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Codec Of Wv - West Virginia Academic Database Consortium, Heather A. Lauer, Kathleen Phillips, Heather Shock Campbell

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

The community and technical college institutions will be working with WVLC to create an academic library database consortium (CODEC) to provide common databases across academic institutions starting with the community colleges. This process will be administered through the West Virginia Library Commission, starting July 1, 2017. Year One will provide services to community and technical colleges. There will be efforts to include interested parties from four-year public and private institutions in subsequent years.

Partnering Literacy With Problem Solving, Audrey Pitonak-Goff

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

The development of reading comprehension and critical thinking skills are imperative for the foundation on which students can build a successful education. Let’s explore ways to partner literacy with math in community wide programming.

Employment Law And Human Resources: Best Practices, Dennis Taylor

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

This presentation will address various employment issues of which all libraries need to be aware; including discrimination, hiring practices, termination practices, employment manuals, privacy and workplace information access laws and wage and benefit laws.

Finding Mrs. Miller: How A Library Resurrected The Legacy Of A Forgotten Author, Belinda Anderson

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller was one of the best paid literary women in the world in the 19^th century. Her income built the Cedars, an estate in Alderson, inGreenbrierCounty, that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Once, it would have been nearly impossible to find a copy of Mrs. Miller’s work Then, in a twist of fate unlikely by even Mrs. Miller’s plot standards, a university library stumbled across a cache of her novels.

Meanwhile, author Belinda Anderson came across Mrs. Miller’s typed autobiography in museum archives. Come hear Belinda share how Mrs. Miller overcame personal challenges …

Collaborations Between Academic Libraries And Other Campus Departments: An Annotated Bibliography 2007 - 2017, Michael Mounce

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Michael Mounce will discuss academic libraries working with other campus departments within their institutions when helping students. Attendees will learn about collaborations between various academic libraries and other departments, such as writing centers. This presentation will be most helpful to attendees wanting to implement similar collaborations at their institutions.

Yarn Bombing: How To Turn Your Library Into A Piece Of Art!, Kenna C. Martin, Kathy Lawrence

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Are you an artist? No? Don't worry! We can show you a great way to turn your library into a work of art. Yarn Bombing is a great way to add color and creativity through fiber art, as well as showcase the beautiful work of people throughout your community. This program is a great for all ages and unites those who crochet and knit with those who have never attempted a stich.

The session will include What is yarn bombing?, How to yarn bomb?, Why yarn bomb? and lessons learned along the way. We will show pieces that were used …

The Best Things In Life Are Free: Open Educational Resources For K-12, Michele Frasier-Robinson

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Open Educational Resources (OER) are free openly licensed materials for teaching and learning that can be reused, modified, and shared. This presentation will introduce school librarians to the wide world of open educational resources for K-12 students. Attendees will learn how to find, evaluate and use high quality OER.

We Had To Move It: Wvu Tech Library Historic Transition From Montgomery To Beckley, Mary Strife, Jewel Connell

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

In spring 2014, it was determined that WVU Institute of Technology in Montgomery would be moved to Beckley by fall of 2017. Since no one has ever moved an entire campus this distance in this short period, we had to create our own plan. Come hear the adventure of a career.

All Hands On Deck: Making Information Literacy Outreach A Priority, Sabrina Thomas

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Creating partnerships within and between schools is vital to promoting information literacy as a critical survival tool for the Digital Age. In this session, I will talk about partnerships I’ve made that facilitate and encourage teaching information literacy beyond the library and to all ages.

Ibby- The World At Our Fingertips: Award Winning International Literature For Children Of All Ages, Zana Sueme, Isaac Williams Williams

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Bring award winning International books to your juvenile patrons! Presenters will: provide an overview of the IBBY award winning books from international authors and illustrators; discuss/demonstrate program ideas related to these books; provide a brief description of the USBBY, a non-profit organization that supports literacy and promotes cultural understanding.

Oer Faculty Librarian Collaboration: Service With A Smile, Anne Hudson, Alan Thompson

West Virginia Library Association Conferences

Assigned to work with a faculty member outside of her liaison departments to create an Open Educational Resource Textbook for his class, presenter will share fun stories about their relationship and best practices for building collaborative partnerships that would apply to OER and other liaison initiatives: Instruction; Data Management; etc.

Storage Warriors: Survivors Of The Big Move, Narda Tafuri, Sheli Pratt-Mchugh, Sharon Wiles-Young, Erika Johnson, Britt Mueller

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

As library collections continue to grow, stacks become overcrowded and library space is repurposed for patrons, librarians must transform into: Storage Warriors. Panelists will discuss the planning, organization, preparation and execution of three different library storage projects – two remote and one on campus, including lessons learned, key takeaways and post-move plans.

Sheli McHugh and Narda Tafuri will talk about the move of over 10,000 books from the University of Scranton to an off-site storage location last summer. Included will be the steps taken to get faculty buy in as well as the technical processes involved in executing the project, …

The East Florida Papers: Assessor's Inventory, Cameron T. Adelsperger

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

The East Florida Papers contain the complete local government archive of Spanish East Florida from 1784 to 1821. The St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library has dedicated its time and resources to catalog a section of the East Florida Papers titled the Assessor’s Inventory that describes a census conducted around June 1801. The Papers described houses, specifying their location, owner, price value, and more. It was my job to translate these documents from Spanish to English so that the St. Augustine Historical Society could organize the entries onto an online catalog.

The Sensory And Textural Evaluation Of A St. Louis Style Butter Cake Made With Greek Yogurt As A Fat Replacer, Caprisse Johnson

Posters-at-the-Capitol

In modern America, many nutrition-related health issues are on the rise, including diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Many nutrition professionals link the rise in these three diseases to the Western Diet, which includes a high fat and sugar content within its foods. Due to the increased consumption of this diet high in sugar and fat, obesity, heart disease, and diabetes rates seem to be rising. However, many people who eat this diet and are at risk for these complications, hesitate to change their diet because they feel that healthier alternatives are bland in flavor or have a repugnant taste when …

From Climate Change To Vaccination Safety: Teaching Information Literacy In An Undergraduate Epidemiology Course, Amy Dailey, Meggan D. Smith

All Musselman Library Staff Works

“Fake news” and “alternative facts” are now ubiquitous terms. Teaching information and scientific literacy is essential if we expect students to become well-informed citizens prepared to navigate today’s digital landscape, political climate, and 24-hour cable news cycle. A professor and a research librarian designed assignments over the course of the semester to address the following information literacy outcomes in an undergraduate epidemiology class. Students should be able to: 1) Examine and compare information from various sources in order to evaluate accuracy, authority, currency, and point of view; 2) Recognize the cultural, physical, or other context within which information is created …

Open Humanities: Strategies For Creating Open Access Course Materials, John Venecek, Christian Beck, John Raible, Sarah A. Norris, Lily Flick

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As textbook affordability and access to information become important topics on university campuses and within the population more generally, finding ways to decrease book costs in a humanities classroom while providing the best possible resources for students emerges as a multi-disciplinary strategy that requires cooperation across campus. Open Access texts are a way to offer content for free, but humanities assembling this type of text in the humanities is often restricted by copyright and intellectual property. Utilizing materials found in public domain or with a Creative Commons license, however, provides an opportunity to create Open Access texts. In spring 2016, …

Neuronal Degeneration And Short-Term Memory Impairment After Tbi, Obiamaraije Igwe

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) was associated with impaired short-term memory with causes of vehicle accidents and falls. Protein plaques containing fibrinogen (Fg), are associated with memory loss. After TBI, Fg in blood was higher than normal (>~2 mg/ml), which resulted in increased Fg in extravascular space. Therefore, Fg bonded to its endothelial receptor intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Fg then interacted with cellular prion protein (PrPC), which had a strong effect on the loss of memory and cognition. Mechanisms of Fg and PrPC complex formation and its functional implication are not known. This present study tested the level of Fg-PrPC …

The Challenges To Learning In A Digital Age: Exploring Issues Of Access And Equity, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As teaching and learning evolves to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, we find these experiences transformed by hard unsolved problems and burgeoning opportunities yet to be explored and identified. Of critical importance to learning in the digital age are the issues of access and equity. These issues, while long prevalent in academia and beyond, have become increasingly more significant as the shift towards online and digital technologies provides new pedagogical possibilities we could not have predicted. Like faculty and students, libraries and librarians have equally felt this digital shift. The challenges faced provide an interconnected struggle that …

Inseguridad Frente A Lealtad Lingüística: El Caso Dominicano, Orlando Alba

Faculty Publications

En esta presentación se realiza un acercamiento a la realidad lingüística dominicana desde la perspectiva subjetiva. Se intenta descubrir la percepción que tienen los hablantes de su actuación lingüística, de su propio modo de hablar. Se analiza el sentimiento de inseguridad lingüística que lleva a muchos dominicanos a creer que su forma de hablar es peor o menos correcta que la de los hablantes de otros países. Y se concluye que esta inseguridad es compatible con el orgullo y la lealtad a su peculiar modo de hablar, porque este constituye el medio más efectivo que tienen para expresar solidaridad a …

Introducing Trainees To Academic Medicine Career Roles And Responsibilities, Cristina Fernandez, Raymond Lucas, Maria Soto-Greene, John Sanchez

E-Learning Modules

Reproduced with permission of the American Association of Medical Colleges. Link to original publication

Ethics For Helping Professionals: Teaching A Framework That Supports Collaborative Ethical Decision-Making, Laura E. Kaplan, Valerie Bryan, Scott Sanders

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

Social work professionals are often employed in interdisciplinary settings with nursing, psychology, medical, and psychiatric professionals. All of these professions have commonality in their codes of ethics such as the primary principle that we work for the client or patient’s benefit. However, we also know that these same codes do not specifically address ethical dilemmas and their resolution (ACA, 2014, ANA, 2011, AMA/ APA, 2013, AMA,2001, APA, 2010, NASW, 2015). There are numerous decision making models that can be used as a step-by-step process in deciding what to do when confronted by a dilemma (Congress, 1996; Strom-Gottfried, 2007). All of …

Spatial Analysis Of Landfills In Respect To Flood Events And Sea-Level Rise Using Arcgis Pro, Benjamin S. Taylor, Songlin Fei

Purdue GIS Day

"Recently in the news, media coverage of flood events has garnered attention due to tropical storms like Hurricane Harvey and the costly damages that resulted. Under climate change, events like sea-level rise (SLR) and flooding are projected to increase which threaten infrastructure, making it necessary for proper planning before, during, and after installation of landfills to mitigate risk. Studies in Austria and the UK have revealed that many landfills are located in flood zones in addition to coastal areas affected by coastal erosion. In the United States, there have been minimal analysis’ on landfill locations related to flood events and …

Rape Culture And The Workplace: How Do We Change It?, Alexandra Zelin

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

A recent focal article submitted by Cortina et al. (2017) to the Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice journal discusses the need for workplace literature to move away from victim precipitation. Essentially, we as I-O Psychologists need to follow the path of researchers in areas such as criminology and stop placing blame on the victims for being recipients of certain behaviors. The problem with this sentiment is that if we do not measure others’ perceptions of victim behavior in our research we are effectively ignoring the realities of workplace culture, especially when it comes to sexual harassment …

Spirituality Among Adults Living With Sickle Cell Disease After An Adult Stem Cell Transplantation, Dora L. Clayton-Jones

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Institutional Outcomes Following Total Pancreatectomy With Islet Autotransplantation In Children, Stephen Sekoulopoulos, Jaimie Nathan

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

A retrospective review of TPIAT patients at a free-standing children’s hospital from April 2015 to April 2017 was performed to determine preoperative pancreatitis course and perioperative outcomes of TPIAT. Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT) is used to treat debilitating chronic pancreatitis (CP) and acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) that has failed medical and endoscopic therapy. Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive fibroinflammatory injury that can result in endocrine and/or exocrine insufficiency, as well as in severe pain and impaired quality of life. The fibrotic pancreas is removed while the insulin-producing islets are isolated and transplanted back into the patient, usually into …

Computational Study Of Bimetallic Dimers For Electrochemical Co2 Reduction, Christopher C. Morrissey, Haiying He, Peter Zapol

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

CO₂ reduction requires a large energy input due to the high thermodynamic stability of CO₂. As a result, the challenge in CO₂ reduction is to find highly efficient, low costing catalysts. Recently, subnanometer metal clusters have shown promise as catalysts due to their unique electronic and catalytic properties. In this study, we have used density functional theory to study bimetallic dimers anchored on a defective graphene sheet for CO₂ reduction. Better performance were identified for some clusters. The results of this study will inform further experimental research in CO₂ reduction using subnanometer metal clusters.

Bazaar Scheduling: Scheduling Algorithms For Federated Networks Of Independent Satellite Ground Stations, Grace Freigang

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

The overall goal of the project is to develop a multi-network, multi-satellite ground station scheduling protocol and companion scheduling algorithm. A critical component in this effort is the creation of an automated scheduling system to increase access times (sec/day of potential communication) for low earth orbiting satellites, due to the recent increase in small satellite launches. The summer's major task was to create a simulation framework to test the performance of potential algorithms as no such system yet exists. Phase one was to understand orbital parameters of low earth orbiting satellites and used PyEphem to do the astronomical calculations necessary …

Solar-Thermal Decoupled Electrolysis: Assessment Of Mnxoy Systems, Justin Buiter, Jonathan Schoer Dr., Rachel Silcox, Robert Palumbo Dr., Carol Larson, Daniel Kotfer, Guadalupe Villagran

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Integrating Standards Into Your Curriculum, Margaret Phillips, Michael Fosmire, Paul B Mcpherson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This PowerPoint presentation was delivered as part of a workshop titled Integrating Standards into Your Curriculum at Purdue University in October 2017. Additional materials from the workshop can be located here: http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/NIST_standards (see the "standards workshop materials" tab).

Geopolitics Of Rare Earth Elements, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Rare earth elements (REE) contain unique chemical physical properties such as lanthamum, are found in small concentrations, need extensive precise properties to separate, and are critical components of modern technologies such as laser guidance systems, personal electronics such as IPhones, satellites, and military weapons systems as varied as Virginia-class fast attack submarines, DDG-51 Aegis destroyers, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and precision guided munitions. The U.S. has some rare earth resources, but is heavily dependent on access to them from countries as varied as Afghanistan, Bolivia, and China. Losing access to these resources would have significant adverse economic, military, and …