Author Archive: ltevents

Connecting the Digital Student to the Virtual Learning Commons: Librarians Collaborating with Learning Commons Colleagues to Reach Students through Web Conferencing Applications

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Session Description:
In this presentation, we will walk through the collaborative process by which our library/learning commons developed and implemented innovative approaches to anytime, anywhere student-centered support in service to the diverse needs of our students. We will explore how our use of online meeting and web conferencing applications provided a seamless portal to multiple options for students to engage with librarians and other learning commons professionals. We will illustrate how this digital platform supports the diverse learning styles of students and creates a setting that encourages student engagement with the integrated virtual services that will foster student success and retention.

 

Connect the Campus Data Dots: Using Institutional Systems to Support Students When They Need It Most

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Session Description:
Integrated planning and advising services (IPAS), early alert, and engagement systems have proliferated in recent years as institutions adopt a unified approach to promoting and documenting student success. How do libraries fit into this picture? Can such systems connect students more easily with information literacy and reference support? Increase the impact of the library on student learning? Improve collaboration with other support services? Join a lively panel discussion about the benefits, challenges, best practices, and the “state of the art” of using campus data systems to connect students and librarians in support of student learning and success.

 

Collaborating with Students to Find and Evaluate Open Educational Resources in Engineering

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Session Description:
Librarians are experts at finding resources, but often need the input of subject matter experts to identify “good” study materials. Librarians worked with faculty and students in Introduction to Engineering, an entry-level course, to identify open educational resources to supplement the existing textbook in the course. Described in this paper is the process we undertook to find, collect, evaluate, and deploy OER in the course, along with takeaways and lessons that we learned. The evaluation and tailoring of materials to a particular course and the topics covered therein create a model that can be reproduced in other courses.

 

Chinese Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Library Services

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Session Description:
In this presentation, the researchers will share lessons learned from the study conducted at their institution in 2016 where they explored how and why Chinese business students utilized their home country’s academic library versus the academic library at this institution. This interactive presentation will frequently solicit audience participation and provide ample time for Q&A.

 

Challenging the “Good Fit” Narrative: Creating Inclusive Recruitment Practices in Academic Libraries

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Session Description:
As a profession, we talk the talk of valuing diversity and inclusion, but do we walk the walk with our hiring practices? The profession stresses the importance of “a good fit” when hiring, but we rarely interrogate the fact that “a good fit” can be a reflection of our implicit biases. Academic librarians conducted a survey of hiring policies with a focus on the processes (or lack thereof) of recruiting candidates from underrepresented groups. This session will report on their findings and recommend the implementation of specific practices designed to create an inclusive candidate pool and an equitable search

 

Capturing the Narrative: Understanding Qualitative Researchers’ Needs and Potential Library Roles

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Session Description:
Though libraries have used the research life cycle model successfully to design and implement research data management services, many of these services tend to privilege quantitative approaches. On our four-year research intensive campus, support for qualitative analysis has only been offered variably, compared to enduring, consistent support for quantitative research. Observing a rise in qualitative and mixed methods research, we are investigating a) unmet needs of qualitative researchers on our campus and b) the utility of the research life cycle model for developing relevant services. In this session, we present preliminary findings from an ongoing series of semi-structured interviews with faculty, graduate students, and librarians.

 

Build Your Own Research Database Using DocFetcher Open Source Software

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Session Description:
Commercial library databases are convenient and user-friendly, but what happens when you have a large amount of unique full-text documents that you want to make searchable? Have you ever tried to do a keyword search on a .PDF that is hundreds of pages long? It is an interminably slow process. This presentation will discuss how Chris has utilized open source DocFetcher software and digitized materials from Hathi Trust and the Internet Archive to research a book on Illinois bicycle history. It will also provide a live demonstration of how DocFetcher works in practice. This presentation has practical applications for anyone undertaking large text-based research projects as well as for indexing and searching unique library collections.

 

Bring Your LibrARry to Life: Recasting Library Instruction and Outreach Through the Use of BlippAR, A Free Augmented Reality Tool, to Create Immersive and Multimodal Learning Experiences

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Session Description:
Are you interested in bringing static exhibits to life that allow exhibit items “talk” to visitors? Or enhancing instruction by providing an engaging and innovative way for students to customize their learning experience? In this session, you will learn about cost-effective ways to immerse your library users into multimodal, interactive experiences through augmented reality (AR) using free online tools such as BlippAR. Through AR individuals can add layers of information, social media sources, and a plethora of electronic resources to existing reality to immerse individuals in a participative experience in library exhibits and information literacy instruction.

 

Bridging the Gap: Embedding Library Instruction in First Year Writing Online

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Session Description:
In this session, panelists (an instructional design librarian, a subject librarian, and a writing program administrator) will discuss how they partnered to develop course-embedded learning modules for a new online first year writing course. Project goals included creating content that was embedded within the course’s writing units and avoided participating in the banking model of instruction. Panelists will talk about the technical aspects of building the modules, including their experience with Articulates Rise and Storyline and Adobe Captivate, how they set accessibility and universal design priorities and met the university’s standards for WCAG2.0 accessibility.

 

Breaking free of curricular confines: seeking new opportunities to teach critical media literacy in the era of “fake news”

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Session Description:
The recent rise in “fake news” has brought renewed attention to developing students’ critical thinking and media literacy skills. Librarians, as both experts in the pedagogy of information literacy and as curricular outsiders have an opportunity to develop creative programming that addresses these skills, and find spaces where autonomous teaching practices that produce life-long learners and informed citizens can be cultivated. Ideas on how to apply the Framework to media literacy education, create programming to extend instruction and outreach efforts across campus communities, and emerge as campus leaders in information/media literacy and critical thinking pedagogy will be discussed.