Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

Moving Beyond Bibliographic Instruction: True Writing Program/Library Partnerships

Posted Wed, 01/16/2013 - 3:55pm by pfrade

In the last three years the Marriott Library has moved from providing standard research skills instruction for first-year writing students to a true partnership with the University Writing Program. The effort started with the Visual, Information, Technology Literacy initiative that was a collaboration between librarians and faculty across campus. Since the Writing Program was a logical starting point for integrating VITL elements into the curriculum, the Education Services librarians started working with individual instructors to collaborate on assignments. That led to the hiring of a Ph.D. student in English who worked in the library for an academic year and wrote a chapter in the current first-year writing textbook. Along the way, the librarian coordinator for F-Y writing also contributed a chapter and created an elaborate series of online tutorials guiding students through the research process.

Presenter:

Date: 
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
Cascade C

Tenure in Utah: The Challenges for Librarians

Posted Tue, 01/01/2013 - 9:31pm by Admin

Across Utah librarians and archivists in academic intuitions are often given faculty status requiring them to participate in a campus-wide promotion and rank advancement process.  In this session panelists will discuss the challenges, benefits, and disadvantages librarians and archivists face by having or not having faculty status.

 

Presenters:

Daniel Davis, Associate Librarian at Utah State University

Sarah Langsdon, Associate Curator of Special Collections at Weber State University

Julie Williamsen, Librarian at Brigham Young University

Alison Regan, Associate Librarian and Head of Scholarship and Education Services at the University of Utah

Date: 
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
Cascade A

Continual Improvement: A Unique Method for Assessing Library Departments

Posted Fri, 12/28/2012 - 1:33pm by Admin

Many libraries across the country are concerned with demonstrating the value of the services they provide and desire continual improvement and review to determine if they are working efficiently, meeting patron needs and are prepared for the future.  The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University uses a unique method to evaluate their library departments and units, which employs a team of representatives from different areas of the library and an outside consultant.  Our program will review this unique process of evaluation, overall results, and provide recommendations for incorporating similar evaluation programs in other libraries.

 

Presenters:

Allyson Washburn, Brigham Young University
Allen Arnoldsen, Brigham Young University
Lety Camacho, Brigham Young University
Catherine Soehner, University of Utah

Date: 
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: 
Cascade E

Librarians as Educators: Essential Tools and Tips

Posted Fri, 12/28/2012 - 11:34am by Admin

 


As Libraries become increasingly dynamic and socially active gathering places, the roles of librarians are becoming more and more aligned with the roles of teachers and educators. Skills like classroom management, lesson planning, and Inquiry-based Learning are increasingly relevant concepts for librarians to learn and use in their libraries. In this program, librarian and educator Casey Landau will share her favorite pedagogical tools she learned while teaching in schools, museums, and libraries.

Presenter:

Casey Landau, Broadview Entertainment Arts University

Date: 
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: 
Cascade B

Let's get Digital!: Best practices in building digital collections for your community, by your community

Posted Fri, 12/28/2012 - 11:31am by Admin

Digitize it and they will come…  Or not.  Digitizing primary source material is much more than simply scanning  documents.   Let’s discuss some methods for getting donor and community supplied metadata that allows your community to “tell its story” and keeps you from having the vague “Two men on a road” type of metadata in your digital library.  And who knows?  You might just end up promoting your digital library and  garnering a little bit of community enthusiasm along the way.

Presenters:

Alison Regan, Associate Librarian and Head of Scholarship and Education Services at the University of Utah

Amy Brunvald, University of Utah

Polly Stewart

Jennifer Bott

Liz Woolcott, Utah State University

Andrea Payant, Utah State University

Paul Daybell, Utah State University

Becky Skeen, Utah State University

Date: 
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: 
Cascade A

Open Access Legislation and Policies

Posted Wed, 12/19/2012 - 4:20pm by pfrade

An Institutional Open Access Policy: how we did it, and how you can do it too

In early 2012 the Merrill-Cazier Library began working with the USU Faculty Senate to draft an open access policy. It was designed to assist employees in protecting their copyrights as well as to ensure broader access to and distribution of research happening at USU. The policy went into effect in May 2012 and was introduced to the USU community at-large through a series of departmental presentations in the early weeks of the fall semester. In this presentation, we will discuss the process of designing and implementing such a policy as well as highlight the many new and varied resources related to open access that are now available.

Presenters:

Becky Thoms, Utah State University

Andrew Wesolek, Utah State University

Open Access Legislation and Policies

Date: 
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: 
Soldier Creek

Library Collections for Sustainability

Posted Wed, 12/19/2012 - 3:07pm by pfrade

In May, 2012 the University of Utah Marriott Library received grant funding from the Chevron Corporation to conduct an audit of the Library’s collection development policies as they relate to sustainability. From these monies the Marriott Library Sustainability Working Group formed to compile a collection development report, which details the current status of the Marriott Library’s and the University of Utah’s sustainability resources and programs.  The emerging field of Sustainability Studies/Science is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, cutting across organizational boundaries at the University, and also engaging local governments and members of the community.

Presenters:

Amy Brunvald, University of Utah

Joshua Lenart, University of Utah

Emily Bullough, University of Utah

Jessica Breiman, University of Utah

Handouts:

Sustainability Collection Development Policy Report.pdf
Sustainability Core Journals List.xlsx
Sustainability Core Reading List.rtf
Collections for Sustainability.pptx

Date: 
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 
Battle Creek

Why your digital collections can't be found in Google: Search Engine Optimization for digital repositories

Posted Wed, 01/11/2012 - 12:27pm by Admin

Academic and public libraries have spent more than a decade and a mountain of funding to digitize special and other collections, and we have fully expected those collections to appear in Internet search engine indexes.  Recent research conducted at the University of Utah shows that the search engine indexing ratio of these collections is surprisingly low.  Please join the presenters, Kenning Arlitsch and Patrick O'Brien for a fascinating look into this complex issue and what you can do about it.  The problems are both technical and administrative, and the presenters have been very successful in increasing the indexing ratio with collections at Utah.

 

Presenters:

Kenning Arlitsch, University of Utah

Patrick O'Brien, University of Utah

Handouts:

Date: 
Fri, 04/27/2012 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: 
Ballroom A

Informing Innovation at Home and at a Distance

Posted Wed, 01/04/2012 - 10:41am by pfrade

This program will describe the process of adapting and revising two published surveys to gain information about our library patrons locally and at distance sites. Based on Char Booth’s Informing Innovation survey at Ohio State and the ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, we will discuss the process of developing an environmental scan to learn more about the needs and habits of our distance education students and students at the main campus taking online courses. We will discuss the results of the survey and how we are using this information to inform our web services, collection development, and distance education services.

Presenters:

Hannah Kim

Jennifer Duncan

Date: 
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
Ballroom A

Self-Help Reference: Putting the Librarian Back Behind the Curtain / We’re Going Mobile: Roving Reference in an Academic Library

Posted Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:39pm by pfrade

Self-Help Reference: Putting the Librarian Back Behind the Curtain:

Brigham Young University is using SpringShare's LibAnswers tool to create a dynamic, interactive FAQ. This publicly accessible knowledgebase will help patrons find answers to their own reference questions. But is that really a good idea? And where does it leave the librarian? Come see how it works, how it's being built, and join the discussion about what it means for libraries.

 

We’re Going Mobile: Roving Reference in an Academic Library:

Date: 
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 
Ballroom A
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