ACRL 2015 Creating Sustainable Community by Suzanne Bernsten

ACRL 2015

bernss — 2015-03-30 16:38:45 UTC

Conference Schedule bit.ly/1Cr9sgo Provides access to all sessions and handouts.

Poster Sessions bit.ly/1Cr9BAE Roundtable Discussions bit.ly/1Cr9JQG

Proceedings - Formal Papers www.ala.org/acrl/acrl/conferences/acrl2015/papers

Reading

bernss — 2015-03-30 16:43:16 UTC

There were quite a few sessions about encouraging students to read for pleasure and how to help students who lack the skills to read the articles they find. I think many of us have faced this issue in working with students at the Reference Desk.

Blurred Lines: Tying Recreational Reading to Research in an Academic Library bit.ly/1Cr8Rvi
They've Found It. Can They Read It? Adding Academic Reading Strategies to Your IL Toolkit bit.ly/1Cr929O

OERs

bernss — 2015-03-30 16:45:06 UTC

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend any of the sessions on OERs, but there were many so I wanted to share them here to read about later.

Open Textbooks and OERs: Librarians as Engaged Partners in Campus Initiatives bit.ly/1Cr8qBc
Alternative Texts: Creating, Maintaining, and Supporting an Open Access Textbook Project on Your Campus bit.ly/1Cr81Pc
Open Expansion: Connecting the Open Access, Open Data and OER Dots bit.ly/1Cr8ctY
Assessing Faculty Perceptions and Use of OERs bit.ly/1Cr8eSw

Access Services

bernss — 2015-04-08 16:12:56 UTC

There were many workshops focusing on space in libraries and on student employees. Here are two that I thought were particularly good.

Unleash Your Library's HIPster: Transforming Student Library Jobs into High-Impact Practices bit.ly/1Cr4Y9D
Inspired Spaces Or Home Away from Home? Academic Affordances of Peace, Quite, Comfort, and Technology in the Library bit.ly/1Cr5hBv

Reference

bernss — 2015-04-08 16:13:00 UTC

An interesting idea for training reference staff created by an MSU librarian.

Reference Interview Adventure: Creating a Choose Your Own Adventure Game that Teaches the Reference Interview staff.lib.msu.edu/marcyk/cyoa

There were a lot of posters and discussions about training students to be peer research advisors (like the peer writing assistants) and about reference outreach, moving beyond waiting for students/faculty to find us at the Reference Desk by reaching out to groups of students and faculty through individual consultations and targeting certain groups such as honors students or students presenting their research on campus.

Innovative Reference Services in College and Research Libraries bit.ly/1Cr5rIZ
Reference Resilience: Balancing Sustainability with Customize and Effective Research Support Search http://s4.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2015/profile.cfm?profile_name=download&Handout_key=43638B63-F428-44F4-AC7C-29E552E0141D&xtemplate=1
Not Counting What Counts: The Perplexing Inattention to Research Consultations in Library Assessment Activities bit.ly/1Cr5Hry

Technical Services

bernss — 2015-04-08 16:13:04 UTC

From Problem Solvers to Solution Creators: Shifting Roles of Technical Services bit.ly/1Cr3yvZ
License to ILL: Interlibrary Loan and Course Reserve Services Support the University Mission to Reduce Costs for Students through Interdepartmental Collaboration and Innovation bit.ly/1Cr4Mr6

Instruction

bernss — 2015-04-08 16:13:47 UTC

Moving away from the one shot instruction session by enabling faculty to be partners in information literacy.

Keene Info Lit Bank infolit.keene.edu
LEAP Rubrics and Information Literacy Assessment: We Think You Need a Chaser with that One-Shot bit.ly/1Cr2CHN

Teaching students critical thinking skills and the evaluation of sources.

Know Your Sources www.pcc.edu/library/know-your-sources
Evaluating Sources Rhetorically bit.ly/1CqQsim
Assign Students to Search by Author in OneSearch to Understand Scholarly Conversation and Authority bit.ly/1CqWuj1

Library assignment integrated into course content.

Promoting Transferable Research Skills: A New Take on English Composition Assessment bit.ly/1CqYuHZ and bit.ly/1CqYzvg

Learning outcomes, instruction activities, and assessment of threshold concepts.

Threshold Concepts Workshop guides.library.unlv.edu/threshold

Assessment of information literacy using student papers.

Rethinking an Established Information Literacy Program bit.ly/1CqZjQS
Slow Assessment Movement: Using Homegrown Rubrics and Capstone Projects for DIY Information Literacy Assessment bit.ly/1Cr0nUY
Writing Rubrics Right: Avoiding Common Errors meganoakleaf.info/writingrubricsright.pdf

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Edventure: Creating Interactive and Scalable Orientation Activities with EdventureBuilderwww.slideshare.net/liafriedman/acrl-techconnect-presentation

Use of technology in library instruction

High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech in Library Instruction https://highlowno.wordpress.com/

Web

bernss — 2015-04-08 17:06:01 UTC

There were not a lot of sessions focused on library websites but here were two interesting ideas for using the web to evaluate a discovery tool and the impact of library instruction on student learning.

Searching in the Wild: Observing Information-Seeking Behavior in a Discovery Tool bit.ly/1Cr7ahs
Screencast Impact: using student screencasts to observe the impact of one-shot library orientations bit.ly/1Cr7hJW

Communication and Outreach

bernss — 2015-04-08 17:07:05 UTC

Successful Student Advisory Boards: Best Practices bit.ly/1Crdaqz
Bed Bugs and Other Bad News: An Opportunity for Media and Public Relations bit.ly/1CrcSA0

Department

bernss — 2015-04-08 17:35:05 UTC

Lansing Community College Library participated in this survey about assessment throughout the Library. Community colleges performed higher on a number of measures compared with 4 year colleges.

Community College Libraries and a Culture of Assessment bit.ly/1H8o2A2

Ideas for Assessing the Library

Measuring the Success of a 21st Century Center for Learning bit.ly/1CrbDAS
Student Centered Libraries: Using Ethnographic Techniques in a Community College Setting http://s4.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2015/profile.cfm?profile_name=download&Handout_key=CCA9CE65-99E6-4BD6-B455-1647135833B8&xtemplate=1

Collaboration was a prominent theme at the conference. Collaboration was discussed among partners across campus including faculty development centers, instructional technologists, and student services.

There was even a workshop about collaboration between two and four year colleges to help transfer students.

Faculty Development Centers & Libraries: United We Stand, Divided We Fall bit.ly/1CqP3bl and podnetwork.org
Librarians, Instructional Technologists, and Faculty: A Collaborative Partnership for Teaching Information Literacy and Technological Competancy bit.ly/1CqPfHG
Librarians Collaborate! Working across Two- and Four-Year Institutions to Teach Transfer Students Information Literacy Skills bit.ly/1CqPIK5

Group Discussion @ Department Meeting on Friday, April 24

2015-04-27 13:57:46 UTC

High Impact Educational Practices were discussed in sessions throughout the conference and they might be a way for us to prioritize our goals and projects.

High-Impact Educational Practices www.aacu.org/leap/hips
Libraries and Student Success: Campus Collaboration with High Impact Educational Practices bit.ly/1Cr36xI

How can LCC Library support High-Impact Educational Practices?

First-Year Seminars

* Build on our relationship with SDEV 101

Common Intellectual Experiences

* One Book One LCC

Learning Communities

* Paired reading courses, WRIT 117/WRIT 121 course

Writing-Intensive Courses

Collaborative Assignments and Projects

* Emphasize the Library space as a place for collaboration

Undergraduate Research

* Work with students presenting at StarScapes

Diversity/Global Learning

* Partner with the Centre on the annual plan for programming

* One Book One LCC allows students who might not attend programs outside of

class to be exposed to new ideas in class through reading/discussion

Service Learning, Community-Based Learning

Internships

* Get interns to help with computer, communications, social media

Capstone Courses and Projects

* Partner with campus Honors programs