Working at the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication: New Models for Engaging Students, Faculty, and Librarians

 

Session Description:
In 2013, ACRL published a white paper titled Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment, which called for a more integrated approach to scholarly communication and information literacy outreach. This panel aims to continue the conversation started by the Intersections white paper, renewing the discussion about the value of intersectional work and providing new case studies and potential applications for participants to consider. The panel will conclude with audience participation about how the library community can structurally encourage cross-pollination between these two groups and continue to find new and emerging intersections.

 

Women as Leaders: Explorations in Authenticity, Breaking from Toxicity, and Feminist Ideals

 

Session Description:
Seasoned librarians who have transitioned into managerial positions will explore and share strategies regarding how their work has changed without sacrificing their personal philosophies and work ethic. By reflecting on their leadership philosophy, they are productive in their own librarianship while supporting staff. Panelist will discuss theories of leadership, overcoming the isolation felt when transitioning to positions of power, and maintaining their authentic identities as library professionals, women, and minorities. The integration of feminist framework in daily activities allows space for nurturing and reflection without sacrificing authority while gaining agency to overcome stumbling blocks that women suffer throughout their careers.

 

Transfer Student Success: Dismantling Deficit-Oriented Approaches

 

Session Description:
Transfer students come to higher education with military, work, family, and educational experiences that often contribute to their confident, independent use of library resources. We are moving away from a deficit model – no gaps, shocks, or failures here! In this moderated conversation, four librarians from varied institutions will share findings from surveying and interviewing transfer students and the librarians who work with them. The discussion will include dismantling common assumptions about transfer students by acknowledging their diverse lived experiences. This panel will inspire you to create new initiatives and collaborations in order to contribute to transfer student success.

 

User-centered design in context

 

Session Description:
We have made great strides in shifting our focus toward embedding libraries into the lives of students, faculty and staff, rather than expecting them to come to us. User needs and user-driven data drive our most successful innovations. Panelists including user experience experts from outside the library industry, and librarians from several types of academic libraries, will share perspectives on user- and data-driven web design. The panel, experts in user experience and web design, will provide practical examples of techniques that will increase the effectiveness of our work to deliver exceptional user experiences through websites and other online tools.

 

Using Change Management to Build Inclusion and Equity in Your Organization

 

Session Description:
While change is a constant in libraries today, many of us are not prepared to cope with the uncertainty it can create. Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into a constantly fluctuating environment leaves many of us overwhelmed and at a loss as to where to start. Drawing from organization development theories, including change management, can give librarians the ability to more productively navigate change in general but can also create agency for building and sustaining diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as part of a healthy organizational culture.

 

Valuing our expertise: Asserting teaching librarians’ roles in campus conversations

 

Session Description:
Teaching librarians often are viewed as playing a support role in our institutions’ teaching and research missions, yet our expertise in areas like information ecologies and information literacy pedagogy is instrumental in advancing student learning. Asserting our unique knowledge strengthens our voices in campus conversations. Examples from our panelists will illustrate how we have successfully developed and become recognized on our campuses as: disciplinary experts, faculty development facilitators, and teachers. We will also discuss pitfalls that can undermine librarians’ positions as campus leaders, as well as practical strategies to support new librarians seeking to develop and claim their own expertise.

 

What’s Next?: Reimagining Mentoring and Leadership Development

 

Session Description:
As our profession changes, opportunities arise all around us; will you be ready when the door opens? Mentoring and professional development attentions often focus on early-career librarians, but your needs might have changed just when you “graduated” from all that helpful guidance. This session will help you map your own career plan, identify potential opportunities, as well as discover potential gaps and barriers to reaching them. The attendees will work together to develop strategies for modifying long-standing institutional and professional conditions to improve opportunities for mid-career librarians. Individuals will begin to explore their future career paths with intentionality and self-reflection.

 

When Research Gets Trolled: Digital Safety for Open Researchers

 

Session Description:
Researchers who make their work publicly accessible, especially those from underrepresented or marginalized communities, can come under vicious personal and professional online attack. This can be a real issue for those who research topics the public may define as controversial. Currently, there are few academic institutions proactively working to educate scholars on digital safety, and many researchers are unsure of how to prevent or remedy attacks on their digital privacy. This session will explore how academic libraries can (and are) raising awareness around researchers’ digital safety and privacy as one way help to safeguard intellectual freedom in the digital age.

 

Where is this Story Headed? Confounding and Clarifying Library Narratives through Autoethnography

 

Session Description:
What is autoethnography? Why is it valuable for librarians as a research method? What happens when the study is over? Contributors to a recent book dealing with these questions share perspectives on autoethnography as a research method for librarians. Find out how the experience of participating in an autoethnographic exploration ended up recasting our own narratives of our roles as librarians, and how to link your narrative to larger scholarly conversations in librarianship.

 

The Stories We Tell and Sell: Instruction, Assessment, and Other Epic Tales

 

Session Description:
You’ve conducted your assessments, you have some data… What next? Does the assessment narrative tell the story you want to share? As ACRL Assessment in Action project coordinators from two institutions, we chronicle how our projects and the Framework for Information Literacy served as launching points for further development of student learning outcomes and assessment, and changed how we talk about our teaching. We share how our work helped us communicate across our campuses and what we learned through telling our stories. Bring your own instruction and assessment tales and create new narratives.