ACRL 2015 wrap up points

1. ACRL 2015 – Wrap Up
THINGS TO SHARE
LAKSAMEE PUTNAM

2. Reflective Practices: Library Study
Spaces in Support of Learning
 Link to the paper
 Mental Fatigue
 Environmental Psychology
 Restorative
 Coherence (way finding)
 Compatibility (matching goals)
 Being away (removal from distractions)
 Fascination (white noise, not attention grabbing)

3. Reflective Practices: Library Study
Spaces in Support of Learning
 Four types of view studied
 1. a window view of natural greenery (Green View)
 2. a window view of buildings (Built View)
 3. an interior space with green plants (Plant View)
 4. an interior space with no window and no plants (No View)
 “… maximizing window views of natural spaces may be one of the more universal and successful
design principles to use in academic libraries. While students disagree on what type of furniture
they find comfortable, whether or not they want books or other people around them, and what
types of tables work best for them, they may just agree on the fact that views of nature are
restorative, preferred, and compatible with their study goals.”

4. Keynote – Jad Abumrad
 Gut churn – Ira Glass on The Gap
 Chasing the antelope
 Pot Odds – 40% certainty
 Mantis Shrimp rainbow choir
 Adjacent possible

5. Searching for Girls: Identity in the Age
of Google
 Safiya Noble
 Pew Research Center – Search Engine Use
 Social Construction of Technology
 Technology is a social construction, embedded with social and political values
 Google does not belong to the people
 Threat to democracy
 What search engines say about women