Academic Librarian Lightning Round! Innovative New Roles

Welcome to theACRL ULS / CLSLightning Rounds

Allison Leaming
ULS / CLS Lightning Rounds

ADifferent Kind of Liaison Experience: Career Research in the Academic Library Setting
Allison Leaming
Business Liaison LibrarianArizona State University Libraries

Positive attitude
Certain of values and interests
Connection to future career path

Indecisive
Lacking insight
Unable to communicate career goals

Emotions play an important role in the career decision-making process.

Managing
Emotions
Using
Emotions
Emotional Intelligence

EI
Confidence
=

Self exploration uncovers…

Making

Career
Researchers

Sources
Brown, C., George-Curran, R. & Smith, M.L. (2003). The role of emotional intelligence in the career commitment and decision-making process. Journal of Career Assessment, 11 (4), 379-392.
Emmerling, R. & Cherniss, C. (2003). Emotional Intelligence and the Career Choice Process. Journal of Career Assessment, 11 (2), 153-167.
Mayer & Salovey (1997) What is Emotional Intelligence? In P. Salovey and D. Sluyter (Eds.), Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence; Implications for Educators (pp. 3-34) New York: Basic Books.
Puffer, K. (2009) Emotional Intelligence as a Salient Predictor for Collegians’ Career Decision Making. Journal of Career Assessment, 19 (2), 130-150.

Angiah Davis

Angiah L. Davis, Reference Librarian
Information & Research Services Department
Yes, We Deliver!: Library Outreach Services Across the Atlanta University Center

Information & Research Service Librarians

AUC Fast Facts
One library
Serves four Historically Black Colleges and University
Student FTE: 8,651
Faculty FTE: 661
World’s largest and oldest consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Member Institutions

Why Outreach Services?
Not every student will come to the library
Location unknown
No time
Promote Library Services
To build relationships with faculty staff and students

Librarians on the Go

We’re Not in Woodruff Anymore!

Library Orientation

Graduate Student Research Fair

Student Center

Residence Hall

Special Programs

Future Services
Athletes
Band

Selected Readings
Courtney, N. (2009). Academic library outreach: Beyond the campus walls. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
Cummings, L. U. (2007). Bursting out of the box: Outreach to the millennial generation through student services programs. Reference Services Review, 35, 2, 285-295.
Fortson, M., Sahib, J. & Spencer, B. (2011). Step right up to the library! The Week of Welcome carnival at the University of Alabama Libraries. College & Research Libraries News, 72, 6, 350-352.

Selected Readings
Kelsey, P., & Kelsey, S. (2003). Outreach services in academic and special libraries. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press.
Smallwood, C. (2010). Librarians as community partners: An outreach handbook. Chicago: American Library Association.
Woodward, J. A. (2009). Creating the customer-driven academic library. Chicago: American Library Association.

Contact Information
Angiah Davis
Reference Librarian
adavis@auctr.edu

Diane VanderPol

A Passage to India… and beyond!
Diane VanderPol
Westminster College

Westminster College - Campus scenes

Writing & other Communication skills
Leadership & Teamwork
Creativity & Reflection

Critical, analytical & integrative thinking

Global consciousness, social responsibility & ethical awareness

Westminster & Wai:
a library and literacy project
G.G. Jadhav Library
With the staff of the G.G. Jadhav Library

G.G. Jadhav Library Children’s area
The Library building is the former home of the founder- donated to the community.

Dr. Ashokrao Joshi is the CEO of a Salt Lake City tech firm with family from the village of Wai.
He’s so well thought of in the village that a local school had billboards made to honor him on his birthday.

Teachers
School Building &
Classroom

The village is full of examples of both richness and poverty.
There is no state financial support for public or school libraries.

The staff and volunteers at the Jadhav Library & their families have become great friends.

Harry Potter in Marathi
The G.G. Jadhav Library has about 2000 children’s books- we’re helping to build that collection.

Students held a benefit dinner with silent auction, a bake sale and a used book sale in the library with donated items that were not a good fit for our collection.

Roles
Professional Consultant on libraries
Teacher & Course developer
Travel agent/ logistics coordinator
Info & Communication Tech Support
Experienced Campus Administrator
Fundraiser
Resource procurer
Campus connector
Pharmacist
Storyteller
Friend
Mom
Researcher
Publicist
Master of Ceremonies

Lisa Lapointe

Adventures in Academic Advising
Lisa Lapointe
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Florida Southern College
llapointe@flsouthern.edu

Florida Southern, thee we love

Librarians are faculty, but…

We
Freshmen
How it started

Initial Reaction: Freak Out!
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Don’t Panic: Build a Support Network

Hey, I can do this!
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Have you tried this?
Tell me more about…
This feels familiar…

Librarian Advising Strength: Service Philosophy
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Librarian Advising Strength: Schedule Flexibility
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Librarian Advising Strength: Lack of Turf
Image Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Azimuthal equidistant projection centered on Kinshasa, 4018'S., 15018'E. 7-69. Washington, 1969. Map. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3201b.ct002666 [accessed June 17, 2011].

Librarian Advising Strength: Connecting Students with Resources
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Advising Challenges: Learning Curricular Requirements & Process
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Advising Challenges: Space & Privacy

Benefit to Librarian: Community Integration
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Benefit to Library: Advising reference point
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Benefit to Students:Individual Support
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Overall a positive experience
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References
Studdard, Paul. 2000. Academic librarians as advisors: working with students to plan their futures. College & Research Libraries News 61, no. 9 [October]: 781-2, 792.
Young, Courtney L. 2008. Incorporating Undergraduate Advising in Teaching Information Literacy: Case Study for Academic Librarians as Advisors. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 2 [March]: 139-144.

Michelle Demeter

Keeping it All Together: Life as an Academic Partnership Librarian
Michelle Demeter
The Florida State University

Conan the Librarian

Left wanting more… information?
Michelle Demeter
Florida State University
mdemeter@fsu.edu
850.645.2707

Rachel Besara

But Who Answers the Library’s Questions?
The Assessment Librarian’s Role

Assessment Answers Questions About…
Libraries’ Users
Internal Processes
Larger Academic Community

Libraries’ Users

Internal Processes

Larger Academic Community

Statistics

Survey Coordination

But That’s Not All…

The Assessment Librarian’s Role

Rachel Besara
Assessment Librarian
Florida State University Libraries
rbesara@fsu.edu

Susan Smith

From Department Director to Race Director
Susan Sharpless Smith
Z. Smith Reynolds Library/Wake Forest University
ULS/CLS Program, ALA Annual New Orleans
June 25, 2011

Who We Are and Why a Race?

Building Relationships & Partnerships Through Planning

Developing New Skills & Leveraging Current Ones

Fostering Community

Beyond the Finish Line?

Tara Schmidt

Librarians as
First Year Instructors
Tara Schmidt, Research Services, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Fall Enrollment = 25,794 Undergraduates
First Time Freshmen = 5,095

Freshman Seminar = Connection

Components of a Freshman Seminar Course

The librarian perspective on students…

Course Objectives
“efficiently locate resources”
“Information literacy skills “
“evaluate sources and search processes “
“determine which sources are most credible and relevant for the information need”
“use information in an ethical and legal manner”
“effectively use information “

What we learned from
a faculty perspective

So where do our faculty see the library fitting into the freshman experience?

We gained a whole new perspective on the needs of our students

Prioritizing the needs of students navigating college for the first time

Figuring out the library’s place in the academic routine

What did we really give our students?
What they needed ≠
What we thought they needed

When we asked our students to demonstrate what they learned…

Time to take another look at the course objectives

Biggest impact?
“Time management assignment helped because I never really thought about my day before I wrote it down”
“Organization has kept me up with my other classes”
“I TRIED to start studying 3 hours a day”
“The research part helped in Writing Composition a lot.”
“The research! The time management! And the library resources. So many!”
“Stuff on personality/learning styles”

Figuring out where the library fits for our new freshmen

Learning from our mistakes
Designing a new class for the fall

Freshman Seminar = Connection

Library = Place
Library = Services
Library = When students need us

Eric A. Kidwell

I Am Librarian, Hear Me Roar
Eric A. Kidwell
Director of the Library & Professor
Huntingdon College
2011 American Library Association Annual Conference/ New Orleans
ACRL CLS/ULS Academic Librarian Lightning Round! Innovative New Roles

I am LIBRARIAN, hear me roarIn numbers too big to ignoreAnd I know too much to go back an' pretend'cause I've heard it all beforeAnd I've been down there on the floorNo one's ever gonna keep me down again
Oh yes I am wise …

Caitlin Anne Bagley

Librarian As Writing Ambassador: Finding the Path from the Library to Knowledge
Caitlin A. Bagley
Murray State University

Waterfield Library
Murray State University is located in Murray, KY.
We are a midsize university with just above 10,000 FTE students.

Writing Across the Curriculum
Goal is to help students raise their writing skills, university wide across departments.
A Math Major should have the same writing skills as an English Major.

Library as Central Location
Waterfield Library hosts two main places for students to get help:
Racer Writing Center
Reference Desk

Racer Writing Center
The Writing Center is designed for one-on-one consultation.
Only 3-4 consultants at any time.

Reference Desk
Traditional roles also apply, but when students bring their papers to the desk, we encourage and help them with what we can before we pass them on to the Writing Center.

Mission
The library’s mission is to serve as the Intellectual Commons of the University.
WAC’s mission is to “believe that writing and writing instruction should occur across the university curriculum and throughout a student’s education.”
The two concepts work together seamlessly.

WAC Website
The library helped design the WAC website, and how they didn’t want to be reliant on Purdue OWL.
We first had initial debate over whether the site should be for students or faculty.

The Internet – The Great Equalizer?
We try to teach students to learn how to swim through the good & bad, taking only the good with them.
WAC is in the beginning stages of creating their own website.
Currently exists as a help link of style guides and writing examples.

First Semester Results
Number of clients: 154
Number of sessions: 377
Most students fell into one of the following three colleges:
Business
Humanities & Fine Arts
Science/Engineering/Technology

Second Semester Results
Number of clients: 170
Number of sessions: 412
Again, most students came from the Business school, and the College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Gains in all areas though.

Outreach
Spreading the word.
Physically, the RWC is a removed area of the library. We have to find ways of making it accessible and noticeable.
Mention in all Instruction Sessions
Handout bookmarks, pamphlets, etc.
Do your own publicity!

Embedded Librarianship
Publicity only works for so long.
Become close w/professors and be added into classes to become go to stops for help.
ENG 105 and HIS 400

ENG 105
Introductory writing course, mandatory for all students.
I try to speak to every section at least once.
Some sections I work with in-depth over the semester.

HIS 400
This is a combination undergraduate/graduate level course, and so the writing they are expected to turn in is at a higher level.
Traditionally, I would teach them research methods. Now I often combine writing techniques in with this.

LOR 101
Alongside, regular duties I teach a 3 CR research class with a heavy writing component. This enables me to see the tangible proof of students who actually use the service.

One on One Instruction
When a student comes to my office looking for help with a paper, we both read the paper together.
It is usually helpful to have the student read their paper out loud, word for word, omitting no typos or mistakes.

Oral Communication Center
Currently we are building an Oral Communication Center that we hope to pair with the RWC, in bringing students a better rounded out experience.

In Summary
Photo Courtesy U.S. National Archives Flickr stream, circa 1975
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727525216/in/photostream/

Questions? Comments?Caitlin A. Bagley: cbagley1@murraystate
Photo Courtesy of U.S. National Archives Flickr Stream, circa 1975
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727537268/in/photostream/

Dominique Turnbow

incorporating instructional design approaches into our work
Redefining Librarianship
Dominique Turnbow
dturnbow@ucsd.eduUC San Diego LibrariesMLIS & MA Educational Technology Candidate

Today
Moving instruction online
Faculty collaborations
Program Evaluations

Why instructional design?
A D D I E
Evaluation

ANALYSIS
Reflect
What worked well?
What activities did students enjoy? Where did students seem lost or confused?

ANALYSIS
Consider you audience
What do they want to learn?
Consider:
familiarity with libraries and research
comfort with technology
access to a computer
English language skills

ANALYSIS
Revisit or create an instruction goal
Goals are broad, but specific; should encompass all outcomes in the tutorial
EXAMPLE INSTRUCTION GOAL:
The learner will be able to use library resources to find three articles about a topic for a lab report.

DESIGN
Create ABCD learning objectives
A=audience
B=behavior
C=condition
D=degree
Moving Instruction Online
EXAMPLE OBJECTIVE:
Given access to PubMed and a topic, the learner will be able to find at least three articles for their lab report.

DESIGN
Clark’s Content-Performance Matrix (CPM)
Moving INSTRUCTION OnLINE
LEARN ABOUT CPM
Clark, Ruth C. (2009). Developing Technical Training: A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-Based Instructional Materials (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

DESIGN
How will learners stay motivated? Consult the ARCS model.
Attention
Retention
Confidence
Satisfaction
MOVING Instruction online
LEARN ABOUT ARCS
Keller, J. M. (1987a). Development and use of the ARCS model of motivational design. Journal of Instructional Development, 10(3), 2 – 10.
Keller, J. M. (1987b). Strategies for stimulating the motivation to learn. Performance & Instruction, 26(8), 1-7.
Keller, J. M. (1999). Motivation in cyber learning environments. Educational Technology International, 1(1), 7 – 30.

DEVELOPMENT
How will the instruction be delivered?
What platform(s) will you use to deliver content?
What kinds of activities do you want to build into the instruction?
Will you need to track student progress or completion?
Incorporate Richard Mayer’s Multimedia Learning Principles.
LEARN ABOUT MULIMEDIA LEARNING PRINCIPLES
Mayer, Richard E. (2009). Multimedia Learning (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

IMPLEMENTATION
Prototype and Testing
Content
Functionality – especially activities and assessments
Affective feedback
Support
How will you provide technical help to learners?
How can learners ask questions?

EVALUTATION: Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation
LEARN ABOUT KIRKPATRICK’S
4 LEVELS OF EVALUATION
Kirkpatrick, Donald L. and James D. Kirkpatrick (2005). Transferring learning to behavior: Using the four levels to improve performance. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers..

Revise or create new instruction
Example: If faculty provide students with an article to read about a topic, recommend that they also ask students to find and summarize an article with an opposing point of view.
Example: Recommend students include 3-5 sentences about how each source helped them understand the topic of their paperwith the bibliography.
Grade IL part of assignments or provide a rubric for TAs to use
Consider blended instruction
Teach low-level outcomes via video or tutorial (e.g. how to find a journal article using the catalog) and high-level ones in-person (e.g. search strategies).
Faculty Collaborations

Grants

CREATE AN EVALUATION PLAN
Description
Purpose of the Evaluation
Stakeholders
Limitations
Evaluation Questions & Issues
Questions & Procedures
Management Plan (aka Timeline)
Program evaluations
Description of Evaluation Plan sections: http://bit.ly/evaluationtemplate-acrluls2011
Example of an evaluation plan used at my institution:http://bit.ly/evaluationplan-acrluls2011

Program Evaluations
Dominique Turnbow, UC San Diego Libraries
dturnbow@ucsd.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dturnbow

Gregory Schmidt

Local History Research and Landscape Architecture Instruction: the Role of Special Collections and Archives
American Library Association - Annual Meeting 2011
Greg Schmidt, Special Collections and Archives Librarian
Jocelyn Zanzot, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Auburn University, Alabama

Landscape Architecture
Master of Landscape Architecture
Community-based Design
Diverse student body
Outreach components

Special Collections and Archives
Collection Strengths
Local and Regional History
Southern Architecture
Alabama Authors
Aviation History
Historic and unique maps
Outreach and Instruction
Historian’s Craft
Rare Books and Manuscripts

Special Collections and Archives Instruction
Archives Instruction
Discovering collections through the use of finding aids
Accessing and using rare materials
Incorporating special collections and archives use into research projects and assignments
Goal: Expand archival and special collections instruction beyond the traditional user groups

The future of any community is connected to its past. Community-based design practices benefit from research into their unique landscape history.

Shiloh Community and Auburn University Partnership
Collaborative Outreach & Scholarship Model
Community
Church
Universities
Businesses
Government
Shiloh Community Restoration Foundation, Inc.

Shiloh Rosenwald School in Notasulga AL is one of the original six schools in Macon County built in collaboration between Tuskegee University, the Rosenwald Fund and local community members

Archival Research + Field Studies
A crash course in Black Belt history and culture

Special Collections Instruction
As envisioned by the Librarian
Archival discovery & access
Reference and technology
Collections highlights

Special Collections Instruction
As driven by students
General library instruction
Discovering published works
Access and Services
Assignment-oriented instruction
Maps
Building Plans

Post-Instruction feedback
Graduate Classes and Seminar-style Instruction
Student-driven
Project-oriented
Special Collections and Archives Materials
Ease of Access is critical
Technology Demands
Scanning
GIS

Instruction Outcomes
From the student perspective
Print and Digital Resource
Discovery
Familiarity with an Additional
Library Service Point
Resources for Graded Project

Landscape cues in the Archives
Interested in learning more about Landscape Use in Rosenwald Schools via George Washington Carver and Tuskegee
Teaching gardens, farm plots,
sports fields and other
recreational spaces…

Historic and Rare Maps
Supporting the goals of comprehensive Landscape Design

Student Output – Design Proposal to Restore Prairie

Engaging history to envision new futures
The Old Federal Road Through Alabama

Landscape, Art and Archives
History and Future of Interpreting the Alabama Landscape

From expanding access to growing the collections…
Photos of Historic Architecture
Contemporary Art of the Old Federal Road
Maps and documents

Conclusions….
Engagement  Instruction  Collaboration  Growth

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