Author Archive: ltevents
Untangling the Search Ecosystem: Understanding Librarian Relevancy Judgments to Improve Discovery Services
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How would you evaluate search results if you didn’t know which discovery tool produced them? Librarians in this study did just that. Find out what happens to perceptions of relevancy when you strip away the interface and other identifying features. Learn how this methodology could help you compare multiple discovery tools or different potential customizations of the same tool. It’s a jungle out there! Stop guessing and start letting your data do the heavy-lifting. |
Seeking Multicultural Connections: Designing Your Own Human Library
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Discover an innovative way for academic libraries to increase awareness of diversity issues, civic responsibility, and global engagement through The Human Library. The Human Library, created by an international organization, humanlibrary.org, consists of sessions where “readers” are able to “check out” a human book who has a story to share about his/her experiences with stereotyping or prejudice. Through meaningful conversations, “readers” listen to a “book” chosen from the available catalog that addresses a personally held prejudice in order to appreciate the humanity in all people. |
Learning It Deeper: Student/Librarian LibGuide Creation
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A reference librarian and a faculty member collaborated on a project that required students to recommend content for a new LibGuide. Students influenced design decisions and content by sharing their views on what was useful and appealing in LibGuides. The librarian and faculty member co-taught deeper-level information literacy concepts, while students became information generators by recommending and ranking content for the new guide. |
3D Technology in the Academic Library: Informing, Collaborating, and Implementing
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Learn about a collaboration between an academic library and a campus innovation center that inspired the creation of a library-based 3D technology service. Through hands-on workshops, librarians raised awareness of 3D technology and gathered feedback about the technology from workshop participants. In addition to hosting workshops, librarians engaged in outreach efforts with campus departments to identify 3D technology needs and to build support for a centralized, collaborative library-based service. |
Emergency Procedures for the Academic Library: Crafting a Policy that Works
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While the creation of an emergency procedures plan is a standard task for academic libraries, chances are that these policies receive little revision after their inception. That was the case for one university library who decided to revisit their policy upon the arrival of a new dean. This library was surprised to find that their policy had several holes, and set about to update the policy to reflect a strong commitment to safety. |
Chat Transcript Analysis: Librarians vs. Student Assistants
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How effective are student reference assistants at answering chat reference questions as compared to professional librarians? That’s the question we were asking ourselves at Bowling Green State University when we realized that a high percent of our chat reference questions were research based. Should we be letting our student assistants staff this service? To help us answer these questions, we evaluated 150 chat reference transcripts using a 13 question rubric. Our analysis indicated that librarians generally did a better job than student assistants answering chat reference questions, especially when it came to research based questions, but we also determined our undergraduate student assistants to be quite competent chat reference service providers! In some evaluative areas (i.e. building rapport and closing statements), student assistants scored as well, or nearly as well, as librarians; however, we also identified areas (i.e. completeness of answer & appropriate referrals) where additional training is needed. |
Go Open, Go Digital: Improving Comprehension in Digital Reading
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The use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and digital-only collections is increasing in colleges and libraries, but research has determined that people read slower and with poorer comprehension when reading online. Through a Faculty Learning Community at a two-year college, librarians and subject faculty are researching whether targeted instruction or different digital mediums improve comprehension. |
Adaptable, Sustainable Information Literacy Assessment: Four Institutions Collaborate on an Information Literacy Assessment Tool
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Recognizing a shared need to make evidence-based decisions about their information literacy programs, four post-secondary institutions of similar scope and size have designed a multi-phased, collaborative research project to investigate the information literacy (IL) skills of their students. This poster will highlight aspects of the collaboration that has resulted in a sustainable, cost-effective and adaptable information literacy assessment tool, and present initial findings on the nature of information literacy learning and teaching at our institutions. |
Kilowatts, Libraries, and Understanding Where the Energy Goes: A Mini-Study of the Power Requirements for a Library’s Equipment and Practical Advice for Conservation
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Electrical energy is a lifeblood to libraries. It powers our computers, scanners, printers, copy machines, and a seemingly endless number of items. With the near unrestricted access to this critical resource, though, also comes the responsibility to be good stewards and to promote conservation. This presentation will describe how one library conducted a mini-study of the electrical energy requirements for its computers and support equipment. With the support of inexpensive and commercially available test devices, the study evaluated each different mode of equipment readiness. The energy consumption results were then analyzed and applied to the institution’s electrical kilowatt-hour rate schedule to highlight comparison information. Join the discussion in this engaging presentation and learn more about the potential conservation applications! |