Re:Purpose Your Event: How the RE:BOOK Altered Book Contest Became a Signature Event at The Claremont Colleges Library

Poster presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference 201

Creative Connections: Engaging Students and Faculty through a Library Artist in Residence

It can be challenging to forge connections between an academic library and undergraduate art students, who are often heavily engaged in beginning studio practice and may only associate the library with the more traditional research done by other disciplines. One way to overcome this challenge is to change their perceptions of the library through programming that demonstrates that the library can be a site for exploration, inspiration, research, and innovation by artists. At the Claremont Colleges Library, we partnered with a member of the art faculty to create a Library Artist in Residence (LAIR) program, which has the twin goals of strengthening connections between the library and visual art students and faculty, and promoting creative and innovative ways of using/thinking about the library. The residency provides a professional artist with a workspace in which to create new artwork that engages with library spaces, collections, history, and/or people. The resident artist works with art students and installs a public exhibition of the finished artwork in the library. This presentation will describe the LAIR collaboration, detailing our successes, opportunities for improvement, and plans for the future

Diversifying the Academy: Librarians Coaching Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows through the Scholarly Research Cycle

Increasing diversity within the scholarly community is a priority for academic libraries. Often the focus is on diversifying our staff, programs, collections, and services. But the library can also have an important role to play in campus diversity initiatives that focus on equity and inclusion among the student body and professorate. This poster will detail a library coaching program developed as part of a local instance of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, a nationwide initiative to increase faculty diversity by supporting students of color to pursue PhDs and careers as professors. The coaching program pairs librarians with undergraduates in their junior and senior years. Library coaches build a research-focused relationship with students geared toward ongoing empowerment and the development of the research and information literacy skills that students need to be successful. The poster will present the key elements of this successful program including background, setting expectations for coaches, librarian training and development, program assessment, and strategies for engagement with campus stakeholders. The poster will also elaborate on how the program can serve as a model for coaching other student cohorts that would benefit from additional librarian support, such as first-generation students, affinity groups, student athletes, library student workers, or honors students. This poster is relevant to those who perform outreach to student groups and programs and/or are involved in diversity initiatives, as well as all who are interested in alternative teaching and learning programming. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas they can apply at their own institutions

Visual Curriculum Mapping: Charting the Learner Experience

American Library Association Annual Conference 201

Choose Your Own Adventure: Integrating an Information Literacy Rubric into Seven (Very) Different Colleges

It is no small feat to develop a replicable, dependable information literacy rubric that is appropriate to an institution’s unique student population. But once the rubric is created, how does it become edited, adopted, and utilized by campus stakeholders to actually improve information literacy learning? And, what happens when you multiply this by a consortial context, wherein one information literacy rubric is presented to five undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools, each with unique governance models, assessment profiles, and relationships with the library they share? The visual nature of a poster will provide a perfect means to map out the different paths the rubric and its librarian advocates have taken at each of the Claremont College campuses. The schools represent a range of governance models from top down to consensus based to grass roots, and are at very different stages of outcomes-based assessment, a few already utilizing numerous evaluation methods while others are brand new to systematic assessment. Our insight into information literacy assessment and advocacy across different institutional structures will speak to librarians from primary to higher education contexts. While all institutions are unique, any librarian should be able to identify with one or more paths toward information literacy assessment integration, and transform this knowledge into successful campus information literacy assessment collaborations

Art Conservation Curriculum Map 2013-2014

This map displays degree requirements, courses, faculty information, clubs & organizations, and Library resources associated with art conservation across the seven Claremont Colleges (7Cs) for the 2013-14 academic year. It was compiled using public information drawn from Colleges websites, course schedules and catalogs, and the Claremont Colleges Library website. This project was completed as part of an IMLS Sparks! Ignition grant in 2013-14