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Campus Conversation: Utilizing Citation Impact Indicators, David Luftig

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

These are the (PDF) slides from a Campus Conversation session examining bibliometrics by demonstrating the functionality of Web of Science (InCItes), Scopus, and Google Scholar. This session was intended to assist researchers with contextualizing research and research publications through the use of bibliometrics. This session also examined the many perils of bibliometrics as well as alternative research metrics.

Cultivating Instruction Team Success With Low-Stakes Assessment Experiments, Heidi Gauder

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Assessment of student learning has been a component of this instruction team’s workload, but the approach was narrow, and responsibility was not equally shared. The instruction assessment efforts were based on quiz results from online tutorials administered by certain team members. When the tutorial quiz scores remained consistent over time, the responsible librarians decided that it was no longer useful to conduct an annual tutorial assessment. With the support of the library assessment committee chair, instruction team members were asked to try their hands at assessment using techniques of their own choosing with a class that they selected. Thus, the …

Behind The Scenes, Ready For Action: Cultivating And Conveying A Large-Scale Humanities Monograph Weeding Project With Campus Stakeholders, Heidi Gauder, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Weeding books is a scary prospect for many librarians and faculty, particularly for humanities faculty, since monographs are critical scholarship in those disciplines. At this library, a renovation in one area created the need for a large-scale review of monograph collections in other areas. Library leadership began conversations with campus stakeholders early on, emphasizing renovation needs and outcomes, careful deselection methods, stakeholder opportunities for input, and sustainable collections. In the Fall 2017 semester, all subject librarians began identifying relevant titles for deselection and communicating with departments about the process. The Humanities librarians found themselves making additional collection considerations and working …

Digital Archives In The Discovery Layer: A Successful Collaboration Between Archivists And Technical Services Librarians, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Effective collaboration between archivists and technical services librarians can increase the discoverability of special collection materials. In this panel presentation, archivists and a technical services librarian from a medium-sized institution discussed archival tools available to preserve collections of digital content and how to make the collections available universitywide.

Working together, the panelists had created a plan to integrate these collections into the discovery layer so that metadata was indexed on a single user-friendly platform. After advertising the collections, they collected usage statistics to determine impact.

Attendees had the opportunity to discuss their own digital archive collections with others and to …

Cultivating Student Success: Library Programming In An Academic Library, Amanda Black

Roesch Library Staff Presentations

The University of Dayton Libraries designed two interactive sessions for incoming students. One focused on discovering library spaces; the second focused on library resources. Assessment methods were built into each one.

The Archives As Classroom: A Primary Source Mini-Course, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler, Heidi Gauder

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Archival and Primary Source Research (UDI 204) is a one-credit course at the University of Dayton designed to introduce students to the themes of historical empathy, visual literacy, privacy, and silences in the archives. This case study explores the pilot iteration of this mini-course, taught collaboratively with a team of six librarians and archivists. With the intention of furthering the goals of the University Libraries’ strategic plan, the course was developed to move beyond what can be accomplished during a one-shot instructional session in regard to primary source literacy. In addition to discussing the inherent challenges of developing and teaching …

Developing A Social Justice Mindset In Technical Services, Ione T. Damasco

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

These days, the words "equity," "diversity," and "inclusion" are used throughout libraries. But what do people mean when they use these words? And how do these words manifest in library technical services work? In this talk, participants explored how they can give these words real power when they frame them within a social justice mindset. The program started with an understanding of who participants are as individuals and how they fit into larger systems and structures of societal oppression. They they explored together how their work in technical services can contribute to the dismantling of those systems to ensure a …

A Change Would Do You Good: Cross-Sector Perspectives, Rebecca Katz, Kayla Harris, Marcella Huggard

Marian Library Faculty Publications

The various sectors of archives and related professions can diverge from each other in priorities, strategies, constituencies, and resource availability. Individuals changing positions across these sectors have an opportunity to bring skills learned in their previous field(s) to transform the work being done in archives and related institutions. Cross-sector experiences also provide an opportunity to reflect on how such transitions transformed an individual’s outlook on the profession as a whole and his or her role within it. Even much of the recently renewed interest in the unity among libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) focuses on institutions and not on the …

Review: Images At Work: The Material Culture Of Enchantment, Jillian M. Ewalt

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Citation information for the book:

Morgan, David. Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780190272111

Climate Change: Implications For Professional Best Practices In Special Collections, Sarah Burke Cahalan

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation responds to research presented by Eira Tansey, Ben Goldman, and Whitney Ray. Both presentations were part of the seminar “Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Gathering Data and Exploring Professional Implications for a Very Different Future,” presented on June 22 at RBMS 2018.

Catholic Documents 101: Resources For Parts 3 And 4, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

This list of resources accompanied the presentation "Catholic Documents 101: A Theological Librarian’s Guide to Identifying, Locating, and Using the Documents of the Catholic Church."

Catholic Documents 101: A Theological Librarian’S Guide To Identifying, Locating, And Using The Documents Of The Catholic Church, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

Over the course of 2,000 years, theologians have accreted mountains of writings on every aspect of the Christian faith. While even devoted students of Christian doctrine likely will not have time to scale all of the peaks in a single academic lifetime, they cannot afford to skip completely over one of the highest summits: the documents of the “teaching arm” of the Catholic Church, the Magisterium, which safeguards the deposit of faith and interprets controversies in light of it. Those approaching doctrinal matters, such as the atonement and the virgin birth, from a Protestant perspective may find it beneficial to …

A Theological Library’S Efforts To Complement Faith Formation, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

In the fall of 2016, a librarian at the Marian Library was approached about the possibility of preparing an art lesson that would also support catechesis of the parish school students. This poster presentation will summarize how the Marian Library's special collections have been used to complement ongoing faith formation efforts of both adults and children.

Exercising Research Skills: An Information Literacy Boot Camp For Religious Studies Graduate Assistants, Stephanie Shreffler, Heidi Gauder

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

Instructional librarians at the University of Dayton collaborated with a religious studies graduate program to offer a three-day information literacy workshop, or “boot camp,” to the program's graduate research assistants. The graduate program had found that the assistants' research skills did not meet the expectations of their faculty mentors, and the workshop sought to address these deficiencies. With input from the religious studies faculty, the workshop focused on catalog and database searching, Boolean logic, primary sources, and the Chicago citation style. The librarians incorporated active learning exercises into each workshop session. Assessment of the workshop suggested that the assistants gained …

Catholic Documents 101: A Theological Librarian’S Guide To Identifying, Locating, And Using The Documents Of The Catholic Church, James Humble, Kathy Harty, Elyse Hayes, Andrew Kosmowski S.M.

Marian Library Faculty Publications

The teachings of the Catholic Church are found in numerous documents, produced by different persons or groups across centuries, whose arrangement and importance relative to each other are often hard to understand. This Listen and Learn session familiarizes librarians from non-Catholic backgrounds with the various types and features of Catholic Church document, concluding with strategies for answering a sample reference question by relying on that material. By sorting through the classification of these documents and directing attendees to the most authoritative or most easily obtainable source materials for those documents, this session makes it easier for librarians working in non-Catholic …

Bringing Students To The Archives, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

Six librarians and archivists at the University of Dayton taught an archives “mini-course” to introduce students to archival theory and concepts while providing them with a deeper understanding of the history of the university and the city of Dayton. The one-credit class covered concepts including visual literacy, representation in the archives, privacy, and historical empathy. Students researched an archival collection from UD’s special collections, placing the collection within its historical context. They submitted a final project consisting of a poster presentation of their research, a bibliography, and a reflection.

Through this course, the librarians and archivists intended to increase students’ …

What Is A Library Without Books? Our Journey To “Concourse D”, Katy Kelly, Adrienne Ausdenmoore

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

In this session, attendees engaged with the exciting process and partnership developed between co-presenters from University of Dayton (UD) Libraries and UD’s Institute of Applied Creativity for Transformation (IACT). An IACT experiential learning program led 12 students to research and reimagine the role of the library, which resulted in Concourse D, a prototyped transdisciplinary project development studio. This mutually beneficial process led to the Libraries to a user-centric mindset to reimagine space as service; patrons as creators; and a new space-sharing collaboration to further leverage an upcoming renovation. Presenters discussed lessons learned and future iterations of the studio.

Inclusive Library Professional Development Using Principles Of Intergroup Dialogue, Ione T. Damasco

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

This session introduced principles of intergroup dialogue (IGD), a social justice education framework that focuses on facilitated dialogue and understanding of social identity to advance equity, justice, and peace. This session focused on a case study of how IGD can be incorporated into library professional development. Attendees also engaged in some of the hands-on exercises typically used in IGD training.

In June 2017, the University of Dayton (UD) Libraries collaborated with staff from UD's Center for International Programs, Housing and Residence Life office, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs to develop and facilitate a workshop for library employees to increase …

Review: 'Creative Instructional Design: Practical Applications For Librarians', Joan Plungis

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

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A Change Would Do You Good: Transforming Archives With Cross-Sector Perspectives, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

The various “sectors” of archives and related professions, whether functional or institutional, increasingly diverge from each other in priorities, strategies, and constituencies. For the archivist or records manager changing positions across sectors, however, an opportunity exists to bring skills and insights learned in previous field(s) to transform the work being done in these new places. Cross-sector experiences also give archivists and records managers an opportunity to reflect on how their transitions have transformed their outlook on the profession as a whole, and their role within it. In this lightning round session, eight archivists will share how prior experience in a …

Opening Act: Putting On A Music Festival-Themed Student Orientation, Katy Kelly

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Looking to create an event lineup that speaks volumes to new students about what matters most to them? Learn how one library repurposed a popular festival’s iconic logo and vibe into “Roeschella,” a creative orientation event featuring music, games, snacks, and library services presented on “stages.”

The event has introduced more than 1,500 first-year students to the library every year since 2016. This session highlighted the most popular games and activities that engaged students with services, collections, spaces, and events as well as the successful staff-driven planning and feedback model.

Ultimately, attendees visualized how the planning and assessment of this …

Utilizing Open-Source And Budget-Friendly Tools To Improve Issue Reporting Workflows For E-Resources, Christina A. Beis

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

E-resources are constantly in flux, and librarians spend a significant amount of time fixing access issues. Effective communication and issue tracking are important components that increase transparency, reduce redundancy, and provide a knowledge base. Two academic libraries used Google Forms and Sheets and Microsoft Access and Outlook to create issue reporting forms and workflows that led to improved operations.

Disrupting Diversity Narratives: Introducing Critical Conversations In Libraries, Ione T. Damasco

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

In 2012, the Association for College and Research Libraries issued a document outlining eleven diversity standards for academic libraries to use in developing the skills and competencies that are necessary to serve diverse populations. The American Library Association lists “diversity” as one of its 11 core values.

In 2016, the Medical Library Association identified diversity and inclusion as essential values for the association, and in 2017, it appointed a Diversity Task Force to determine how to operationalize these values.

Typically, when we use the word “diversity” we refer to specific categories of identity: race, gender, ability, and sexual orientation, to …

Review: 'The Theory And Craft Of Digital Preservation', Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Information about the book reviewed:

Trevor Owens. The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. 240 pp. $34.95 (softcover). ISBN: 9781421426976