Innovative Teaching Strategies and Conventional Approaches for Enhanced Learning in a Global Information Environment

This SIG session features five panels that will share innovative ideas on teaching and learning in LIS. Each panel will showcase a novel approaches to pedagogy that attendees will find useful. Agosto and Poole discuss Community-Based Librarianship, a postbaccalaureate certificate program being developed at Drexel University. In Determining Community Needs with CARES, Bossaller, Adkins, and Kleinsorge demonstrate how the CARES Engagement Network, a free online resource, can be used in the LIS curriculum. Hands and Tucker discuss The 7-Slide Update: A Pedagogical Tool for Enriching Scholarly Communication, a guided approach that focuses on key dimensions of doctoral work. Alman and Faires provide an overview of the social media apps in use by iSchool faculty at San Jose State University in Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom with Social Media & Cloud-based Apps: Connecting, Communicating and Transforming LIS Education. In Social Justice Design and Implementation: Transforming LIS Education. Mehra discusses his critical pedagogies and reflective practices as an instructor of three graduate courses taught in LIS at the University of Alabama. Presentations will be followed by an interactive question and answer session

RocHealthData.org: Development and usage of a publicly available, geographic source of social determinants of health data

Access to local, population specific, and timely data is vital in understanding factors that impact population health. The impact of place (neighborhood, census tract, and city) is particularly important in understanding the Social Determinants of Health. The University of Rochester Medical Center’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute created the web-based tool RocHealthData.org to provide access to thousands of geographically displayed publicly available health-related datasets. The site has also hosted a variety of locally curated datasets (eg., COVID-19 vaccination rates and community-derived health indicators), helping set community priorities and impacting outcomes. Usage statistics (available through Google Analytics) show returning visitors with a lower bounce rate (leaving a site after a single page access) and spent longer at the site than new visitors. Of the currently registered 1033 users, 51.7% were from within our host university, 20.1% were from another educational institution, and 28.2% identified as community members. Our assessments indicate that these data are useful and valued across a variety of domains. Continuing site improvement depends on new sources of locally relevant data, as well as increased usage of data beyond our local region