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Assessment of a Broad-based CCC "Get It Now" Program Implementation
2:10 PM
Northpointe 1
Kevin Messner (Miami University)
We conducted a year-long pilot of the Copyright Clearance Center’s “Get It
Now” rapid document delivery program. Get It Now is intended to supplement
traditional library journal collections by providing rapid on-request electronic
access to a deep body of journal literature, for a per article charge which is
absorbed by the library. Our pilot project provided the service to all
constituencies within our university community: undergraduate, graduate
student, staff and faculty. This differs from many implementations which are
limited to certain populations e.g. faculty-only. With a full year of data, we
assess whether this broad availability of service is sustainable financially with
current resources; whether it makes sense from a collections development
standpoint; who the major users are when the service is available to all; and
what subject areas the requested articles predominate. Our general
experience in setting up and managing the service is discussed.
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Cultivating Leadership Through Continuous Improvement and Influence
2:10 PM
Dogwood 4
Marcy Simons (University of Notre Dame)
In our academic library we recognized a gap in available opportunities for
developing leadership potential. The university sponsors programs for those
who are already in leadership positions, but there are no formal programs for
either those who are interested in leadership roles or for developing those
individuals with skills that allow them to be influencers at any level of the
organization. In 2014 we created a Leadership Development Program for
individual contributors who were selected by our senior leadership as having
potential to develop skills that will allow us to meet our organizational goals.
This program will share the details of the framework, process, expectations
and outcomes from our first cohort.
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No Space for a Traditional Place: Embracing Special Collections to Support
Curriculum Materials Center Resources and the Research Process
2:10 PM
Birch 2
Deidra N. Herring (Ohio State University)
It is well known that Curriculum Materials Centers (CMCs) have been a strong
resource for teacher education programs for many years, but have been
dismantled due to space, budgets, and technology trends. Like many
institutions, the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State
University elected to go a different direction and replace its CMC with a
technology center. This required the Education Subject Librarian to re-evaluate
the Library’s current collections and rally for a fresh approach to building and
promoting CMC resources on the Main Campus.
The Education Librarian partnered with Special Collections to create an exhibit
for the Highlights for Children magazine. While working with archival
materials, the opportunity generated new ideas for collaborating with
archives, instruction for preservice teachers and how they might use
periodicals in the classroom, and promoting collections for faculty researchers
whose topic of interest explore children’s literature. This process will be
shared with participants.
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One Shot at Success? Assessing the Effectiveness of Single Session Instruction
on Student Attainment of Information Literacy Skills
2:10 PM
Birch 1
Thomas Hyland (Lakeland Community College)
We undertook an ACRL Assessment in Action (AiA) project to add quantitative
data about the effectiveness of our instruction to the anecdotal evidence we
already had.
Our AiA project compared student performance on an annotated bibliography
assignment given across 12 sections of Composition 1A. Our study is unique
because it had both test and control groups. Students in the test group had
librarian-led, face-to-face, single-session information literacy instruction (ILI)
timed to coincide with and address the assignment. Students in the control
group did not have ILI in preparation for the assignment. The results show that
the ILI had a statistically significant impact on student success with the
assignment.
Though our findings supported our hypothesis, they were not without
complications. This presentation will what explore we found out and explain
what we changed as a result of our project.
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Reap what you sow: Connecting library service data to university learning
outcomes
2:10 PM
Northepointe 4
Mandy Shannon, Sue Polanka, Phil Flynn & Jason Lipiec (Wright State
University)
A library’s assessment team collaborated with a web developer to create a
web-based program for recording all activities completed by 25+ staff and
students in the reference and instruction department. The product was
designed to enhance the department’s ability to easily respond to questions of
whether and how the library contributed to student success and university
learning outcomes. This program is now the single reporting form used by the
department to capture all interactions. As a result, the need for staff to submit
monthly reports has been eliminated and the number of forms used by the
department has been reduced from three separate forms to one.
The librarians and web developer will focus on the project from idea
generation to product development and implementation. Additionally, they
will address how they plan to use the reporting features to position their
library for future discussions with campus stakeholders.
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Students on the Research Help Front Line: Cultivating Workplace
Professionalism and Interdisciplinary Teamwork
2:10 PM
Dogwood 1
Elys Kettling Law (College of Wooster)
In order to increase the flexibility of our college librarians to schedule library
instruction and extended research consultations in their subject liaison areas
throughout the course of a workday, the Libraries have completed a two year
pilot program in which the Research Help Desk is staffed exclusively by trained
student assistants for all open hours, under the supervision of the Research &
Information Services Librarian.
In this pilot program, trained Research Help Student Assistants respond
directly to all walk-up, online, and phone queries received during their shifts,
making referrals to available subject librarians and co-located campus centers,
as needed. This presentation will discuss the challenges and successes in
cultivating an effective, knowledgeable, and consistently professional
presence at the Research Help Desk, when it is staffed by individual
undergraduate students, first years through seniors, from diverse
backgrounds, pursuing a variety of majors.
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The Qualities of a Truly Sustainable Technical Staff in the 21st Century
2:10 PM
Hickory
Selina Wang (Oberlin College)
There is an increasing number of buzz words surrounding everything we do.
Some popular terms from more than 15 years ago, such as TEI, OAI, XML and
XSLT, have continued to evolve, while newer concepts, such as RDF, and of
course, LINKED DATA, have been ringing in our ears wherever we go in the
library world. What are they? Why are they so important? How do we
upgrade our skills to accommodate these changes? Let's talk!