Presented by:

• Alys Jordan, Head of Research, Instruction, & Outreach Services, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Session Description:
As novice and mid-career librarians transition in their careers, how can they navigate the terrain of library culture, tenure, promotion, publishing, leadership, and networking? Mentoring. What are librarians’ experiences in formal mentoring relationships? This presentation will explore the mentoring relationship and how what we know can be synthesized to address librarians’ professional impact.

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Presented by:

• Jessica Olin,Director of the Parker Library, Wesley College
• Joe Hardenbrook, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Carroll University Library

Session Description:
Learn how to design and conduct a kindness audit, a low-cost and high-reward assessment method that helps librarians examine barriers to library services and spaces through a user experience lens. Varying methods for kindness audits, lessons learned, and suggestions for identifying and implementing low-cost improvements for library spaces and services, will all be discussed.

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Presented by:

• Paul Fehrmann, Librarian, Kent State University
• Michael Hawkins, Librarian, Kent State University

Session Description:
Systematic review methods (SRM) offer possibilities for increasing the rigor of and confidence in “reviews of the literature”. SRM have been widely adopted in the health and social sciences. Learn about SRM, about SRM in the humanities, and about resources and a specific SRM framework for humanities research that might be adapted for library instruction, research consultation, personal research, or for librarian use as a member of a research team.

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Presented by:

• Angela Boyd,Reference Services Librarian, UC Santa Barbara
• Yolanda Blue, Special Collections Librarian, UC Santa Barbara

Session Description:
Create a diverse library community! Learn about the research project that two academic librarians embarked upon which is now informing librarians and administrators about the best practices in starting and improving such programs across the nation. Discover how library residency programs can play an integral part in the recruitment, retention and diversity initiatives in the profession.

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Presented by:

• Abigail Stambach, Coordinator of Reference Services, The Sage Colleges
• Lauren Puzier, Reference & Cataloging Librarian, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

Session Description:
This poster session will demonstrate ways Pinterest (interest boards), Smore (flyer design), Doodle (online scheduling), Piktochart (infographics) and Bunkr (online presentations) can be utilized by librarians to take the lead on campus with the latest technology and connect the library with the campus community.

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Presented by:

• Paige Mano, Academic Librarian – Social Media Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
• Melissa Olson, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
• Anne Rasmussen, Continuing Resources and Copyright Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
• Heather Spencer, Access Services Technology Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Session Description:
Has your library’s community outreach become stagnant? This university library took a leap of faith and applied for an NEA Big Read grant–and the results were beyond what they could have ever imagined. Learn how to promote leadership, get out of your comfort zone, and build sustainable relationships across communities–faculty, staff, and students, local businesses and organizations, and even within the library–that help patrons engage with the library more than ever before.

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