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Reframing Liaisonship: Moving Towards Quality User Engagement
As librarianship continues to evolve, the roles of the liaison librarian have also changed considerably. So, what are the priorities for an effective liaison? This program will detail our institution's reframing of liaison ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Engagement, Effectiveness & Efficiency: Energize Your Personal Librarian Program
Miami University Libraries created a Personal Librarian program to supplement our liaison system in support of student success and information literacy advancement. Our program was designed to integrate into university ... -
Dedicated Technology Facilities: Impacts, Success, and Implications
Miami University’s Assessment in Action project examined the effectiveness of two high-end digital media facilities. The first study of the project compared the technological self-efficacy of students who used the facilities ... -
Spicing up the Orientation: Promoting Brill Science Library
This poster describes “Follow The Silk Road….to the Science Library”, a new orientation for the Brill Science Library at Miami University. The orientation combined many important ingredients including outreach, information ... -
Smart Searching: An Online Information Literacy Tutorial Tailored Specifically To Introductory Engineering Students
A common problem facing librarians today is convincing students about the world of information beyond Google. Traditional library instruction is a reasonable answer, but tends not to be effective. First, introductory science ... -
Gettin' Hot in Here: Using Global Warming to Connect the Library with the Community
Who knew that a topic as controversial as global warming could bring people together? GAIA (Global Awareness and Information Access), a year-long series of events, with global warming as the central theme, provided students ... -
What Information Literacy Means to Me: Collaborating with Faculty to Understand Student Perceptions of Information Literacy
This presentation recounts the experiences of The Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a community of professors and librarians at Miami University (Oxford, OH). Community members created a ... -
Do They Really Know? Collaborating with Faculty on Information Literacy Assessment
This poster will recount the experience of Miami University's Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a group of professors and librarians who work together on incorporating information literacy ... -
Campus-wide partnerships to improve students’ academic integrity iQ
Miami University’s iQ (short for integrity Quickstart) is a newly created online tutorial that guides students through different scenarios about academic integrity and research issues. Each scenario introduces the student ... -
Joining forces with Faculty to Foster Information Literacy Best Practices in the Classroom
Faculty often are frustrated by the quality of student research, including low scholarly resource use and lack of evaluation skills. Miami University (Oxford, OH) has created a faculty learning community (comprised of both ... -
Integrated Information Literacy Assessment using ePortfolios
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system for the entire ... -
Engaging with Wikipedia via Article Creation
The dichotomy of Wikipedia: many love it, and many others love to hate it. While students may not entirely understand the process behind Wikipedia, they do know that they can get information fast (and generally of high ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Using Visual Literacy to Demonstrate the Impact of Technological Space
Learn how we assessed the visual literacy skills of students in relation to the use of our technological spaces in the Libraries. We will share the rubric we created to assess student poster presentations at the annual ... -
Student Perceptions as a Method to Improve Information Literacy
Purpose When considering the information literacy skills of students, faculty (and librarians) often make assumptions as to what students know, understand, or why they act as they do. To help alleviate these misunderstandings, ... -
Quality and Engaging Student Research Projects: A Student Development Theory Approach
Research projects can cause struggles for students, faculty, and librarians alike. While assumptions are made as to why these struggles occur, we propose that looking at student development theory can further assist in ... -
Reimagining Info Lit Assessment: An Inexpensive and Easy Method for Measuring IL Skill Progression
How information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable ...
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