Developing a GamePlan: Libraries and Campus Athletic Departments

At a number of academic libraries, librarians have begun partnering with Athletic Departments to deliver information literacy to freshman athletes. This breakout session will present three different endeavors designed to meet the needs of the incoming student athlete. UCLA’s College Library has recently expanded collaboration with their athletic department from an annual one-shot for incoming football players to an ongoing partnership integrating library instruction and awareness into the freshman football and basketball teams’ total academic experience. Arizona State University faced two challenges: help student-athletes learn to use the Library\u27s resources, and train their tutors and mentors. Every ASU freshman athlete takes a one-credit Life Skills course, and working in collaboration with the Office of Student Athlete Development, the Instruction team had the unprecedented opportunity to help design the curriculum for a library-focused unit that would not only teach the athletes and their academic coaches about the available resources, but also require the students to write a reflective essay on the experience of searching for relevant information in a library resource. At Willamette University, the librarians have worked with the Athletic Department to create a program called “GamePlan”. The program, which now includes football, crew, basketball, soccer and volleyball teams, is in its third year. Each Fall semester is treated as an “information challenge”, broken up into seven different 20-minute sessions. The sessions, held in the evenings, are focused on individual topics with explicit objectives

Academic Reading Attitudes during COVID; Preliminary Report of UCLA Students’ Responses

Presented are preliminary findings from a new study of UCLA students' reading format attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study of UCLA's study of students' remote learning attitudes in spring 2020 did not include one question related to reading electronically or the library (https://teaching.ucla.edu/resources/keep-teaching/#student-perspectives). This study fills that gap and reveals that most students’ attitudes towards reading in e-format did not improve during COVID. It is possible that the increased amount of time spent on their computers during remote learning in general caused a screen fatigue that lowered their ability and desire to read their course readings online

Individuality and Diversity among Undergraduates’ Academic Information Behaviors: An Exploratory Study

The purpose of this study is to explore the information management behaviors of undergraduate students in their dormitory rooms, using Personal Information Management (PIM) as the theoretical framework. Ethnographic methods were applied to study how students devise their own systems combining digital and traditional tools to collect, create, manipulate, organize, and manage the information they need to fulfill their roles as university students. Results show a broad diversity of behaviors influenced more by individual learning styles and preferences than high-tech gadgetry. It is proposed that just as every individual has unique learning styles and preferences, so too do we have individual information styles, and we apply our tools and gadgets in our own ways to best accommodate our own styles

Nazi-Looted Books in the UCLA Library Collection

By using HathiTrust, curators from a European museum library located several books in our university collection that had been looted by the Nazis during World War II. We did not find any discussion of similar experiences among North American libraries, nor any professional guidelines for repatriating material. I will share some historical background of Nazi book policies, how these books reached our library, the repatriation process we developed, and why and how we are publicizing this case as broadly as possible

Reading Format Attitudes in the Time of COVID

Preliminary findings from a new study of UCLA students' reading format attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic will be presented. A study of UCLA's study of students' remote learning attitudes in spring 2020 did not include one question related to reading electronically or the library, and this study fills that gap to reveal that most students’ attitudes towards reading in e-format did not improve during COVID. It is possible that the increased amount of time spent on their computers during remote learning in general caused a screen fatigue that lowered their ability and desire to read their course readings online

Discovery and Recovery: Uncovering Nazi Looted Books in the UCLA Library and Repatriation Efforts

This presentation will discuss the story of five books looted by Nazis from the Jewish Community Library in Prague during World War II that were recently discovered in the UCLA Library. Curators in Prague found four of these volumes using the HathiTrust database, after which UCLA began a repatriation process. A brief overview of the historical context of the confiscation and destruction of millions of books and other cultural items by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945 is explored, as are the post-war efforts for restitution and repatriation by the victorious allies. As the digitization of academic library holdings progresses, the probability of more looted material being uncovered in academic libraries worldwide increases. But how did they end up there and what should libraries do with them once discovered? Scholarly literature describing similar experiences of academic libraries was not found. This case study is one example that can open a dialog to address the issue