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Universities located in urban areas are partnering with neighboring communities to have an impact on middle and high school students’ pathway to higher education. The presenters will share their experience collaborating on local initiatives and programs which introduce students to the college library, both as an academic support and as a potential job and career opportunity. Attendees will learn how to connect with socially beneficial services and discuss how engagement with community programs might serve as a pipeline for bringing under-served populations into the library profession.

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In this session, panelists (an instructional design librarian, a subject librarian, and a writing program administrator) will discuss how they partnered to develop course-embedded learning modules for a new online first year writing course. Project goals included creating content that was embedded within the course’s writing units and avoided participating in the banking model of instruction. Panelists will talk about the technical aspects of building the modules, including their experience with Articulates Rise and Storyline and Adobe Captivate, how they set accessibility and universal design priorities and met the university’s standards for WCAG2.0 accessibility.

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Integrated planning and advising services (IPAS), early alert, and engagement systems have proliferated in recent years as institutions adopt a unified approach to promoting and documenting student success. How do libraries fit into this picture? Can such systems connect students more easily with information literacy and reference support? Increase the impact of the library on student learning? Improve collaboration with other support services? Join a lively panel discussion about the benefits, challenges, best practices, and the “state of the art” of using campus data systems to connect students and librarians in support of student learning and success.

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To provide inclusive creative spaces, librarians must listen to the motivations and desires of untapped creators. This panel features four women creators recasting the gendered narrative of maker culture, sharing their experiences and motivations. Attendees will hear the stories of an undergraduate filmmaker confronting racism in her documentaries, an artist navigating the androcentric world of 3D-printing to construct an extremely complex 3-D printed dress, a student employee of a library makerspace encouraging high school juniors and seniors to pursue a degree in engineering, and a professor who co-founded a local makerspace and directs an entrepreneurial leadership center.

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An MLIS represents more than the credentials needed to become a librarian. It is also the point of entry into the profession, in which students learn the values, expectations, and culture of librarianship. This panel explores the current and future state of the MLIS from the perspective of four academic librarians who teach in MLIS programs. Topics include systems of power and the impact on adjuncts, intersections between adjunct teaching and librarianship, and the opportunities and challenges of the MLIS degree. Panelists will apply a critical lens to the discussion, with a focus on intersections with academic librarianship.

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Panelists will discuss the way concepts from disciplines such as neuroscience, cognitive architecture, and environmental psychology and methods such as environmental autobiography and walking interviews can be used in the assessment of library spaces. They will focus on how these concepts and methods are used to discover how to encourage patrons to create new narratives and develop attachments within our spaces that help them accomplish their tasks. Panelists will present the research behind key methods and discuss how these can be integrated into practical methods to assess and design space. Applicable to all project types and academic library sizes.

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There is a vital role for libraries to lead the way in open, community-run dissemination and preservation of the scholarly record and educational materials. This panel will introduce advocacy practices to make openness a priority at your institution, through educational resources, ongoing research, and archived research. Panelists will discuss how they practice openness as a core part of their work and present concrete ideas about how to integrate openness into practice as both LIS professionals and service providers. Attendees will leave with practical strategies and renewed confidence as openness advocates at their institutions and in the LIS field.

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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and Counting Opinions invite you to attend the ACRLMetrics User Group Meeting and demonstration at the ACRL Conference in Cleveland. Discover how you can make your ACRL data work for you and your library. ACRLMetrics contains historical NCES and ACRL data as well as on-board template reports along with robust capabilities for producing comprehensive, benchmarking and custom, localized reports. This session will include a demonstration of how to: create real-time benchmarking reports using customized peer groups; deliver real-time trend analysis; generate customized reports that can be saved, re-purposed and shared as desired

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Learn about the new research being conducted by recipients of the 2018-19 Academic Library Impact Research Grants. These projects emerged from ACRL’s 2017 report, Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research. The report suggested six priority areas for research to advance the field and communicate library contributions to student learning and success. In this session the teams will each briefly share how they designed their projects, progress they have made to date, and early findings.

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This panel consists of four librarians from different types of libraries: four-year colleges, and a university. Each librarian brings authentic perspectives on addressing the needs of diverse multilingual populations. Many international students are unaccustomed to American libraries which lend books for free and provide information literacy instruction. As they learn about these resources, they become more comfortable using them. English learners who have had some or most of their education in the U.S. might not be familiar with libraries or may have limited experience with their services. Communicating effectively with these populations will facilitate their understanding, and use, of American libraries.