The Library in Your Course: Engaging Students in an LMS

You want the librarian to teach your students everything they need to know about the library and how to do research in one 50 minute instruction session in which this is the first time they\u27re meeting, there is limited use of technology, and their papers are due in 10 weeks? Any instructor knows that this is not going to be a successful instruction session, but there is a way to increase the likelihood that the librarian and your students will have a more successful interaction: embed the librarian and the library in your LMS! Benefits include: building a rapport with the librarian prior to their in-person visit, flipping the classroom with library tutorials and modules, introducing the students to library resources at their point of need, and reducing cognitive load of students during an in-person session.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1033/thumbnail.jp

Transformative Learning: Changing ESL Students’ Research Methods through the Examination of the Processes of Information Creation

ACRL Information Literacy Frame: Information Creation as a Process Discipline: Arts & Humanities Subject: English as a Second Language Learning Theories: Transformative Learning; Constructivism Special Populations: English Language Learner

Finding the Missing Piece: Communicating Library Value to Complete the Assessment Puzzle

Library assessment is like putting together a puzzle with many pieces, and some of these pieces can be forgotten or even lost. This presentation provides attendees with the missing puzzle piece they need to begin using their assessment data to actively engage stakeholders through library value conversations. The presenter will establish the importance of communicating assessment findings and library impact to stakeholders, and arm attendees with effective communication tools and strategies for communicating library value at their institution

Take the Bull by the Horns: Combatting Bullshit in Academic Libraries

This poster will discuss what is meant by “bullish*t” in libraries, as defined in a seminal talk given by Jane Schmidt in a 2018 keynote at the Canadian Association for Professional and Academic Librarians. The presenter will identify various types of BS perpetuated and created in libraries, highlighting such concepts as “innovation,” “leadership,” and “(ir)relevance.” The presenter seeks to answer the question is BS ever beneficial to the library and it’s organizational culture?” Finally, the poster will discuss specific strategies for combating BS in one’s own library, including overcoming the cult of busy . Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own libraries and their own practice in order to engage with each other about the culture we create in libraries, and the positives and negatives we encounter. Although this poster has an academic library perspective, BS is a common situation in many organizational cultures, thus it may appeal to those who work in other types of libraries.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1032/thumbnail.jp

Modelling the spread of brain tumours

The study of mathematical biology attempts to use mathematical models to draw useful conclusions about biological systems. Here, we consider the modelling of brain tumour spread with the ultimate goal of improving treatment outcomes

Talent Management and New Trajectories: Preparing and Retaining Early Career Librarians

Presented at ACRL 2017, Baltimore, Maryland This poster addresses various strategies in successfully navigating the transition from LIS programs to entry level academic library employment. Comparing and contrasting qualitative early career librarian survey data with the ARL SPEC Kit 344: Talent Management, in which on-boarding and succession planning practices are discussed at the administrative level, visitors gain insight to common challenges and opportunities, including: workplace integration, communicating competency levels, evaluative criteria, professional development planning, and more.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1031/thumbnail.jp