Schedule and Session Abstracts -- 2008 Spring Conference
ILA/ACRL Spring Conference 2008
“Activating Advocacy: The Many Roles of Academic Libraries”
Monday, March 3, 2008- Rogalski Center
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
Conference Schedule
Sunday, March 2
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6:00pm |
Casual dinner and drinks at the Front Street Brewery, with meals and drinks to be paid individually by attendees.
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8:30—9:00am |
Registration |
Second Floor |
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9:00—9:15am |
Welcome & Introduction
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Third Floor, Ballroom |
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9:15—10:15am |
Context Diversity and the Role of Academic Libraries
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Third Floor, Ballroom |
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10:15—10:45am |
Break |
Third Floor |
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10:45—11:45am |
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11:45am—1:15pm |
Lunch & Business Meeting |
Third Floor, Ballroom |
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1:15—2:15pm |
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2:15—2:45pm |
Break |
Third Floor |
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2:45—3:45pm |
“Fantasy Sports: The Road to Information Literacy Championships”
Paul Waelchli, University of Dubuque
Session Manager: Chris Neuhaus, University of Northern Iowa
Location: TBA
19.4 million fantasy sports players, many college students, rely on information literacy to succeed in their fantasy sports leagues, but do not realize it. This session analyzes the connection between fantasy sports and information literacy and how librarians can use fantasy sports to make information literacy meaningful to students. A background on fantasy sports, media and research is provided. One library connected information literacy skills to fantasy football for incoming student athletes. The planning, implementation, and assessment of that session are outlined. This session provides a way of connecting fantasy strategies to academic skills to create successful, information literate students.
“Txting the Teacher: How to Illuminate In-Class Learning with Web Conferencing Software”
Kimberly Bloedel, University of Iowa
Session Manager: Mary Iber, Cornell College
Location: TBA
The business librarians at the University of Iowa teach a synchronous online class using the e-learning and web conferencing software Elluminate. An online web conferencing tool lends itself to an interactive and inclusive learning environment. In this setting, instructors use innovative teaching methods, such as facilitating a discussion using instant messaging and surveying students using an online polling feature. This presentation will discuss teaching strategies used in the online class and highlight the successes and challenges of teaching in a synchronous online classroom.
“Building a Library Community with Humor, Fun, and Celebrations”
Joyce Meldrem, Loras College
Session Manager: Brett Cloyd, University of Iowa
Location: TBA
This session will give participants ideas of ways to incorporate fun, humor, celebrations, and recognition into their workplace in order to help build a sense of community and help provide great customer service. Librarians interested in having fun at work or putting more fun into their workplace should attend. There will also be an opportunity to share your fun ideas with the other attendees.
“Off-Site Storage: Value-added?”
Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College
Session Manager: Bart Schmidt, Drake University
Location: TBA
Powerpoint presentation
Bibliography (Doc)
As libraries become overcrowded and resources become available in electronic formats libraries are faced with decisions about how to advance the needs of their patrons. Are print and electronic versions of scholarly (and popular) materials equal? Does each library need to hold physical versions of older items ‘just in case’? Should we advocate for remote storage solutions? Should there be regional repositories of these artifacts around the United States and the world? Librarians must take the lead in this time of uncertainty. Paper and print has been a reliable preservation format. With electronic resources there is no track record.
Dr. Roberto A. Ibarra’s Q&A Session
Dr. Roberto Ibarra, University of New Mexico
Session Manager: Jan Dellinger, Hawkeye Community College
Location: TBA
Dr. Ibarra has graciously agreed to be available for a small group conversation during this tier of concurrent sessions. Bring your questions, insights and comments and be prepared for a lively group discussion.
“Focus on the First Year: Libraries and Students in Transition”
Mireille Djenno, Drake University
Session Manager: Bart Schmidt, Drake University
Location: TBA
For institutions considering either creating a dedicated First Year Experience Librarian position or making first year students a primary responsibility of an existing position, this session offers an opportunity to understand the rationale behind such a position and some of the ways it can be used to advocate for student learning of, and beyond, information literacy. The presentation looks at the origins and development of the First Year Experience movement and the relatively new role of FYE librarians within that movement. This session will also examine some of the challenges to librarians’ advocacy, including assessment and faculty collaboration.
“Modeling Scholarly Inquiry: One Article at a Time”
Mary Anne Knefel, University of Dubuque
Paul Waelchli, University of Dubuque
Anne Marie Gruber, University of Dubuque
Jessica Schreyer, University of Dubuque
Session Manager: Chris Neuhaus, University of Northern Iowa
Location: TBA
Powerpoint 2007 presentation
Handout (PDF)
Librarians and the Writing Center Director at the University of Dubuque describe how they collaborated with English faculty to create and implement an assignment that incorporates critical thinking, ethical inquiry, and information literacy in a required composition class. In the assignment, a team of faculty, librarians, and writing tutors lead student peer groups as they write a research paper using common journal articles in support of a single thesis. Librarians will also analyze qualitative data collected during the first three semesters.
“You were poked by the OPAC” – Facebook Applications in Libraries
Ryan Gjerde, Luther College
Session Manager: Lisa McDaniels, University of Iowa
Location: TBA
Facebook has quickly grown from a photo directory available only to Ivy Leaguers, to a global social network. Many high school and college students rely on Facebook for personal expression, communication, and information discovery. Within these highly personalized Facebook environments designed by our users, should libraries promote discovery of resources and services?
In a word -- yes! Attend this session to learn about site features, including low-impact marketing solutions. Also, learn about customized Facebook applications used for searching the library catalog and as a library gateway.
“What Counts? Using Data to Influence Practice”
Tonnie Flannery, Cornell College
Jessica Johanningmeier, Cornell College
Session Manager: Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College
Location: TBA
As a key component of academic libraries, data inform decisions about collection development, user education, and classroom instruction. In this session, a consulting librarian and a quantitative reasoning consultant will share their experiences examining Interlibrary Loan and information literacy data; specifically, they will share how data analysis has helped improve services and forecast demand. Participants will leave with strategies for how the data libraries naturally generate can be used to influence practice. Facilitators will discuss questions data can answer, strategies for collection and analysis, and what institutions can gain from exploring data in new ways.
“Making the Move: From Support Personnel to Librarian, a Closer Look”
Mary Iber, Cornell College
Sue Leibold, Clarke College
Rob Van Rennes, University of Iowa
Moderated by Brett Cloyd, University of Iowa
Session Manager: Jan Dellinger, Hawkeye Community College
Location: TBA
This moderated panel discussion will feature three librarians who began their library careers in support staff positions. Making this transition can offer some unique challenges but also be very rewarding. Panelists will discuss their work as support staff personnel, their decision to transition to a librarian position, educational opportunities that helped make the transition possible, and issues related to embracing new challenges and responsibilities once becoming a librarian. The session will be of interest to support staff personnel and librarians, and it will provide insight into the dynamic relationship between these two working identities in the library world.
“ICONic Training: Using A Course Management System for Continuous Student Training”
Sarah Andrews, University of Iowa
Catherine Reed Thureson, University of Iowa
Session Manager: Chris Neuhaus, University of Northern Iowa
Location: TBA
Do you have problems keeping up with training student employees? How do you update current employees on policy or procedural changes? Learn how The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences uses The University of Iowa’s online course management system (ICON) to continuously train students who staff public services desks. Training is conducted through readings, quizzes, tutorials, and interactions with staff and students via bulletin boards. We’ll show our current training program, as well as discuss successes and failures.
“Assignments Worth doing—Collaborating with Faculty to Design Authentic Learning Opportunities”
Jean Donham, Cornell College
Session Manager: Bart Schmidt, Drake University
Location: TBA
What metaphors might your students use to describe the research process? Assembly?
Copy and paste? Trucking? Students often lack the mental model of research as a process
of inquiry wherein one asks authentic questions and seeks new knowledge. We will
integrate research and practice to:
o Examine mental models as the concept relates to student research
o Review a taxonomy of research questions librarians can introduce in instruction
sessions to improve students understanding of research
o Use a set of criteria for authentic inquiry to evaluate assignments
We will end with a to-do list for progressing toward more authentic inquiry.
“WPL@HCC and CFPL@UNI: Partnering to Advocate for Lifelong Reading”
Sheryl Groskurth, Waterloo and Cedar Falls Public Libraries
Linda McLaury, University of Northern Iowa
Jan Dellinger, Hawkeye Community College
Session Manager: Jan Dellinger, Hawkeye Community College
Location: TBA
Studies have shown that leisure reading is linked to a higher level of community involvement, including participation in cultural events, volunteer work and sports activities. This presentation will focus on two public/academic library partnerships that provide convenient and relevant fiction and popular nonfiction collections on campus to support the habit of leisure reading. Project leaders will discuss both practical and theoretical aspects of these projects, including philosophy, legal agreements, funding, selection, publicity, coordination and challenges. Preliminary assessments will be shared for the projects that began in Fall 2007.
“Advocacy for bibliographic control: is cataloging dead?”
Randy Roeder, University of Iowa
Rebecca Routh, University of Iowa
Session Manager: Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College
Location: TBA
You’ve heard it many times. Cataloging is dead. Catalogers are going the way of the dinosaur. There’s just enough truth to these statements to create an atmosphere of uncertainty about the value of the bibliographic work that libraries do. While the old ways of doing business are dying, the value that catalogers bring to the description of--and access to--our intellectual heritage is as great as ever. Those involved in this sort of work need to advocate for the quality of data and the accessibility that enables researchers to successfully navigate an increasingly complex bibliographic universe. Randy Roeder and Rebecca Routh of the University of Iowa Libraries’ Central Technical Services Department will survey some of the developments shaping the current environment.