Author Archive: ltevents

Making micro-credentials smarter:  Using AI to Improve the Learning Experience for Librarians and Students

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Session Description:
It’s an understatement to say that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the world. In fact, it will revolutionize the world, and in every way of life, including education. Thus, in order to be on the cutting edge, libraries and higher education need to begin to understand ways AI can be used and harness its power. This session will demonstrate an innovative application of AI to the new form of academic currency–the micro-credential–and discuss how this application could lead to broader uses in libraries and academia.

 

Making a Positive Impact as a Library Leader: A Qualitative Study of Past and Future Library Leaders

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This study analyzed responses from 318 academic librarians in order to understand what leadership traits had a positive effect on their work lives and what traits future library leaders need. Their responses were grouped into seven leadership themes for past positive leaders: emotional intelligence, empowering, visionary thinker, communicator, librarian/manager, trustworthy, and a catalyst for change; and six themes for future library leaders: people first, visionary, change agent, experienced librarian, role model, and communicator. The leadership themes of past positive and future library leaders overlap on five themes: inter and intrapersonal skills, visioning, communicating, change agent, and competent and experienced librarian.

 

Make your online content accessible to all (not just those who can see your library website)

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Learn how students perceive library content through assistive technology and how that can go a long way to understanding how and why accessibility best practices work. This session will demonstrate several easy-to-use tools and how they can provide insight for preparing universally accessible content for your library’s online services. You will also gain access to a sharable toolkit you can bring home to your library content creators.  

 

Lightning Talks 3

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Each five-minute Lightning Talk consists of a maximum of 20 slides that advance automatically every 15 seconds. These inspiring sessions provide quick glimpses of the latest innovations, interesting ideas and new technologies and services.

 

Lightning Talks 2

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Session Description:
Each five-minute Lightning Talk consists of a maximum of 20 slides that advance automatically every 15 seconds. These inspiring sessions provide quick glimpses of the latest innovations, interesting ideas and new technologies and services.

 

Lightning Talks 1

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Session Description:
Each five-minute Lightning Talk consists of a maximum of 20 slides that advance automatically every 15 seconds. These inspiring sessions provide quick glimpses of the latest innovations, interesting ideas and new technologies and services.

 

Lightboard Videos for Library Outreach and First-Year Engineers

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Session Description:
Would you like to create videos for use in a flipped classroom library environment? Would it be helpful to incorporate real-time writing, videos, props, or slides in these videos? If you answered yes to both of these questions, consider making lightboard-based videos. This session will describe one institution’s use of lightboard technology for library outreach and a design-based first-year engineering class. Participants will leave understanding lightboard capabilities and best practices, and will brainstorm topics to make lightboard-based videos for use in their instruction sessions.

 

Libraries Lead the Charge: Best Practices for Engaging Student Veterans

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As academic libraries continue to recognize the unique needs of student veterans, they must seek ways to revise old and create new services and increase overall support to this growing population. In this “boot camp,” panelists actively engaged in providing library services to student veterans will discuss research findings, innovative approaches to providing outreach, and lessons learned in the process of implementing programs and services. This session will introduce attendees to a variety of ways libraries have engaged veterans and those actively serving, and equip them with reliable “intel” that can be implemented immediately at their home institutions.

 

Librarians are doin’ it for themselves: Developing our own open-source ILS

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Session Description:
Librarians are no longer waiting for vendors to produce software that doesn’t really do what they need it to, at a price they can’t really afford. Software companies and developers have been telling librarians what they want and need for far too long–now librarians are stepping up and saying this is no longer acceptable. Case in point is the new Integrated Library System (ILS) being developed on the open-source FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP) in conjunction with roughly a dozen academic libraries. Over 100 academic librarians from these libraries are working on the project as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Special Interest Group (SIG) conveners, members of the Product Council (which is responsible for guiding the development of the product and prioritizing the work), Product Owners, and in other roles. This panel discussion will highlight why the libraries involved have decided to develop their next ILS, the pivotal role of librarians on the project, and how the project has impacted the libraries involved. We will start the session with a brief overview of the project organization and the development process, in order to frame the discussion to follow.

 

Leveraging Visual Literacy to Engage and Orient First-Year College Students in the Library

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Incoming students often leave their library orientation session overwhelmed and overstressed, but this does not need to be the case. Visual literacy and visual culture can be leveraged to engage students and improve library orientation sessions. Students enrolled in select sections of the First Year Experience (FYE) courses at 2 public universities engaged in an alternate approach to library orientation, which made use of hands-on learning and peer teaching, as well as visual literacy. This session will discuss the activity’s structure, theoretical basis, and assessment, and the importance of addressing the social and emotional dimensions of learning in library instruction.