Missing Information Has Value: Climate Change The And The Epa Website, Elisa Slater Acosta
Jul 2018
Missing Information Has Value: Climate Change The And The Epa Website, Elisa Slater Acosta
Elisa Slater Acosta
What happens when government web pages are hidden, moved, or deleted? In the age of “alternative facts” and the “politicization of science” one librarian was inspired by real world events to create an opportunity to dialogue about power dynamics and bias in a traditional one-shot instruction session. Environmental Science students critically analyzed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website and its treatment of climate change during the Trump, Obama, and Bush presidencies. The library “warm-up” activity was designed to raise awareness of data fragility and the long-term accessibility of government websites. As future science professionals, it’s important to think about how …
Hospital Librarians: Training The Next Generation Of Doctors, Heather J. Martin
Jun 2018
Hospital Librarians: Training The Next Generation Of Doctors, Heather J. Martin
Heather J Martin, MISt, AHIP
Hospital librarians address a wide array of information needs. They help nurses figure out how to take care of patients, help physicians with difficult cases, help families get reliable health information, and sometimes the information they provide even helps save a life. They also play an important role in training the next generation of doctors. At one hospital in Oregon, Providence St. Joseph Health System Library Services has integrated traditional library instruction directly into the curriculum of the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Information Literacy Outreach In A Fake News World, Debbie Morrow
May 2018
Information Literacy Outreach In A Fake News World, Debbie Morrow
Debbie Morrow
In a “post-truth” society how do we sustain an informed citizenry, the underpinning of our democracy? What news is “fake” and which facts are “alternative”? Crucially, how do we educate students to evaluate the information they encounter in a variety of contexts and disciplines? How can librarians take the lead in teaching that "authority is constructed and contextual"? This session offers some ideas culled from outreach and contact opportunities around campus during the last year [2017].
Extending The Library Community: Building A Pathway To College Through Collaborative Instruction & Mentoring, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra, Emily Sartorius
Apr 2018
Extending The Library Community: Building A Pathway To College Through Collaborative Instruction & Mentoring, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra, Emily Sartorius
Gayle Schaub
This presentation describes a collaboration of academic librarians, academic support services employees, and university students to teach critical information literacy skills and cultivate a college-going culture among high school students from historically underrepresented populations. It details the benefits to all participants in the collaboration, including faculty, university students, student support staff, and high school students. Attendees will learn about how the project was conceived, designed, staffed, and incorporated into an instruction librarian workload.
Low Tech, High Tech, Just The Right Tech: Find The Perfect Tools To Create Multimedia For Your Library, Marisa L. Mendez-Brady, Shiva L. Darbandi
Jan 2018
Low Tech, High Tech, Just The Right Tech: Find The Perfect Tools To Create Multimedia For Your Library, Marisa L. Mendez-Brady, Shiva L. Darbandi
Marisa Méndez-Brady
The purpose of this presentation is to share our techniques for creating easy to use tutorials for your library. Whether you serve a small academic community, or a large university, we hope to present ideas that work for your library. We will cover the basic pedagogy behind tutorial creation and use, and then present both licensed and open sourced tools for creating multimedia tutorials at all funding levels. Participants will be asked to participate in storyboarding exercise where they put together a learning object they can take back to their institution. Our goal is to demystify the tutorial creation process.
