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Cutting Through COVID-19 Communications Overload: Which Emails Engaged Personal Librarian Students?
When the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a move to remote learning for many in early 2020, those employed in higher education turned to email as a primary method for communicating and remaining virtually connected with ... -
Roll for initiative: Using library game nights to empower student leaders
Academic libraries provide valuable programming for their campus communities. This programming often springs from collaborations with other campus centers, but we sometimes overlook the fact that student organizations can ... -
Discussions at a Distance: Autonomy in Asynchronous Course Assignments
After instructing a typically in-person, first-year experience course in an asynchronous, online format for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this instructor sought student feedback on both the modes of discussion ... -
Effects of high school location on first-year students’ research confidence and college readiness
In Ohio, K-12 public school funding models have been ruled unconstitutional four times due to the great discrepancies among districts from different economic and geographic areas. One of these discrepancies is often the ... -
Faculty-librarian partnerships within a course-based first-year research experience program
Miami University offers several avenues for undergraduates to participate in research, the First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program being one of them. Created a decade ago, the program currently takes the form of a ... -
Building Your Brand and Communicating for Collaboration in a Brand New Role
Newly created roles in libraries are an exciting opportunity, but can also be confusing: for colleagues, your campus and community. The confusion is only compounded when a position breaks with tradition or is built on ... -
Future Focused Outreach with Campus and Community Collaborations
In changing times, outreach efforts play a major role in meaningfully connecting users to the academic library of the 21st century. Collaborations, both on- and off-campus, are vital to the success of such endeavors. This ... -
Digital Wellness: Strategies for Supporting Student Well-Being Online
With 24/7 device access and frequent social media use proving problematic to the success of our students, this poster presents an argument for digital wellness instruction in libraries, potential campus collaborators for ... -
Advisors as Allies: Connecting Libraries and Academic Advising
Nearly every college student is assigned to and familiar with how to communicate with their academic advisor; unfortunately, the same cannot be said for most students and their liaison librarian. Though librarians and ... -
Systematic Reviews and Evidence Syntheses
Invited presentation on systematic reviews, evidence syntheses, and a librarian's role on evidence synthesis teams. -
(Re)Building Alliances: Advocating for art methodologies in digital collections collaborations
Advocating for art disciplinary methodologies in collaborations with digital collections librarians, especially in academic libraries, is a vital skill. While art librarians have refined and transformed their relationship ... -
Exhibiting STEAM: Engaging Art Librarianship in the STEM Narrative
Art and science are often thought of as separate and unrelated disciplines. However, art has frequently been influenced by scientific discoveries, and science has used artistic techniques to expand knowledge. Since STEM ... -
Libraries Are Not Neutral: Implementing Social Justice and Critical Information Literacy into One-Shot Instruction
The United States is finally listening to the Black Lives Matter Movement. After the tragic murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others at the hands of police, white Americans are recognizing the ... -
When You're Forced to Go Digital: Zinemaking Online
In spring 2020, universities found themselves navigating an unprecedented and sudden shift to online learning. Librarians have played a crucial role in connecting students and faculty with digital tools and resources during ... -
Experiences of Palliative and End-of-Life Care among Older LGBTQ Women: A Review of Current Literature
Background: Understanding end-of-life (EOL) and palliative care continues to grow. However, little attention has been paid to the experiences, preferences, and needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ... -
Transitioning statistics help desk service from in-person to remote: Exploration of risks and opportunities
Objective: Examine initiative to transform student staffed, in-person statistical help desk service from physical to remote service. Setting/Resources: Miami University Libraries have offered a student staffed statistics ... -
Team teaching anatomy using innovative technology: A case study
Objective: The aim of this paper was to describe a novel team teach approach to teaching an anatomy class using a 3D computer graphics (3DCG) tool. Setting/Participants: Participants were 38 Speech Pathology and Audiology ... -
Maker Services in Academic Libraries: A Review of Case Studies
Makerspaces and maker-centered learning have surged in popularity in higher education and particularly academic libraries in recent years, following trends that initially emerged in primary and secondary education and ... -
Information Inspiration: Creativity Across the Disciplines in Academic Libraries
Placing new emphasis on makerspaces, digital scholarship and publishing, and inventive ideation-centered instruction, academic libraries have in recent years turned their attention to inspiring and supporting creativity. ... -
An Introduction to the Creative Commons: Creation, Licensing, and Use
Copyright permeates almost every aspect of the creation and use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Given academic librarians role in championing the OER movement and promoting the ethical and responsible re-use of ...