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Are You Ready For A Non-Binary Job Applicant And Co-Worker? Creating A Fabulous And Accepting Workplace For Non-Binary Employees, Mark Bieraugel

Library Scholarship

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Power Characterization: Measuring Adhesion Forces, Kacie Bradfish

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

Powder behavior is a complex topic that influences many industrial processes, especially those involved with food and pharmaceutical processing, and has an important role in homeland security and military applications involving explosives and explosive residues. The goal of the research is to be able to predict bulk flow behavior from milligram-level quantities of powder. This is important for designing better industrial processes, and also for measuring forces between explosive particles and binders for controlling detonations. In order to characterize a powder, a centrifuge is used to determine the rotational speed, in RPM, needed to remove particles of different size from …

Lights, Camera, Introduction Videos! Producing High-Quality Introductory Videos, Shelby Huddleston

SIDLIT Conference

This presentation is about how to create effective videos for teaching and learning in a higher education environment.

More Than You Can Be: Unconventional Usage Of An Institutional Repository In Etd Administrative Processes​, Jaime Goldman, Keri Baker

Staff Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Oceanographic Campus Library has always had a unique challenge in that it is the final clearing house for student capstone, thesis, and dissertation binding and publication. The library has traditionally been the host of the final print publication and the liaison between the student and the bindery. With the launch of NSUWorks, NSU’s institutional repository, 6 years ago, the library worked to develop an innovative and effective start to finish workflow for student Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) to change the physical lifecycle of NSU’s theses and dissertations into a virtual ETD lifecycle. Every step of …

Distance And Its Effect On Betta Aggression, Sydnie Hanson

STAR Program Research Presentations

Betta Splendens are typically known to act very aggressive towards one another, especially between two males. These acts of aggression are shown through flaring of ones fins, chasing and striking opposing Bettas, biting, etc. This experiment shows how distance affects how aggressive male Bettas are with one another

Digital Educational Material For Jccc's Contemporary Native Art Collection, Allison C. Smith

Sabbatical Projects

My sabbatical project involves the creation of extensive digital educational material on the Nerman Museum’s American Indian art collection. The materials will be used to create content for a new art history course on Native American Art as well as for use by museum staff, museum docents, faculty, and Noon at the Nerman presenters.

Enhance Student Learning With Simulations, April Robbs, Jason Williams, Suzan Rhoades

SIDLIT Conference

Have you considered using a learning simulation in your course? Three instructional designers introduce attendees to simulations used in Ottawa University programs and share processes for evaluating and selecting simulations, implementing them, and assessing the learning experience. We share examples for enhancing courses in biology, human resources, and nursing.

Get An Accessibility Rope! Build A Consistent & Accessible Syllabus For Blackboard Courses Usingsalsa & You Won't Even Need A Rope, Eddie Andreo, Shelby Huddleston

SIDLIT Conference

This presentation is about versioning syllabi to be consistent and accessible on the Blackboard LMS using SALSA.

Transitioning To All Digital Theses Deposits, Todd Bruns

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group 2019 Meeting

Eastern Illinois University has utilized a moderated deposit method for incorporating theses into our institutional repository, The Keep: Students deliver print copies of their thesis to the library, which are then scanned, digitized, and uploaded to our catalog and the IR. Over the course of the past six months we have worked toward transitioning to all digital uploading. This discussion presents lessons learned and developed work-arounds that may benefit other institutions moving in the same direction.

Open Access, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

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Copyright, Sarah A. Norris

Camp COMPASS

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Tipasa Acquuisitions Integration, Crissy Ross, Erin Smith

Conference Presentations

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Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Lunch Session: Drug Patents, Sarah Norris, Missy Murphey

Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Series

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Oclc Update, Cathy King

Conference Presentations

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The Blockbuster Model In A Netflix World, Zach Lane

Conference Presentations

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Use Your Ill System More Efficiently, Alena Miller

Conference Presentations

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Librarians Do That? Three Applications Of Business Information Literacy Outside Of The Library, Ilana Stonebraker

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

In this short talk I will describe some of the work I am doing with the non-profit supporting immigrant owned-businesses, the work I do with government involving quality of life, work in leadership development and supporting entrepreneurship.

Technical Standards Literacy In Management Education, Heather A. Howard, Margaret Phillips

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Industry standards have a significant impact on business as a means to eliminate waste, reduce costs, market products (e.g., for quality, safety, interoperability) and lessen liability (Thompson, 2011). Consequently, an understanding of and ability to use standards, agreed upon practices among interested or vested parties, is a critical workplace competency for those engaged in business and industry. To have a workforce competent in the use of standards, higher education curricula must be developed to integrate standards education at appropriate points within the curriculum. Despite the importance of standards, they are not universally integrated into the college and university curricula. Given …

Business Librarians Confronting Predatory Publishing, Marydee Ojala

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Predatory publishing is a scourge on the information/library landscape. They waste time, spread spurious information, diminish the power of scholarly research, and damage reputations. Cabell’s lists over 12,000 titles in its Blacklist, most of them in the sciences. Should business librarians be concerned about predatory journals? How can we help our faculty and grad students avoid publishing in fake titles, dissuade them from accepting invitations to be on editorial boards of shoddy journals, and warn them about deceptive conferences?

I'Ll Take Business Databases For 500, Christine Kickels

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Has your library struggled with how to roll out or sunset a new database? Ours has. We use emails, blog posts and peer to peer training, but haven't really been happy with the results. In a culture of assessment and gaming, it was time to try something else. This year we incorporated Quizizz and Kahoot into our rollouts with much success. I'll share our assessments as well as things we learned about the process.

A Lightning Introduction To Wrds, Ash Faulkner

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Wharton Research Data Services (commonly known as 'WRDS') is an essential data platform on many university campuses with a research-intensive business program. The platform can host a wide range of data subscriptions including BoardEx, Compustat, CRSP, IBES, Option Metrics, Thompson Reuters data and much more. Often a WRDS subscription is funded through the business program, rather than through the library, but it is essential that business librarians are familiar with this source and if at all possible are able to access and efficiently work through some of the more common data pull requests. As data literacy becomes an increasingly important …

Keeping Your Library Relevant For Your Users- Engine Parts Petting Zoo, Gabriele Hysong

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

As corporate libraries are downsized or even closed how do information professionals keep their libraries relevant?

Mapping Il Skills To The Departmental Curriculum, Naomi Schemm

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Problem: some departments use your services heavily for IL instruction, to the point that content gets repetitive for some students. Others use your instruction not at all. Other class visits are hit or miss, based on whether or not you have a relationship with that particular instructor. Attempted solution: mapping specific information literacy skills and database usage onto certain critical classes in a given major. The presenter is piloting this curriculum & IL-skills mapping with the Marketing department in summer 2019, and will give an update on her progress thus far.

Lightning Talk: Use Of The Research Consultation As A Professional Skills Activity, Lumarie Guth

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

A public university with 4000 business majors instituted a professional readiness program requiring students to take part in engagement activities to acquire business skills. A research consultation with the business librarian became an option for an upper-level engagement in critical thinking. This talk will present on the genesis and growth of the partnership (including data on students impacted), changes made to improve access to research consultations, and changes made to the research consultation to enhance the experience and encourage student success.

Business Liaison Librarians: Creating & Connecting Communities, Annette Bochenek

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Business Liaison Librarian Dr. Annette Bochenek discusses the duties and responsibilities of her job in the public library setting. In addition to offering an overview of her involvement in the community, dedication to business and job-seekers, group instruction opportunities, and one-on-one appointment specialties, Bochenek will offer a discussion of initiatives she has led in the public library setting in order to engage a broader range of audiences and connect them to the library as a robust resource for their businesses to grow. In particular, Bochenek will discuss ways to connect with home-based businesses, sharing her events to engage members of …

When Databases Are No Longer An Option: Teaching Students About Open Access Resources For Business Information, Teresa Williams

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Academic librarians spend a great deal of time teaching students how to use research databases to find business information, but the unfortunate reality is that students typically lose access to university subscription databases upon commencement. Without adequate training on reliable alternatives, new graduates can find themselves struggling to resolve their information needs as they transition into the business workplace.

To address this issue, the Business Librarian at Butler University Libraries created a Business Research Workshop (BRW) to teach students about open and public access resources for business information. What began a few years ago as a trial offering for five …

Likelihood Of Soil Health Management Systems Users To Adopt Other Conservation Practices In The Big Pine Creek Watershed, Emma Wade

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

Since the 1970s, the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico has been growing due to fertilizer runoff and soil degradation. The hypoxic zone negatively impacts the productivity of aquatic ecosystems and threatens industries that rely on coastal areas. Soil Health Management Systems (SHMS) include farming practices that reduce nutrient runoff and downstream pollution. Farming practices impact downstream waterways, so it is important to understand what influences the adoption of conservation practices such as SHMS. A survey was developed to collect farmland owner/operator demographic information and to determine whether they adopt conservation practices. Five conservation practices were evaluated: SHMS, nutrient …

Expression Of A Copper Transporter Adp-Ribosylation Factor-1 (Arf1) In The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier, Sai Dwibhashyam

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

ADP-ribosylation factor 1 (Arf1) is a GTP binding protein that functions as a secondary messenger in cell signaling to maintain the Golgi architecture for vesicular trafficking. Copper (Cu) is an essential element indispensable for a variety of cellular enzymatic reactions, and its homeostasis is tightly regulated by Cu-transporting ATPases (Cu-ATPases), i.e., ATP7A and ATP7B. Evidence from this lab and others has established that elevated intracellular Cu levels prompt the translocation of ATP7A from the trans-Golgi network (TGN) towards the plasma membrane to facilitate the efflux of Cu. Moreover, literature data suggest that Arf1 is involved in Cu intracellular trafficking. The …

Uncovering The True Diversity Of Chanterelle Mushrooms In Indiana, Jairus Chittenden

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

Chanterelles are some of the most popular wild mushrooms in Indiana and throughout the Midwest. These attractive orange and yellow fungi are a natural delicacy, and the global trade in chanterelles exceeds $1 billion per year. Like so many other clades of fungi, only a fraction of the chanterelles’ true diversity in North America is known to science. Given their economic and ecological value, I believe that chanterelles deserve a phylogenetic analysis using the full capabilities of modern DNA sequencing technology. This project will determine how many species of chanterelles there are within Indiana and how they are related to …

Community-Engaged Research And The Opioid Epidemic, F. Gerard Moeller

Community Engagement Institute

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