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Hiring Student Graphic Designers: Benefits, Challenges, And Lessons Learned, Jamie Hazlitt, John Jackson
Hiring Student Graphic Designers: Benefits, Challenges, And Lessons Learned, Jamie Hazlitt, John Jackson
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Creating Spaces For Meaningful Dialogue: The Human Library At Three Universities, Annette Alvarado, Barbara Ghilardi, John Jackson, Lisa Thornell, Susan Wardzala
Creating Spaces For Meaningful Dialogue: The Human Library At Three Universities, Annette Alvarado, Barbara Ghilardi, John Jackson, Lisa Thornell, Susan Wardzala
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The Human Library® is an event designed to create a safe and brave space for individuals to discover and share social identities and perspectives unfamiliar to their lived experience. The DiMenna-Nyselius Library at Fairfield University, Loyola University Libraries at Loyola University Chicago, and William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University each hosts a unique version of the Human Library event. In this poster, the authors give a brief overview of the Human Library and outline how they orchestrate meaningful dialogue on campus: starting with planning and collaborations with campus partners; facilitating individuals to connect at the event to hear …
“I Mean, Pandemic”: How Covid-19 Has Disrupted Librarians’ Research, Selinda Berg, Kristin Hoffmann, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie Kennedy
“I Mean, Pandemic”: How Covid-19 Has Disrupted Librarians’ Research, Selinda Berg, Kristin Hoffmann, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie Kennedy
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The pandemic is having far-reaching consequences as we adjust to lockdowns, adapt to working from home, and face unanticipated personal and professional challenges. We have experienced disruptions to many aspects of our lives, including our professional lives. Research is one element of academic librarians’ professional roles that is being altered or interrupted.
Poc In Lis Summit 2021 Impact Report, Nataly Blas, Aisha Conner-Gaten, Jennifer Masunaga, Jessea Young
Poc In Lis Summit 2021 Impact Report, Nataly Blas, Aisha Conner-Gaten, Jennifer Masunaga, Jessea Young
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While there are many conferences for information workers, very few highlight the voices of marginalized identities and provide a platform for discussion for their research interests. According to a 2010 American Library Association survey, 88% of credentialed librarians identify as white. In our vision for this summit and the future of libraries, People of Color in Library and Information Science Summit at Loyola Marymount University encouraged the representation of diverse topics and perspectives and as a part of this work acknowledged that the racial disparities we see in the library and information science (LIS) field reflect inequities in other parts …
Mentoring Academic Librarians For Research Success, Don P. Jason, Marie R. Kennedy, Kristine R. Brancolini
Mentoring Academic Librarians For Research Success, Don P. Jason, Marie R. Kennedy, Kristine R. Brancolini
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This chapter describes the design and implementation of a formal research mentoring program within a continuing education program for academic librarians. The chapter explores ways in which this type of mentoring might be applied in a single-institution or a cross-institutional mentoring program. Formal one-on-one research-mentoring is one component of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL, https://library.lmu.edu/irdl), a research development program for novice researchers who are academic librarians from all disciplines. The short-term goal of the IRDL mentoring program is to increase the probability that each IRDL scholar will complete their research project in one year. However, the …