Rethinking Library Transformation: A 3D Modeling Approach and Minecraft

 

Presented by:

  • Michael Meth, Director
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Library, University of Toronto
 

Description:

Are you curious about ways to provide new digital access models to your library for your community? Our virtual poster highlights and demonstrates some of our efforts in the area of 3D modelling in Minecraft and 3D Via. Learn more about our initiatives and our experience in working with students, faculty, and community. Using the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) library at the University of Toronto as a case study, we are working on developing two approaches to model the real library into a three-dimensional virtual library. In an immersive game environment, the virtual library environments allow participants to use an avatar to walk virtually through the library and collections, and interact with other users. This virtualization project explores agile alternatives to improving the library via the results and feedback gathered from this model. In phase one, we are examining topics including potential location of different library services, the present physical arrangements vs. potential future arrangements, the location of resources, accessibility and usability, and considering new formats for basic library instruction (especially via Minecraft). As we move forward, we hope to further develop the virtual environments to allow for faculty/student and librarian interaction, and to create a social platform for interaction, and provision and promotion of library services. We invite you to share your thoughts and collaborate with us.

 

Data Rehash: Visualizing and Contextualizing Data in your Visual Resources Collection

 

Presented by:

  • Erin McCall, ARTstor
 

Description:

This poster will demonstrate how one institution visualizes their growing digital image database. By managing the data locally, they successfully collaborated with their database provider to implement an application programming interface (API) that reveals connections between exhibitors’ locations and trends in artists’ materials in their data. The result is a dynamic visual platform that is accessible to the institution’s staff and faculty, and can be leveraged by other institutions that are interested in the API.

 

Visualizing Electronic Resources Data Using a Statistics Dashboard

 

Presented by:

  • Marie R. Kennedy, Loyola Marymount University
  • Marisa Ramirez, Loyola Marymount University
 

Description:

Statistics are necessary to measure the usage of acquired materials. However, visualizing those statistics is often difficult due to daunting amounts of raw data. A dashboard was created in order to compile and simplify usage statistics from library material that includes e-journals, databases, and e-books, as well as facts related to print periodicals. Using Google Sites as the home for the dashboard webpage, usage statistics are readily available to librarians from any location.

 

Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: Identifying, Preserving, and Promoting the Literature of a University’s Biological Field Station

 

Presented by:

  • Julie Kelly, University of Minnesota
 

Description:

Many universities have biological field stations. We recently reinvigorated our relationship with our university’s main biological field station and joined them in a project to enhance access to student and faculty research conducted at the station. This resulted in digitizing nearly 2900 student papers, enhancing the metadata associated with both those papers and the faculty documents, and identifying faculty research that could currently or potentially be made more widely available.

 

Creating a Discoverable and Sustainable Collection from Regional Digital Archives

 

Presented by:

  • Brenda Hazard, Hudson Valley Community College
  • Katie Jezik, Hudson Valley Community College
 

Description:

This session reviews how a community college library created an institutional repository collection for EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) using digital archival records from CONTENTdm. The collection includes 10,000 records from regional academic and public libraries and museums. Four academic libraries have added it to their EDS. The collection expands through scheduled harvesting, providing stable sustainable growth. Another group of libraries in the state will soon join the project, increasing collection scope and audience.

 

Incoming Transfer Students: Who are They, Where are They, How Can We Bridge the Gap?

 

Presented by:

  • Karen Stanley Grigg, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • Lea Leininger, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
     
  • Contributor: Jenny Dale, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
 

Description:

This narrated PowerPoint presentation includes description of an online survey of information literacy in incoming transfer students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

 

Creating Sustainable Collaborations: Developing a Referral Slip Program

 

Presented by:

  • Elise Ferer, Drexel University (previously Dickinson College)
 

Description:

Collaborate with your writing center to reach a new community of users and identify students who need research and citation help by incentivizing tutors to refer students to librarians. Work directly with writing tutors to help them identify students who need your help and then develop an effective means to refer those students to a librarian while collecting data that can point to future collaboration and outreach efforts.

 

The Library as an Incubator of Multicultural Awareness

 

Presented by:

  • Orlando Duffus, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
 

Description:

Human beings are ethnocentric; we often see the world through our own narrow view and judge the world by what is familiar to us. This event created a dialogue about uncomfortable topics such as discrimination and stereotyping. Having these difficult conversations helps the Library to develop a strategic vision that will accommodate and promote optimum transparency and inclusion of all the members within the university’s community. This poster walks through the ways in which the Library utilizes the Diversity Resident Librarian to partner with other university departments to create a new campus initiative. The pool of diverse beliefs and thoughts provided useful insights that impacted the new strategic vision of the library and the university.

 

Video Tutorials for Recurring Reference: The Chem Abstracts Library Assignment at Stephen F. Austin State University

 

Presented by:

  • Erica Chapman, Stephen F. Austin State University
 

Description:

I created video tutorials for the infamous Chem Abstracts assignment on our campus to aid in answering recurrent reference questions during busy times of the semester. Screencast video tutorials are quick and easy for students to access and provide students with the help they need when a librarian may be unavailable.

 

What Students Really do in the Library: An Observational Study in Four Academic Libraries

 

Presented by:

  • Dr. Amy Catalano, Hofstra University
  • Prof. Lawrence Paretta, LIU Post
 

Description:

Researchers observed nearly 3,000 student behaviors in four post-secondary libraries to determine the types of study or non-study behaviors demonstrated. Ultimately, whether students had a mobile device readily available best predicted whether they demonstrated a study, as opposed to a non-study, behavior. Additionally, if students were found in quiet study or computer areas, they were more likely to be performing study behaviors.