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How interculturally competent and inclusive are library faculty and staff, really? And how do we know? In this session we will share the findings of a study that assessed the intercultural competence of library workers, individually and collectively. In the study, library workers were encouraged to expose themselves to other cultures over a 6 month period. After the exposure period, the workers were re-assessed for growth. We will share the findings and discuss intercultural competence in library services and other ways to create inclusive services and course, through the people that create them.

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Many US students are opting to begin their college education at a community college and complete their coursework after transfer to a university. In this case study, more than 900 graduates from a large community college transfer to a nearby university every year. This population is likely to miss the initial university library instruction opportunities usually available to first-year students. This paper will present findings of transfer student data from a survey and interviews conducted to uncover the challenges and opportunities of the transfer student experience and how this impacts their comfort level and ability to do library research.

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Librarians who support and engage with outreach activities often struggle to articulate the impact of their work. While assessment is emphasized throughout other aspects of librarianship, outreach is only beginning to catch up. Supporting outreach work with assessment and both quantitative and qualitative data is important for librarians who need to tell their engagement story. This contributed paper will share the experience of two librarians that are working to align outreach efforts with library and campus strategic goals. This paper will give participants a structure and place to begin a deeper assessment of their outreach plans.

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This presentation focuses on data driven research from both a survey and in person interviews to articulate a roadmap for digital collection managers to navigate copyright challenges stemming from the adoption of standardized rights statements and licenses. Barriers to implementation of the RightsStatements.org statements and Creative Commons licenses will be described, including methods to remove such objections to using the standardized rights statements. Additionally, the research will outline the workflows of institutions that have been successful in the application of RightsStatements.org statements, what barriers they met, and the methods that were used to overcome the challenges they faced.

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What’s in a name? Or perhaps the saying should be “What’s in a result?” When exploring results pages from our favorite search engine, does the resource container matter? How do these information seeking behaviors influence the current information literacy instruction landscape? Learn how students from high school to grad school evaluate the citability and credibility online resources. Find out how students in an IMLS-funded project react when a journal article is reported on in scholarly and popular news. Discover the variety of uses students consider when selecting resources and engage with colleagues to devise new strategies for addressing student needs.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Predatory journals may pose risks to the Open Access movement, faculty and institutional reputations, and scholarship quality. Our research investigated faculty knowledge of dubious publication practices and the strategies scholars employ to avoid them. We expected to discover a need for basic education on predatory publishing. Instead, we found a more complex perspective of publishing culture and journal venues that requires a redirect of the predatory narrative to broaden faculty understanding of legitimate and ethical publication opportunities. Join us to discuss ideas for engaging faculty in deeper conversations about publication trends that go beyond the black and white.