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Integrating A Scholar's Portal And Getting Started Videos, Eric Johnson

Ohio IR Day

Eric Johnson of Miami University, Ohio, described the processes and procedures follow for Miami's Institutional Repository, Scholarly Commons @ MU. Johnson also presented on videos created by the Miami University Libraries for Open Access Week.

Adding Syllabi To Our Institutional Repository: Exhibit, Anne Davies, Michelle Early, Alison Morgan

Ohio IR Day

Anne Davies, Michelle Early, and Alison Morgan of Xavier University presented on the decision to include syllabi in their Institutional Repository, and described the subsequent consequences.

Oberlin College's Open Access Policy, Alan Boyd

Ohio IR Day

Alan Boyd, Interim Director of Libraries at Oberlin College, OH, discussed his campus' Open Access Policy.

It Takes A University: Oer And The Portland State University Reducing Student Costs Initiative, Marilyn K. Moody

SJSU Open Access Conference

OER have a major role to play in student affordability efforts. Portland State University’s Reducing Student Costs Initiative is a broad-based effort to reduce student textbook and course materials costs. This presentation looks at the opportunities and challenges of involving stakeholders from across the campus in this initiative, including faculty, staff, students, administrators, donors, and external partners. OER related strategies of the Initiative, including plans for increasing OER use in courses and programs are described.

The Initiative’s work and implementation plans involving the adoption, use, and creation of OER include:

• Developing courses and programs that utilize OER, including online flexible …

Overcoming Resistance To Open Initiatives On Campus, Gerry Hanley

SJSU Open Access Conference

California State University's (CSU) Affordable Learning Solutions initiative has produced a number of system-wide strategies, technologies and campus-based programs that are driving down the cost of course materials for students while offering greater access to no-cost or low-cost academic content for instructional faculty. In this presentation, Dr. Hanley, Assistant Vice Chancellor at California State University, Chancellor's Office, will focus on the variety of free resources to support teaching and learning via the CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions initiative. The different deployment strategies used by CSU campuses will be showcased and approaches to motivating faculty and administration will be discussed.

Optimizing Merlot For Optimal Ict Literacy, Lesley S. Farmer

SJSU Open Access Conference

Today's students need to locate, use and share information in myriad formats; they need to be ICT (information and communication technology) literacy. The CSU system has started an ICT Literacy Initiative to build out the MERLOT collection of ICT literacy learning objects, and to help faculty integrate ICT literacy into their curricula. This session explains ICT literacy, especially in terms of new standards. Attendees will find out how MERLOT supports ICT literacy, and how they can join and contribute to the ICT literacy community.

Creating An Open Access Course Reserves (When An Oa Textbook Isn't Enough), Jessica Bell

SJSU Open Access Conference

The search for alternatives to high priced textbooks endures. The librarians at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, with the help of an IMLS Sparks! Ignition grant, decided to jump into the fray by creating the Open Access Course Reserves. It is a publicly available, curated repository that provides ready-made reading lists of free, copyright compliant (open access when possible), educational materials. The materials are selected to match typical syllabi and textbook contents and organized by discipline and course. The goal of the project is to create a place for faculty of any higher education course from anywhere in the …

Embedding Affordable Learning Solutions Into The Academic Senate, Aline Soules

SJSU Open Access Conference

Embedding the Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) into the Academic Senate provides a forum and a platform for promoting ALS to and with faculty. At Cal State East Bay, ALS is now a Subcommittee of the Committee on Instruction and Curriculum (CIC) with representation from key constituencies, including a faculty representative from each College and the Library. Recommendations and suggestions can now be routed through CIC to the full Senate. The brief lightning round presentation will explain the process of creating the subcommittee and describe the benefits and challenges the Subcommittee has experienced to date.

2015-10 Library Impact Statement For His 202 Vaccines And Society, Amanda Izenstark

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for HIS 202 Vaccines and Society. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Amanda Izenstark. Requesting faculty: Andrea Rusnock.

2015-10 Library Impact Statement For Gch 104h Tackling Grand Social And Ecological Challenges, Andree Rathemacher

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for GCH 104H Tackling Grand Social and Ecological Challenges. This course was supported with the acquisition of monographic titles purchased from the annual allocation for the subject. Responding library faculty: Andree Rathemacher. Requesting faculty: Silvia Dorado-Banacloche

Cuny Academic Works Workshop: Increase The Reach Of Your Research, Megan Wacha, Jill Cirasella

Events

This slideshow was presented at an Open Access Week event hosted by the LACUNY Professional Development Committee. It introduces the CUNY Academic Works repository and reviews concepts about copyright and authors' rights.

Criss Chronicles, Volume 6, Issue 1

Criss Chronicles Newsletter

This edition of Criss Chronicles features From the Dean's Desk, The Information Exchange, Conversation with Melinda Kozel, Focus on Resources: Women: Transnational Networks, From the Archives: The Fine Arts Press Collection at the Criss Library, Copyright Corner, and an Events Calendar.

It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Outlines how EIU's IR grew rapidly for the first two years.

2015-10 Library Impact Statement For Gch 104h Tackling Grand Social And Ecological Challenges, Andree Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for GCH 104H Tackling Grand Social and Ecological Challenges. This course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Andree Rathemacher. Requesting faculty: Silvia Dorado-Banacloche.

Creating Interactive Online Instruction: The Mcgoogan Library Experience., Teresa L. Hartman, Alissa Fial

Journal Articles: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library

Online instruction is a hot topic at academic medical centers. Seizing the opportunity to join the online movement at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the McGoogan Library created an open access course made up of six learning modules. The modules addressed three issues: 1) supplementing one-shot library instruction, 2) offering opportunity for instruction when a librarian is not embedded in a course, and 3) showcasing the library as an online instruction supporter. This article discusses the planning process, technology used, how the modules were received, and how this initial project increased McGoogan Library's involvement in the UNMC online …

What's New In Preservation At Musselman Library: Student Workers And The Beauty Of The Book, Carolyn Sautter, Mary Wootton

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Musselman Library's Special Collections and College Archives at Gettysburg College involves student workers and interns in our preservation and conservation efforts. The recent addition to the staff of a half-time conservator position has opened up new avenues for training. This has also resulted in additional access points for our students, faculty and other researchers to interact with our collections. This presentation discusses our preservation activities and our new digital collection The Beauty of the Book. It also illustrates how we have engaged student workers in conservation and enhanced cataloging description projects giving them a deeper appreciation for and understanding …

Fifty Years: The Associated College Libraries Of Central Pennsylvania (Or The History Of Aclcp In Less Than 10 Minutes), Robin Wagner

All Musselman Library Staff Works

A brief presentation given by Gettysburg College's Dean of the Library and ACLCP's 2015 President, Robin Wagner, commemorating fifty years of history of the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania.

Lgbtq & You: Connecting Collections With The Campus Community, Mallory R. Jallas, Amy E. Ward

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Musselman Library’s LGBTQ Research Guide, established in 2012, is a resource that goes beyond connecting the library’s collections with the campus community and providing access. This research guide has generated opportunities to grow campus partnerships, foster a student’s interest in librarianship, and create a gateway for research and learning in the LGBTQ community that goes beyond the classroom. In our presentation we will outline the project from its early days as a student project to its current life as collaboration between the library and Gettysburg Colleges’ Office of LGBTQA Advocacy & Education.

It Takes A University: Oer And The Psu Reduce Student Costs Initiative, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

OER have a major role to play in student affordability efforts. Portland State University’s Reducing Student Costs Initiative is a broad-based effort to reduce student textbook and course materials costs. This presentation looks at the opportunities and challenges of involving stakeholders from across the campus in this initiative, including faculty, staff, students, administrators, donors, and external partners. OER related strategies of the Initiative, including plans for increasing OER use in courses and programs are described.

The Initiative’s work and implementation plans involving the adoption, use, and creation of OER include:

• Developing courses and programs that utilize OER, including online flexible …

Open Access – What’S New In The Arts & Humanities?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Learn about some of the newest open access publications and platforms designed to support the open sharing of humanities research. Join a discussion with librarian liaisons to arts and humanities departments about how Gettysburg faculty and the library are involved.

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 17, October 22, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Dacus News Volume 1, Issue 1, Michaela Eileen Volkmar, Dacus Library

Dacus News

Inside this issue:

New Catalog and Login Credentials
How to Set Your Library Account Password
Book A Librarian
Dorm Book Swaps
Semester-Long Loans
Exam Refreshments & Stress-Relief

Jargon-Free Librarianing: Speaking The Language Of Our Patrons, Ashley Brewer, Lucinda Rush, Rachel Stott

Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

Eliminating jargon from our reference interactions, information literacy classes, and online resources is an undertaking that requires cooperation and input from all library departments. Through collaboration with Reference & Research Services and Information Delivery Services, we examined ways our University Libraries currently presents itself both through user experience with our website, during chat and in-person reference interactions, and in information literacy instruction sessions. Our poster will identify core problems jargon-overload present. We will look at how these problems and inconsistencies impact user experience from a Resources Discovery perspective, and provide specific examples from our library. We will provide visuals that …

One Minute Tips: Take Two! Student Perceptions Of Videos Used For Information Literacy Instruction, Lucinda Rush, Rachel Lux, Christopher Lawton, Megan Smith

Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

Digital learning objects are all the rage, but what does the YouTube generation think? We will discuss student perceptions of videos used for information literacy instruction and methods for incorporating short videos into assessable learning activities.

Creating A Culture Of Reading: Readers' Advisory In The Academic Library, Sarah Johnson, Janice Derr, Pamela Ferrell

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Readers' advisory isn’t just for public and school libraries. Popular reading collections in academic libraries can support your patrons’ recreational reading needs and their curricular needs, as well. Topics to be discussed include the benefits and challenges of establishing these collections, undergraduate students’ expectations for offerings in popular fiction and nonfiction in academic libraries, getting your staff involved in working with and promoting these materials, developing local exhibits and book lists, formalizing your commitment to popular reading through your collection development policy, and more.

Need Demographic Statistics? Numbers For Grants, Reports, And Patrons In All Libraries, Stacey Knight-Davis, Daneen Richardson

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Need accurate, free demographic information about your city, county, or school district? Whether you need statistical information for a grant application, facts to support a program, or need to help a student write a term paper, this session will help you find what you need. Statistics are often required to make a point. Finding the statistics you need can be a challenge. We will demonstrate several free online demographic and statistical resources at the state and federal level, as well as show you how to generate custom maps, and give you list of helpful people you can call for assistance.

Digialcommons@Otterbein, Courtright Memorial Library

Library Publications

This campus presentation uses key metrics to assess the first-year impact of the digitalcommons@otterbein institutional repository.

Conflicts Of Interest And Boundary Setting For Growth In Faculty-To-Faculty Mentoring, Barbara E. Weeg

Library Faculty/Staff Publications

In higher education, mentoring is often structured as a relationship between a tenured, senior faculty member and an untenured, junior faculty member to ease the mentee's transition to the organization and to the tripartite faculty responsibilities of teaching, research, and service. Conflicts of interest emerge if the mentor, who has been serving as confidant and guide, participates in the promotion and tenure assessment of the mentee. Is any information shared by the mentee during the mentoring considered confidential? Relevant research and mentorship documents will be analyzed to determine if this conflict of interest is acknowledged and if strategies for setting …

Remarks For True Success Dinner, Delivered On October 21, 2015, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Remarks for True Success Dinner, delivered on October 21, 2015 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

The Anchor, Volume 129.07: October 21, 2015, Hope College

The Anchor: 2015

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.