LibGuides

LibGuides have allowed the College at Brockport librarians to update and design research guides more efficiently and effectively than in the past. They have created a way for librarians to collaborate with faculty outside of the library to improve students’ access to resources. Faculty have been willing to work with librarians as they develop guides specific to their courses

Blended Planning: Teamwork for the Library-2-LMS Conference Spawns New Partnerships

In 2008 the College at Brockport\u27s library and Information Technology (IT) staff stirred up a successful one-day conference: Integrating Library Services into Learning Management Systems. This session will describe the details for planning the conference as well as the practical ideas generated by presenters and participants. It will also show how the library and IT departments\u27 collaboration created unexpected, yet long-term, benefits

Professional Writing for Librarians

•During this session prospective authors will learn how one librarian wrote and published articles as a sole author, co-author and with a group of authors. Creative opportunities and projects abound in and around the library; the hard part is converting these projects into publishable material. •Discover ways to generate research ideas through regular job duties, patron interactions, coursework, and grants. •Learn how to take ideas and projects and publish them as scholarly articles for library journals. •Bring your own topics and/or drafts, and we will work on them together. •Identify publishing opportunities: both traditional journals and open access titles and peruse helpful publishing resources. •Learn how to create a consistent online presence on Google scholar, ORCID, and/or your institutional repository, where you can also keep track of all types of scholarly work

Review of the book Information literacy that works: A guide to teaching by discipline and student population, by P. Ragains

Review of the book: Information literacy that works: A guide to teaching by discipline and student population, by P. Ragains

Collaborating to Write Scholarly Communications: Find Inspiration from one Librarian’s Journey

During this session perspective authors will learn how one librarian wrote and published articles, as a sole author, co-author and with a group of authors. Creative opportunities and projects abound on a college campus; the harder part is converting these projects into publishable material. Learn how to take ideas and projects and publish them in scholarly journals as a librarian. Bring your own ideas and/or drafts, and we will work on them together. We will also identify publishing opportunities: both traditional journals and open access titles and provide links for more information

Discover New Ways to Publish and Promote YOUR scholarly works

This poster will provide ideas for ways in which faculty can write and publish peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and book reviews, based on the author’s experiences. Many faculty have research and projects on which they would like to publish, especially with the creative opportunities that abound on college campuses. Converting them from ideas to articles and book chapters takes time, patience, and often collaboration with others. Learn how to discover appropriate publishing outlets in journals and books, including the rapidly growing outlet of open access journals. Once you finish your work, submit your draft and expect to make revisions. Your reward will be a published product. The author will also share how the creation of a profile in a digital repository has increased the visibility and readership of her works. The author has published several peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter over the past nine years, as sole author, co-author, and group author, in the field of library and information science. This poster should encourage faculty and staff of all disciplines and will focus on the scholarly communications aspect for this conference

The Path to Full Participation: Increasing the Number of First-year Experience Information Literacy Sessions

Learn how a new library instruction coordinator increased the participation of first-year experience sections from less than 10 percent to almost 100 percent over a 7 year period. In 2005 the number of first-year experience classes had dropped to an all-time low, averaging 5 out of 55 total sections. The traditional “library tour” was outdated, embedded sessions in an introductory communications class had been tried for one year and failed, and librarians were frustrated at the lack of involvement with first-year students. Instruction librarians worked together to design a more engaging information literacy session for the first-year experience sections. Strategies included involvement with the training of the first-year experience faculty, an “assignment” built on the common first-year reading book, and a more hands-on opportunity for the students. Although the sessions evolve each year, the participation rate is at almost one hundred percent, a positive first step in information literacy for every student. After the session examples of the assignment (and its evolution), the assessment measures, and plans for the future, including online material, will be provided

Getting Started… & Published: A Hands-on Workshop for Librarians

Does the idea of publishing your own material sound exciting, yet intimidating too? Would you like to spend a few hours with someone who once felt that way but successfully turned several projects and ideas into peer-reviewed published articles and book chapters? Come to this interactive workshop and get inspiration to take your own ideas and research and publish them. Using your regular job duties, interactions with patrons, continuing education opportunities and grant-writing experiences you can generate new ideas for research articles and write about them. Whether you have someone to work with or want to write alone, we will discuss the pros and cons of each, as well as ways to keep organized and creative while writing. We will identify various publishing outlets, including traditional journals and open access titles, and discuss your rights as an author. Learn how to create your own online presence and use your institutional repository (if available) as well as Google Scholar and ORCID. Bring your ideas and your pens or laptops, as we spend time brainstorming, writing, and encouraging each other to just get it done! Jennifer Little Kegler has published journal articles regarding information literacy instruction, faculty collaboration with librarians, and cognitive learning theory and online library research guides. She has presented at the state and national level, including the biennial ACRL conferences. Her research interests include effective library instruction and reference methods and cognitive learning theories, as they relate to online environment. Most recently she has become interested in scholarly communication and is working to familiarize faculty and students alike in the importance of copyright and archiving of “original research.” She is a Reference Librarian and the Library Instruction Coordinator at the College at Brockport, SUNY, where she has worked since 2005. She held similar positions at the University of South Carolina Aiken, Taylor University, IN, and Williams College, MA