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Sharing The Love: Using School Libraries As Support In Inquiry-Based Learning, Katrina Sanville

Information Literacy Collab

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“Teaching Information Literacy By Discipline: Using And Creating Adaptations Of The Framework” Book Review, Gabrielle Labare

Information Literacy Collab

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Letter From The Editors, Joel Carpenter, Alexander Schulz

Information Literacy Collab

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Foreword, Beth Patin

Information Literacy Collab

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Front Matter, Information Literacy Collab

Information Literacy Collab

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Full Issue, Information Literacy Collab

Information Literacy Collab

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Sustainable Evidence Synthesis Services: Have We Figured It Out?, John J. Meier, Anne E. Rauh, Amy Van Epps

Librarian Publications

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From Crip Time To Care Time: How Library Administrators Can Support Professional Development Of Disabled Employees, Leah T. Dudak, Rhys Dreeszen Bowman Dr.

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

Building on our 2025 In the Library with the Lead Pipe article "Cripping Conferences", this piece moves from naming the problem to offering solutions to library administrators. Disabled library workers face significant barriers to professional development, including the financial cost of attendance, the physical and mental toll of navigating inaccessible spaces, and the conflict between crip time and the neoliberal clock time that governs academic and library culture. While accommodations are needed, they are not enough; we need to interrogate the systems that exclude disabled employees. Written by two disabled LIS scholars, this piece offers library administrators practical guidance, from …

From Strategic Commitment To Practical Action: A Selection Of Projects To Advance Inclusive Collections, Anne E. Rauh, Winn W. Wasson, Rebecca G. Johnston, Hannah Marosi

Librarian Publications

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Keeping Up With… Graduate Student Research Support Models, Giovanna Colosi

Librarian Publications

Graduate education plays a central role in many institutions’ academic missions and revenue models, yet national data from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) indicate that enrollment and application patterns have shifted unevenly over the past decade, varying by discipline, credential type, and institutional context. At the same time, the graduate student population is increasingly diverse in modality and life stage, with more students enrolling part time, studying online or in hybrid formats, and returning mid-career. These changes present significant implications for academic and research libraries, particularly as graduate students’ research needs remain intensive while their schedules and pathways grow …

Behind The Scenes Of A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, Rebecca Giver Johnston

Librarian Publications

Syracuse University Libraries hosted a student workshop that explored Wikipedia, its history, and its modern challenges. After a conversation and Q&A with a Wikipedia expert, librarians worked with students to make their own updates to Wikipedia, focusing especially on making improvements to pages for folks from the Latinx and LGBTQ+ communities. This lightning talk will explore how staff prepared for this event, how it went, and some takeaways from running it.

Livingness As A Liberatory Framework For Decolonizing Lis Praxis, Sarah Appedu

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

The fields of library and information science (LIS) are in a pivotal moment. While the stakes may seem higher than ever, Indigenous, Black, and queer communities have long anticipated this moment, demonstrating how libraries and archives are not yet equipped to meaningfully participate in the project of decolonization. I build on existing calls for decolonization in our discourse and practices by drawing attention to the living/non-living dualism in our ontologies and the ways it constrains our ability to reconcile with our fields’ colonizing origins. I contemplate what it would mean to treat all information as endowed with a sense of …

Social Media Fragility Indicators: A Framework For Evaluating Social Media As Fragile States, Caroline A. Haythornthwaite

iSchool - All Scholarship

Social Media Fragility Indicators: A framework for evaluating social media as fragile states

Presented at the Media Sociology Symposium, August 7th 2025

In the uncharted domain of cyberspace, social media platforms have stepped in and stepped up as state-like entities – social states – enacting governance structures supporting a variety of state services: security to safeguard user data, public services such as content moderation, regulations for civil behavior laid out in platform standards, and policing and sanctioning behavior. As social media has increasingly become the site for public discourse, platform policies are establishing these social media as ‘de facto regulators’ …

Managing Evidence Synthesis Services In Engineering Libraries, Anne E. Rauh, Amy S. Van Epps, John J. Meier

Librarian Publications

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Our Common Cause: Advocating For Human Labor For Outreach, Technical Expertise, And The Future Of Institutional Repositories, Grace R. Swinnerton, Dylan Mohr

Librarian Publications

Since 2021, SURFACE, Syracuse University’s institutional repository, has seen substantial growth in both content and commitment to long-term digital preservation. This progress is largely due to the Syracuse University Libraries’ investment in a dedicated three-person team focused on sustainability and development. As we face emerging technologies and AI, we question whether AI can replace human labor to reduce costs. Despite the financial appeal of cost-cutting, our presentation underscores the essential role of human labor. Through community-focused outreach and technical advancements like mass minting DOIs and restructuring our platform, we have demonstrated the irreplaceable value of human involvement. This presentation will …

Creating Space For Climate Justice In Library And Information Science, Tami Oliphant, Tyler Youngman, Dan Hackborn, Lisa Nathan, Beth Patin

The Lender Center for Social Justice

This article explores the role of LIS in promoting climate justice, advocating for inclusive and sustainable information practices that address environmental inequities.

Transcending Binaries Of Agency Through Librarians’ Discursive Constructions Of Ai, Sarah Appedu, Jasmina Tacheva

The Lender Center for Social Justice

This article examines how librarians negotiate AI in professional discourse, challenging simplistic human/AI dichotomies. It highlights the nuanced role of professionals in shaping AI agency and implementation.

Oakwood Cemetery Register, Book 1, Computational Dataset, Department Of Digital Stewardship

Collections as Data

This computational dataset was developed from a transcription of Book 1 of the Oakwood Cemetery Registers, held by Oakwood Cemeteries of Syracuse, Inc. in Syracuse, New York. The project to digitize and transcribe the handwritten register was initiated by Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications and accomplished as a joint project between Newhouse, the Syracuse University Libraries, and the Central New York Library Resources Council.

The register documents interments from 8 November 1859 through 27 March 1902 and includes pertinent information about the deceased. The transcribed information has been normalized by Libraries staff for use as computational data. Please …

Oakwood Cemetery Register, Book 1, Transcription Dataset, Department Of Digital Stewardship

Collections as Data

This dataset contains a transcription of Book 1 of the Oakwood Cemetery Registers, held by Oakwood Cemeteries of Syracuse, Inc. in Syracuse, New York. The project to digitize and transcribe this handwritten register was initiated by Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications and accomplished as a joint project between Newhouse, the Syracuse University Libraries, and the Central New York Library Resources Council.

The register documents interments from 8 November 1859 through 27 March 1902 and includes pertinent information about the deceased.

Please scroll to the bottom of this page to access the read_me under "additional files."

The Politics, Policy, And International Relations Section Companion Document To The Framework: Process And Outcomes, Mary K. Oberlies, Brett Cloyd, Erin Ackerman, Stephanie Crowe, Christopher Lemery, Kimberly Macvaugh, Chelsea Nesvig, Winn W. Wasson

Librarian Publications

The Politics, Policy, and International Relations (PPIRS) section of ACRL is a forum for librarians to exchange information and ideas relevant to disciplines such as political science, law, international relations, security studies, public policy, and related fields. From 2018-2021, an ad hoc committee of section members worked to develop an addition to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education focused on the Framework’s applications to PPIRS disciplines, now known as the Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Politics, Policy, and International Relations (the PPIRS Companion Document).1 In this chapter, we provide an …

Niche Publishers Leading Innovation And Transformative Agreements, David Sarsfield, Andrea Lopez, Anne E. Rauh, Graham Anderson

Librarian Publications

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Strategies For Executing Effective Library Programming, Giovanna Colosi, Alex Luck

Librarian Publications

This presentation, "Strategies for Executing Effective Library Programming," explores the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of graduate student-focused library initiatives, with a particular emphasis on the Graduate Research Roundtable Series at Syracuse University. The session delves into key components of program development, including assessing graduate student needs through surveys and direct consultations, designing workshops tailored to various disciplines, securing funding through institutional and external sources, and implementing effective marketing and outreach strategies. Additionally, it addresses logistical considerations such as venue selection, scheduling based on student availability, and the use of digital platforms for event registration and attendance tracking.

We also …

“Our Precious Heritage”: Catholic Subject Headings And The Assertion Of Worldview Through Cataloging, Deirdre Sullivan

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

Catholic Subject Headings, a list of subject headings focused on describing and representing Catholic belief, ritual, and culture, was first published in 1942 by the Catholic Library Association for use in Catholic libraries. The creation of a cataloging tool solely to represent and serve a distinct religious population allows for an imposition of religious worldview by those utilizing Catholic Subject Headings onto the materials they interacted with. The need for a specifically Catholic cataloging system is also revealing of the complex tensions between Catholics and Protestants and within the American Catholic community in 20^th century America.

Experimenting With An Electronic Poster Session In Carlson Library, Susan K. Cardinal

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Recent renovations have added many screens to the University of Rochester Carlson Science & Engineering Library. When an instructor inquired about a print poster session in the library, I proposed a pilot e-poster session to save students time, money and make use of our new technology. This talk will cover the inspiration, logistics and outcome of an e-poster session for an Environmental Science class in the library.

I Need A Standard! Redesigning A Standards Library Guide To Better Meet The Needs Of Engineering Students, Roman Koshykar

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Standards are integral to engineers’ information needs, yet their complexity and uniqueness poses an instruction and outreach challenge. This presentation details the redesign of a library guide on standards undertaken at the RIT Libraries. The focus of the redesign process was on effectively transmitting information on standards to the RIT community at the point of need, detailing what standards are available through library and other sources, how other standards can be requested and acquired, and how engineers and engineering students can work with standards.

Changing Minds And Methods: Providing Health Science Faculty With Optional Systematic Reviews Assignments, Laura Lipke, Neyda Gilman

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Background

Health science librarians frequently engage in discussions about the proper assignment of systematic reviews for graduate students. Such reviews are often assigned as a way to build the research skills students will need in a clinical environment and provide them with a publishable deliverable. In the assignment of these reviews, it has become apparent that health science faculty are often not familiar with the standardized methodologies required. Incorrect methodologies can contribute to research waste and produce evidence that cannot be applied for its intended purpose.

Case presentation

Health science librarians at an R1 institution decided to address the systematic …

Gen Z + Scientific Information Literacy —> A Catalyst For Change, Sherry Larson-Rhodes

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

In the last decade, the traditional college-aged population (ages 18–22) has shifted from Millennials to Gen Z. This generational shift has necessitated pedagogical change, as discovered w/the changing response to a long-used lesson on scientific information literacy. The lesson, which had been used since 2013, specified a pre-class assignment of reading three different types of scientific articles & an in-class discussion about various aspects of the articles, led by the sciences research instruction librarian. Up until about 2018/2019, students had readily responded to the in-class discussion questions w/answers from their pre-class work. However, at that time, & especially upon the …

Let’S Have A Serious Talk About Generative Ai: How Stem Librarians Should Be Leading A Conversation, Juan Denzer

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

As the initial interests in Generative AI tools has moved from something new and unclear to familiar tools that are already being adopted by STEM faculty and students. Vendors such as Elsevier and Clarivate are working on new AI tools that will be incorporated into their existing databases and products. Unlike other 3rd party Generative AI startups, who mostly are trying to monetize their tools by providing a solution to a problem that may or may not exist. Publishers are more cautious in providing an enhanced tool that compliments their existing products. These vendors also have a long history with …

Evidence Synthesis In My Discipline: Yes, No, Maybe So?, Lindsay Bahureksa

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

In the noisy information landscape, evidence synthesis projects provide unbiased information needed to make big decisions. Evidence synthesis, which includes systematic reviews, comprehensively collects information across resources to ensure that the literature synthesis is both unbiased and reproducible. These types of projects have traditionally been run in medical fields, where evidence synthesis informs best practice in high-stake environments. In recent years, however, evidence synthesis projects have begun to grow beyond the medical fields. This presentation will focus on summarizing the shift of evidence synthesis projects in the past ten years—covering the numbers of projects published, the disciplines covered, or the …

Utilizing Your Life Path To Shape Your Research Career, Julius Green Dr.

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

In this talk, Dr. Green will share how his unique life experiences, career trajectory, and personal journey of overcoming challenges shaped his research career. He will explore how these adversities informed his work with undergraduate students, guiding them not only academically but also personally. By embracing his life path, Dr. Green developed a research program that prioritizes resilience, safety, innovation, and inclusivity. Attendees will gain insight into how navigating life’s obstacles can be a powerful tool for shaping one’s academic and professional journey.