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Community college librarians regularly participate in outreach and training events to connect with teaching faculty. However, these events are often limited in terms of scope, duration, and level of interactivity. This session details a community college library’s development of online “mini-courses” for teaching faculty. The session will illustrate how library faculty used an instructional design model to develop and improve two “mini-courses” intended to speed OER adoption on campus, and it will explain why developing online mini-courses represents a significant professional development opportunity for librarians. Finally, the impact of the mini-courses upon a community college’s OER dialogue will be considered.

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TRUE: Students use academic libraries as places of study and group work. TRUE: Students who utilize effective study strategies are more likely to succeed academically. TRUE: People become attached to places that are useful, and where they feel they belong. TRUE? If library spaces are designed based on place attachment theory and effective study strategies, students will find these spaces supportive of their academic success. Researchers used formal and informal methods in an effort to answer this question. Join them in a discussion of methods used and results generated and engage in some interactive exercises in this lively session.

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The professional debate around demonstrating the value of academic libraries has turned to a legitimate concern for protecting the privacy of students and their data. We will share a vision for academic library value research that involves mixed methods research, as a way to bridge the conversation about library value through quantitative and qualitative methods. We will also present our experiences conducting a value of libraries study while considering and preserving student privacy. Attendees will share their philosophies regarding the value of libraries and student privacy and engage in a kinesthetic debate about this issue with colleagues.

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Librarians who support and engage with outreach activities often struggle to articulate the impact of their work. While assessment is emphasized throughout other aspects of librarianship, outreach is only beginning to catch up. Supporting outreach work with assessment and both quantitative and qualitative data is important for librarians who need to tell their engagement story. This contributed paper will share the experience of two librarians that are working to align outreach efforts with library and campus strategic goals. This paper will give participants a structure and place to begin a deeper assessment of their outreach plans.

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This presentation focuses on data driven research from both a survey and in person interviews to articulate a roadmap for digital collection managers to navigate copyright challenges stemming from the adoption of standardized rights statements and licenses. Barriers to implementation of the RightsStatements.org statements and Creative Commons licenses will be described, including methods to remove such objections to using the standardized rights statements. Additionally, the research will outline the workflows of institutions that have been successful in the application of RightsStatements.org statements, what barriers they met, and the methods that were used to overcome the challenges they faced.

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What’s in a name? Or perhaps the saying should be “What’s in a result?” When exploring results pages from our favorite search engine, does the resource container matter? How do these information seeking behaviors influence the current information literacy instruction landscape? Learn how students from high school to grad school evaluate the citability and credibility online resources. Find out how students in an IMLS-funded project react when a journal article is reported on in scholarly and popular news. Discover the variety of uses students consider when selecting resources and engage with colleagues to devise new strategies for addressing student needs.