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This interactive session introduces the audience to two liaison librarians’ experience as mentors in a unique partnership between the library and the office of undergraduate research. The librarians served as primary faculty mentors guiding undergraduates through a summer research program focusing on the role of the libraries within various disciplines. We will discuss the challenges of mentoring outside of one’s primary academic discipline, and highlight the benefits of the program. This session is relevant to librarians interested in mentorship, starting a similar program at their institutions, growing relationships with other disciplines, or becoming immersed in the the student research process.

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Leaders come from all areas of an academic library; however, there are certain factors that contribute to leadership development. This paper discusses how academic libraries can cultivate leadership at all levels within their organization through a number of methods, including the adoption and communication of a clear strategic organizational vision statement. Do you consider yourself a leader, and if not, have you ever thought of recasting yourself in that role? Learn how your organization’s vision statement may be the reason you do or do not consider yourself a leader.

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What would it take for university libraries to develop the same kind of buy-in with scientists as they often have with humanists? A major challenge is that how libraries offer research support are disproportionate to the scale and structure of scientific research. This session shares findings on scholars’ evolving research activities in chemistry, agriculture, public health, and civil and environmental engineering, in order to explore how libraries can effectively structure scientific research support. Attendees will reflect on how their library currently structures scientific research support and, building on the findings shared, identify opportunities for improving how those services are designed.

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What is the librarian’s role in institutional learning analytics efforts? Are librarians bound by historical choices with regard to individual-level student information? How can librarians, as members of the institutional educational team, participate in learning analytics to support individual student learning, engagement, and academic success? Learn about the work of a federally-funded grant on libraries and learning analytics, and reflect on potential paths for librarian involvement in support of student success.

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What do you do when you know you can lead, but your internal narrative tells you otherwise? This is not a unique occurrence amongst emerging leaders in academia, in fact it has a name, Impostor Phenomenon (IP). IP has been identified in leadership of higher education although rarely address in academic libraries. This paper will focus on sharing survey results of current library leaders and how they identify and change their internal narrative to become confident and competent leaders.

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In the face of increasing rates of anxiety among college students, how should instruction librarians respond? This session will raise awareness about the prevalence of anxiety among the college student population, discuss potential social forces behind the increase of anxiety, and share information about alternative pedagogical approaches that can help instruction librarians be more responsive to anxiety in the classroom.

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Librarians play a leading role in promoting openness in scholarly communication, including open access, open data, and public accountability. However, individual researchers remain reluctant to embrace open scholarship or change their communication habits, largely because scholars who practice what we preach are disadvantaged in the current promotion and tenure process. Universities’ present interest in openness initiatives provide an opportunity to advocate for reform. Learn why librarians must push for a promotional system that rewards open scholarship at the institutional level to see genuine progress in research integrity and public access.

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Do you ever feel like your students are speaking a different language? Are you interested in how students actually go about doing their research assignments? This presentation addresses these questions and more through a textual analysis of 20 in-depth, qualitative interviews conducted with undergraduates about their research process. The presenters utilize the textual analysis tool Voyant to provide a quantitative analysis of the students’ language use and apply narrative inquiry to explore how students make sense of the research process.

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Teaching and Learning Centers in higher education are a growing force for educational development and changing the culture of teaching and learning. Librarians can transform their role as educators through joining forces with these Centers and developing a repertoire of approaches for becoming strategic partners, including the use of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy as a catalyst for conversations and collaborations. This paper presents survey results from higher education teaching and learning centers across the U.S. which explore the involvement of librarians and perceptions of their contributions. These results point to ways for implementing deeper teaching and learning collaborations.

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The engaged, prolifically-publishing professional librarian can be typecast as a tenure-track scholar. But what if non-tenure-track librarians step up to the audition? What challenges would they face? In this presentation, we will report on the factors influencing professional participation by non-tenure-track librarians specifically, and their feelings regarding those factors and challenges. Through this nationally-distributed study, we propose a recasting of academic librarian identity outside of the tenure process. Based on our results and our own experiences, we will offer best practices for better inclusion of non-tenure track-librarians in professional activities while also presenting starting points for further discussion and examination of this topic.