforts, the situation has not improved significantly. Let's face it, we have all failed miserably: currently, the racial composition of librarianship, both at our library and in the librarian profession-at-large, is woefully unrepresentative of the United States’ population. Moreover, despite numerous analyses of …

The Ballad Of The Textbook Annex, Sharon H. Domier

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

Do you remember the theme song for Gilligan's Island? Imagine this in a project setting where a large number of library materials were contracted to be moved to storage in a very quick time-frame, only to discover that a significant number of them were not in the inventory system. A perfect storm of the effects of earlier uncompleted projects, poor implementation planning, quick decisions, and outside challenges threatened to sink our ship. Only the heroic efforts and flexibility of all involved managed to get us to shore without drowning or killing each other. The lessons learned will ensure that we …