Squaring the Circle Through Outreach: Building Student Engagement from Scratch

OBJECTIVE The Library works with campus and community partners in order to make a positive impact on students, campus, and community. This poster describes a year of student events and engagement, the challenges and insights from those events, and the collective impact they have had on meeting student needs, increasing library visibility on campus, and enhancing communications between students and the library. METHODS Needs assessment survey was conducted in Fall 2018 to measure what students would most like from the Library. Adjacently, the Library executed a number of events at varying times of year to engage the students such as Cookies & Cram, Pi Day, Fuel Your Brain for Finals, and Fridays in the Park. RESULTS These Library events reached 675 students (approximately 23% of student body). The data from the student satisfaction survey indicated that the Library is meeting student needs in engagement and activity. This indication is reiterated by students’ positive feedback after every event. CONCLUSIONS This year, student engagement was a success. Students indicated being positively impacted by the events coordinated by the Library. The Library intends to continue to meet student needs, increase library visibility on campus, and enhance communication between the library and students. In the future, consideration will be taken towards overlapping schedules of students

Book Reviews

Book Review

Form and function within a phylogenetic framework: Locomotory habits of extant predators and some Miocene Sparassodonta (Metatheria)

In this study, we analysed locomotory habits in extant predators and Sparassodonta species through geometric morphometric techniques and discriminant analyses of the distal humerus in anterior view, proximal ulna in lateral view, and tibia in proximal view. We included a wide sample of extant predators, and considered the phylogenetic and allometric structure in the data sets. We also included some Sparassodonta, a group of carnivorous metatherians that inhabited South America during the Cenozoic, and inferred their locomotory habits. Results suggest the presence of a close relationship between shape and locomotory habits, even after removing the shape component explained by phylogeny in the three postcranial elements. Terrestrial habits were inferred for Arctodictis sinclairi, Borhyaena tuberata, 'Lycopsis' longirostrus, and Thylacosmilus atrox. Some degree of cursoriality was highlighted in B. tuberata and T. atrox, and climbing abilities in 'L.' longirostrus, and to a lesser degree in B. tuberata. Scansorial habits were inferred for Cladosictis patagonica, Sipalocyon gracilis, Prothylacynus patagonicus, and Pseudonotictis pusillus, and in the case of C. patagonica, some digging ability was also tentatively inferred. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London.Fil: Ercoli, Marcos Darío. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; ArgentinaFil: Prevosti, Francisco Juan. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; ArgentinaFil: Alvarez, Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de la Plata; Argentin