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#Hashtag Social Media Experiences: Building Positive Patron–Library Relationships, Alla Kushniryk, Stanislav Orlov

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The ubiquitous presence of social media has changed the way libraries communicate with their patrons. Academic libraries usually employ social media to provide instant feedback to queries and promote library services to students and faculty. However, using these tools solely for such purposes means not fully utilizing their potential. Properly applied, social media can help build and maintain positive relationships between libraries and communities they serve. Social media experts (e.g.: Quesenberry, 2021) argue that in order to build these relationships, an organization should take a “bottom up” approach to social media by engaging with patrons through social media listening and …

Revamping An Academic Library With Users’ Voice: A Pandemic Response, Sumayya Ansar

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The author will discuss how a small academic library has incorporated user perspectives when redesigning and reimagining the library amid pandemic uncertainties. During the Fall of 2020, when the University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ) library was reopening after the pandemic, the library space was moved to a much smaller space to accommodate additional physical space requirements for undergraduate classes. One of the immediate challenges of the library was to continue providing access to library resources with less disruption while keeping users informed of unexpected changes. The library primarily targeted keeping users informed of the changes and providing access to …

Demystifying Ai: A Robot-Mediated Outreach Program, Tatiana Usova

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries are reinventing themselves to stay relevant. As librarians, we recognize the need to be creative to facilitate student learning in the digital age. This academic year Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar tested a new outreach program in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and the Robotics club. It was intended for the whole community but primarily for students from majors other than computer science, and relatively unfamiliar with coding and AI concepts. The purpose was to bring more students to the library, let them connect with each other, see a hi-tech side of library resources, try new things, …

The Role Of Academic Libraries And The Need For Librarians' Competences To Facilitate Citizen Science, Gintare Tautkeviciene, Liisi Lembinen, Gita Rozenberga, Giedre Sabaityte, Ignat Tiberius, Tuuliki Toiste, Katrina Zourou

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic libraries in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, together with partners from Greece and Germany, are implementing the LibOCS project "University libraries strengthening the academia-society connection through citizen science in the Baltics" which aims to: - Identify the drivers and barriers for researchers, members of the public and librarians to engage in citizen science projects; - define the role of academic libraries as facilitators between researchers and members of the public in promoting citizen science activities in the Baltic region; - Identify relevant competences of librarians implementing citizen science projects; - develop openly accessible training modules for librarians to help them …

Transormative Agreements: Communicating Next Phase Of Library Collections, Julia Gelfand, Mitchell Brown

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Open Access journals and scholarship share a new relationship as content has transitioned from a subscription commodity to rights management. As federal governments encourage and increasingly mandate sponsored research outputs be freely and widely available at the time of publication sustainability of such models led to varied ways of how OA could be made viable. Recent practices suggest successes and trials in changing the footprint of collections. Libraries accustomed to acquiring content for perpetual ownership, and those that created institutional repositories to allow authors when they didn’t retain intellectual property could distribute and repurpose their works are but examples of …

Information Needs Of Children Having A Radiology Technique: Imaging Centers, Rahele Mehrabi, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Vahid Changizi, Nastaran Poursalehi, Faride Pak, Mehrzad Mehdizadeh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Background: Nowadays, health care systems are seeking to find ways to promote self-care, patient empowerment and informed decision-making. Production of health information content is considered an important tool for improving the health literacy of patients. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the components of children's health information in radiology centers in order to explore information need of children. Materials and Methods: This qualitative exploratory case study was conducted on 71 people, 25 including 6-14 year-old children, 25 parents of 0-14 year-old children, and 23 staffs(radiology technicians and doctors) of Radiology Department at Children's Medical Center Hospital )Tehran, …

Phd Supervisors Bad Rap Of Open Access Journals, Lindall Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term "open access," but the practice of making journal papers freely available online is a relatively new development. Among the first public statements to use the term "open access," the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities were released in February 2002, and their initial concept of open access refers to unrestricted online access to scholarly research, primarily journal articles. Over the past few years, the number of journals available through open access has …

Building Strategic Partnerships To Support Research Impact & Discovery In Canadian Research Libraries, Vivian Lewis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper will update the international community on how Canadian research libraries are moving from supporting to taking a strong leadership role in key components of the University’s digital research support infrastructure and, in doing so, expanding the campus’ understanding of what good research libraries can and should do. The research will include real-world examples of research libraries leading campus implementations of Research Information Management Systems (RIMs) or Campus Research Information Management Systems (CRISs) to help document the institution’s research output; to partnering or leading the introduction of Bibliometrics services as a strategy for quantifying research impact; and to overseeing …

From Scratch To Launch; Leveraging University Of Miami Libraries’ Research Information Management System To Cultivate University-Wide Partnerships And Support Faculty Research Dissemination And Impact, Kineret Ben Knaan, Elizabeth Gushee, Angela Clark

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Since 2017, the University of Miami Libraries (UML) has engaged with key stakeholders and institutional leaders to adapt and build a centralized, sustainable Research Information Management System (RIMS) helping to curate, manage, and promote institutional research output. This paper details the development and rollout of Esploro by Ex Libris (locally branded Scholarship@Miami), the Institutional Repository (IR), and the RIM system for the University of Miami (UM). The UML Esploro Implementation team leveraged Esploro’s Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning features to train the system to automatically capture and fetch relevant scholarly outputs produced by researchers affiliated with UM. Further, we consider …

The Virtual Reading Room: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Donna Mcrostie, Lisa Mcintosh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The University of Melbourne and Sydney Libraries in Australia have unparalleled collections of special, rare and archival collections in the national academic library landscape. Both institutions are driven by the same ambition; to maximise engagement and use of these unique collection to further global scholarship.  During the peak of the global pandemic physical access to collections was limited which led to the development of digital solutions to provide a minimum level of access for scholars. On emerging from lockdowns, we engaged in a range of reflective practices about how we may transform and evolve service models in direct response to …

Marketing And Promotion Of Library & Information Services And Products In The Higher Education Institutions In Uae, Durai Murugan Mari Muthu, Zafar Khan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There are different marketing strategies available to promote the library resources, services, products, and facilities. Some of the strategy primarily applied in libraries includes community surveys, innovations, publicity and public relations, advertising, communication skills, staff training and innovation, networking and pricing. The study focuses on different types of promotional activities and strategies applied by the surveyed libraries to enhance the utilization of library resources and services. Furthermore, the study tries to understand the attitude of librarians towards strategies of library products and services in the higher education institution of UAE. The study is primarily descriptive in nature with survey type …

The Youtube Social Capital - Library Users Finding A Place And Space On Youtube, Lindall Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The library is a source of social capital. Several studies have examined how library spaces, services, and programs generate social capital. In this manner, the physical library became the third space, following the first and second spaces of home and work. However, during the global lockdown, the third space closed its doors and redirected its attention to social media platforms. While libraries have been engaged in Web 2.0 endeavours since the early 2000s, maintaining social network presence has not been an option. Libraries were given the opportunity to reengage with social media as a result of the pandemic, and new …

Information Technologies Towards Enhanced Service Delivery During The Covid-19 Pandemic, South Africa, Tinyiko Dube, Lorette Jacobs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The presentation seeks to examine academic librarians’ support of information technology’s application to provide digital library services and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic in academic libraries based in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. In 2020-2021, these academic libraries introduced new library services and digitised most of their resources to enable online access. These academic libraries embraced the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ensure that teaching, learning and research do not halt. Embracing IoT and AI caused academic libraries’ spaces to become irrelevant. This research is anchored in the pragmatism paradigm through a sequential explanatory research …

Leading The Way: University Libraries Advancing Sustainable Development Goals, Modiehi Rammutloa, Lorette Jacobs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Universities play a critical role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their mandate of teaching, education, research, and community engagements. Through their support of the mother body, university libraries provide access to information towards the successful achievement of SDGs. One way of achieving the SDGs is through citizen science. Citizen science is the involvement of community members in scientific research. The success of citizen science projects towards achieving SDGs has been vastly reported in the literature. Data produced from citizen science projects can be used towards achieving SDGs. This is where academic librarians can play a critical role in …

Development Of A Cooperative Perception System, Yiheng Feng, Andrew Tarko

Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Cooperative perception that integrates sensing capabilities from both infrastructure and vehicles can greatly benefit the transportation system in terms of safety and data acquisition. In this project, a prototype of such a system was developed and evaluated by integrating a Lidar-based infrastructure detection system (facilitated with a portable Traffic Scanner, TScan) with an SAE Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV). Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication devices were installed on both the TScan and the CAV to enable real-time message transmission of detection results in the form of SAE J2735 Basic Safety Messages (BSMs). The prototype system was validated using a case …

Applications Of Ai Technologies As A Tutor In Teaching And Learning In Class, Young B. Choi

KAUPA Letters

As AI technologies continue to be applied in various domains, their application in education is becoming a globally significant issue. This paper aims to explore the implementation of AI technologies in teaching and learning within the classroom setting. Additionally, it will address the relevant issues that need to be resolved in order to minimize the potential negative aspects of AI technology applications in education.

My Humble Opinion On Lgbtq+, Semoon Chang

KAUPA Letters

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Recollections And Reflections On Syngman Rhee (이승만), Yeomin Yoon

KAUPA Letters

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Impact Week Report Summer 2023: A Report By The Impact Evaluation Team, Evaluation And Learning Research Center

IMPACT Reports

This is the 2023 report of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) Week. IMPACT was created in 2010, and is a large collaborative initiative on the Purdue West Lafayette campus involving multiple key partners across campus including the Office of the Provost, Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Purdue Online (PO), Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (Libraries), the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC), and Institutional Data Analytics and Assessment (IDA+A). IMPACT works with instructors to redesign large enrollment, foundational courses with the aim of engaging students more fully in their learning and creating a more student-centered environment, …

The Covid Whirlwind On The Veterinary World: End-Of-Life Care And Euthanasia During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth Chalmers, Paula Gerstenblatt, River Hodgdon

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Veterinary providers experience job-specific psychological stress from their dual role in both providing medical care to pets and supporting pet-owner clients through end-of-life care and the euthanasia process, contributing to compassion fatigue and burnout in the field. COVID-19 has impacted the provision of veterinary care and affected communication between providers and pet owners. This qualitative study explores the experiences of veterinary providers who provided end-of- life care and performed euthanasia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants for this qualitative study were recruited and interviewed using criterion sampling from four veterinary practices in the northeastern United States. Inductive thematic analysis was used …

Emergent Bilinguals’ Participation In Multilingual Engineering Learning Ecologies, Alberto Esquinca, Maria Teresa De La Piedra, Lidia Herrera-Rocha

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Students classified as English language learners (ELLs), many of whom are also Hispanic/Latine´/x, are at times excluded from opportunities to engage in engineering design experiences due to the emphasis on learning English. In dual language bilingual education, however, language policies that allow for the use and development of more than one language afford opportunities for ELLs that are not available in monolingual environments. We draw on a multilingual learning ecology theoretical framework to analyze data gathered from a two-year ethnographic study. During approximately 200 hours of field work, we gathered multiple forms of data through ethnographic methods, to include field …

Exploring Scenario-Based Assessment Of Students' Global Engineering Competency: Building Evidence Of Validity Of A China-Based Situational Judgment Test, Kirsten A. Davis, Brent Jesiek, David B. Knight

School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications

Background

Engineers operate in an increasingly global environment, making it important that engineering students develop global engineering competency to prepare them for success in the workplace. To understand this learning, we need assessment approaches that go beyond traditional self-report surveys. A previous study (Jesiek et al., Journal of Engineering Education 2020; 109(3):1–21) began this process by developing a situational judgment test (SJT) to assess global engineering competency based in the Chinese context and administering it to practicing engineers.

Purpose

We built on this previous study by administering the SJT to engineering students to explore what prior experiences related to their …

Using Behavior Sequence Analysis To Study Teams During Long- Duration Isolation And Confinement, Andres Käosaar, Dr. Nathan Smith, Dr. David A. Keatley, Pranav Ambhorkar, Dr. Moritz Von Looz, Konstantinos Konstantinidis

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

With a renewed impetus and appetite for human space exploration, both government-funded agencies and private companies are focusing on longer and farther crewed missions into the solar system. Such space missions rely on highly interdependent teams living and working together in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments. Understanding the behavioral patterns of teams in ICE environments is, thus, paramount for the future success of such missions. Due to the complexity of studying ICE teams, several researchers have called for methodological innovations to advance knowledge in this area. In the current research, a proof-of-concept methodological approach is introduced that provides a …

Learning In A Crisis Moment: A Randomized Controlled Trial In Emergency Bystander Intervention, Caitlin Mcgaffick, Noor Gulrajani, Nan Kong, Nicole Adams

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Background

Opioid overdose is the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Individuals who overdose outside of clinical settings have more positive clinical outcomes when they receive naloxone, an opioid antagonist, from a bystander as an early intervention before emergency personnel arrive. However, there is a gap in knowledge about successful instantaneous learning and intervention in a real-life stressful environment. The objective of this study is to explore the efficacy of different instructional delivery methods for bystanders in a stressful environment. We aim to evaluate which methods are most effective for instantaneous learning, successful intervention, and improved clinical …

Narratives And Expert Information In Agenda-Setting: Experimental Evidence On State Legislator Engagement With Artificial Intelligence Policy, Daniel S. Schiff, Kaylyn J. Schiff

Department of Political Science Faculty Publications

Are narratives as influential in gaining the attention of policymakers as expert information, including for complex, technical policy domains such as artificial intelligence (AI) policy? This pre-registered study uses a field experiment to evaluate legislator responsiveness to policy entrepreneur outreach. In partnership with a leading AI think tank, we send more than 7300 U.S. state legislative offices emails about AI policy containing an influence strategy (providing a narrative, expert information, or the organization's background), along with a prominent issue frame about AI (emphasizing technological competition or ethical implications). To assess engagement, we measure link clicks to further resources and webinar …

The Role Of Region And Religious Tradition In Predicting Individuals’ Expressions Of Faith In The Workplace, Jacqui Frost, Christopher P. Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Denise Daniels

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

While many variables might influence an individual’s willingness to express their faith in the workplace, the role of regional context has not been fully considered. The different geographical regions in the U.S. consist of unique demographics and cultures that could shape an individual’s expression of faith at work. Moreover, these regional effects might be moderated by an individual’s specific religious tradition. Using data from a survey of U.S. adults featuring oversamples of Jewish and Muslim individuals, we utilize two unique measures of religious expression—displaying/wearing religious items at work and talking about religion at work—to assess the roles of region and …

International Comparisons Of The Home Mathematics Environment And Relations With Children's Mathematical Achievement, Alexa Ellis, Jimena Cosso, Robert Duncan, María Inés Susperreguy, Victoria Simms, David J. Purpura

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

Background: Home mathematics environment (HME) research has focused on parent–child interactions surrounding numerical activities as measured by the frequency of engaging in such activities. However, HME survey questions have been developed from limited perspectives (e.g., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27, 2012, 231; Journal of Social Issues, 64, 2008, 95; Early childhood mathematics education research: Learning trajectories for young children, Routledge, New York, 2009), by researchers from a small subset of countries (15; Psychological Bulletin, 147, 2020, 565), which may skew our interpretations. Aims and Sample: This study broadened international representation by leveraging secondary data from the 2019 TIMSS to examine …

Evaluating The Efficacy Of Virtual Reality (Vr) Training Devices For Pilot Training, Ryan Guthridge, Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Virtual Reality (VR) technology is a quickly advancing field that has many documented benefits, including highly detailed environments, accuracy to the real world, and low cost of entry in the flight simulation market. At the time of this study, VR technology has not been well tested or widely accepted in the aviation industry. In this mixed methods study, quantitative and qualitative data was collected on beginning-level instrument pilots (n = 120) while performing a visual traffic pattern at an airport. A one-way ANOVA was used to evaluate the equivalence of each group in the study based on previous flight and …

Five Finger Advocacy: An Alternative To The Elevator Pitch, Ilana Stonebraker

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

How do we find ways to take the stories we tell and give them more impact? In this lightning talk, I present the five finger lobbying model as an alternative to elevator pitch. The five finger model includes: 1) Introduce yourself 2) What is my issue 3) Why do I care (personal story) 4) Why should they care? 5) Make the ask. This is great alternative to the elevator pitch because it centers the audience and the intent into the communication. Five finger advocacy librarians who want to communicate value, but also identify shared goals. It can also be helpful …

Visual Literacy Support For Business Students And Faculty: Preliminary Results From Needs Assessment Study, Zoeanna A. Mayhook, Sarah Huber, Wanju Huang

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

The development of visual literacy skills is increasingly important for business students graduating into today's visually-driven business environment. Visual literacy (VL) encompasses the skills needed to find, interpret, use, create, and ethically engage with visual information (ACRL, 2022). Within a business context, VL skills allow students to enhance their presentations, communicate their messages effectively, visualize complex information or data into succinct visual representations, and tell compelling stories. Further, well-developed visuals can help bridge language barriers when communicating with stakeholders worldwide (Sweeny & Hughes, 2017). Despite the apparent benefits of these VL competencies, business students may need more direct training and …