Author Archive: ltevents

Reframing Reference Services for Marginalized Students: A Participatory Visual Study

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How can academic librarians improve reference services for marginalized students? How can research into library use center students’ ideas and lived experiences? These questions were investigated through the use of Photovoice, a participatory method that combines photography, interviews, and group discussion to create change regarding an issue. Attendees will gain insight into how 11 undergraduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds seek information in their everyday and academic activities, and learn about students’ recommendations and potential implications for the development and redesign of reference services.?

 

Redefining the Academic Library Space: Conducting Outreach Through a Pop-Up Model

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Interested in a low-cost way to engage patrons with library collections and services? You have probably heard of pop-up libraries, but have you considered how to implement this type of outreach at your institution? Presenters will offer several pop-up models from two different institutions and discuss lessons learned. Academic librarians are interacting with patrons outside of their spaces, promoting collections and services in new ways. In this session, librarians from the Public University 1 and Public University 2 will discuss the different models they have used to bring library collections and services to a variety of locations across their campuses.

 

Reconceptualizing the Conference Experience: Employing Grassroots Efforts in Conference Planning to Promote Inclusivity and Accessibility

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Conferences are seen as a central component to spread knowledge, gather new ideas, and network within the library profession. Despite this, conferences often remain inaccessible to many library staff for a variety reasons, whether due to cost, time, travel distance, personal obligations, etc., thus reinforcing the inequalities that permeate our profession. Panelists who have all planned small-scale grassroots conferences will discuss their various organizing approaches, how those approaches met the needs of their communities, as well as dilemmas and difficulties encountered during planning in order to reconceptualize the status quo and disrupt the power dynamics typically reinforced by large-scale conferences.

 

Recoding the Academic Librarian: Our Developing Role as Data Detectives

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Secondary data reference is rapidly becoming a baseline skill for library professionals across subject areas. Learn about the landscape of secondary data reference in academic libraries to prepare for this vital area of expertise. Collected survey data reveal common types of data questions received, the patron demographics where most questions arise, librarians’ reports of patrons’ data literacy skills, and how a librarian’s overall level of job responsibility and experience impacts their data reference work. Discover how librarians tackle these questions, frustrations they experience, and strategies and tips for improving data reference services and practice.

 

Reclaiming Our Time: A Conversation with Tenure-Track Academic Librarians of Color

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Session Description:
In this moderated panel, librarians of color in tenure-track faculty positions will discuss their experiences in a profession that values diversity but continues to fail to diversify. While this conversation is not a new one, it is an essential one to continue having. The participants represent all areas of academic libraries: reference, instruction, collection management, archives, technical services, and supervision. The guided dialogue will touch on issues such as recruitment and hiring, research agendas and service choices, tokenism and microaggressions. This conversation centers librarians of color while giving all participants an opportunity to listen, engage, and learn.

 

Recasting the Parentative: Seeking Balance Amidst the Busyness

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When you think of academic librarian parents, what comes to mind? Many people stereotype parents and unfortunately university, local, and national leaders make policies impacting them based on these false assumptions. This presentation will extend previous work-life balance conversations by sharing the results of a survey about librarian-parent stereotypes, providing attendees with the opportunity to discuss how these stereotypes have impacted them and work together to develop an agenda to change the policies resulting from these biases.

 

Recasting the Library’s Architecture: How two university libraries planned the transformation of their space to remain relevant in this fast-paced, evolving academic landscape of the 21st century.

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Discover how two very different, well-known university libraries navigated the master planning process to recast their library’s physical space to better align with evolving roles, student needs and their institution’s mission. Both library deans will share insight into challenges encountered in bringing library needs to the forefront of their university’s consciousness and how they advocated for action on their “best laid plans.” Valuable take-aways will be shared with attendees struggling with how to better leverage their physical space to meet current demands, build consensus, involve students and faculty, and answer the universal question: What will all of this cost?”

 

Recasting the Affordable Learning Conversation: Considering Both Cost Savings and Deeper Learning Opportunities

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We present Deeper Learning (DL) as a valuable theoretical framework to recast the affordable learning conversation from one based on cost-savings to a narrative of pedagogical opportunities that encourage 21st century skills and transferable knowledge. Recent research has indicated that students may not be cultivating modes of critical thinking related to the DL framework. The development of these skills require instructors to engage students in the classroom, encouraging an active role in their learning that can increase student success. Faculty who adopt affordable materials often do so with a goal of improving student learning and critical thinking skills.

 

Recasting the 21st Century Community College Library: Transforming the Student Experience through Space Planning and Assessment

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Find out how space utilization, perception, and needs assessment data provide an understanding of what students need in library spaces in order to design buildings that transform their experience of library as place. This project aimed to fill a gap in research on community college student needs for library spaces that support three activities shown in the literature to be the focus of library design: quiet study, communal work, and content creation. This research and programming process represents an attempt to develop a model for a 21st Century community college library.

 

Recasting the “one-shot” for student success: Causal research findings for more effective library instruction

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Are you concerned about student retention of information literacy skills? Do you ever notice students eyes’ glazing over halfway through your one-shot instruction sessions? Research shows that our digital devices are changing the way we learn, process, and retain information. In this session, we present the results of a causal study on the effectiveness of frequent, short instruction sessions compared to traditional 60-minute one-shot sessions in learning basic information literacy concepts. It’s time to recast the one-shot for student success. In a participatory session, attendees will learn to apply these research findings to their own information literacy instruction practices.