Out of sync: The time-sucking shock of teaching online.

Newsletter article on communication in online learning environments.DL: Distance Learning Division of the Indiana Library Federation, 4(1), 2-3

Open Educational Resources: The ISU Textbook Affordability Initiative and Student Succ

Many have observed that completion and affordability are critical challenges for higher education today in terms of student success. One method being adopted internationally to address such challenges is integration of freely available Open Educational Resources (OER) in course content. OER can address the rising costs of attending college by reducing the overall cost of expensive college textbooks. However, by providing OER in lieu of textbooks, faculty do more than just address student debt concerns. OER can facilitate student learning by reducing student stress in obtaining required materials, and by engaging students in course content using such resources as OER interactive media. This poster describes how OER can enhance student learning in general, and reviews the ISU Textbook Affordability Initiative. This initiative has helped reduce ISU students’ financial burden by decreasing the need to purchase college textbooks, specifically in Foundational Studies courses, and courses required for academic majors, saving our students $3,008,743.40 (FY14 through FY19) to date. The initiative, administered by the ISU Library, involves library faculty and instructional designers working with faculty to convert their courses via a systematic, pedagogically informed process. In addition to OER integration into existing course content, OER textbooks created through the initiative are used in the university’s College Challenge Program, which is a dual credit program that enables high school students to earn ISU college credit in courses taught at their local high schools.Learning Connections Summit, Indiana State University, 201

Discovering Buried Treasure: Teaching Strategies for the Aging Population

Traditionally community engagement for academic libraries translates as outreach to the academic community. But what are the possibilities when an academic library extends outreach to people not normally defined as university stakeholders? At Indiana State University (ISU), we learned that extending outreach to an untapped population can reap unexpected gains. For the past two years ISU instruction librarians have traveled to a local retirement community to teach computer skills as part of ISU’s Bites & Bytes program. The initial goal of the program was to benefit the community-at-large by providing these adult learners with therapeutic activity and a social outlet. We soon realized that we had to learn to teach to a new population of learners, and because of this our new students were teaching us as much – if not more – than we were teaching them. We adopted teaching techniques that addressed their unique learning styles and incorporated these newly acquired techniques into our upper division library instruction classes. And realizing that this outreach program could offer our university students opportunity for growth, we then partnered with faculty to open up Bites & Bytes as a field site for students enrolled in a freshman social work course. In this presentation we will trace the evolution of a library community outreach initiative that grew to become part of the university curriculum, review pedagogical approaches that work with elder adult learners, and relate how some of these approaches can be employed to teach students

Where Cultural and Information Literacy Meet: Serving Spanish-Speaking Library Users in Indiana

The 2000 US Census Report shows a dramatic increase in the Latino population in the state of Indiana. From 1990 to 2000 this population grew from 1.8 to 3.5 percent. Drawing from the census report, as well as local studies, Robert Aponte, Associate Professor of Sociology from IUPUI, published an eye-opening statistical report on Latino growth trends in Indiana that makes a consequential statement for Indiana libraries: Latinos want to stay. The conventional image of the transitory migrant worker is being replaced by permanent residents who are becoming part of Indiana's diverse ethnic tapestry. Because the population in Indiana is changing, libraries need to adapt to this rapidly growing group of patrons. But who are the Latinos and what are their information needs? Fundamental to serving a Latino community is understanding that they are, especially in Indiana, an at-risk community. Why Indiana libraries should strive to serve this population is best expressed in the American Library Association's Final Report of the Presidential Committee on Information Literacy

The Vigo County, Indiana, War of 1812 Bicentennial Committee: Supporting community engagement through public programming

The Vigo County, Indiana, War of 1812 Bicentennial Committee: Supporting community engagement through public programmingMay, C., Frey, S, & Nichols, D. (2011, February 20). The Vigo County, Indiana, War of 1812 Bicentennial Committee: Supporting community engagement through public programming. Peer reviewed poster presented at the Scholar Collaboration and Prospective Faculty symposium, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana

Investigation into the perceived image quality of digital technologies for photofinishing

With the shift from silver halide film to pixels, the possibilities for photofinishing have burgeoned as well. Not much more than a decade ago, photography was a process involving the recording of images on film and the printing of these images on silver halide paper. Today the majority of images are now captured digitally, and though digital silver halide certainly remains an important player in the photofinishing market, a great many images are printed at home on ink jet printers. Images are also being printed in forms other than 4 x 6 in. prints. Electrophotographic printing technology is being used to generate photo books, cards, and calendars. In addition, wide-format ink jet and, eventually, high-speed ink jet, afford still other opportunities. It is of interest, then, to understand the perceptual image quality being achieved using the various printing technologies today. The objective of this project is to evaluate the perceived image quality of ink jet and electrophotographic photo finishing relative to digital silver halide. Targets generated to resemble photo album pages, along with a variety of photo books, were used in this study. The observers for this project were selected to represent typical consumers rather than individuals who are more skilled in image evaluation. The results indicate that: the observers generally found higher value in the full-size photo books and ink jet prints relative to the electrophotographic prints and the Pocket Portfolio mini photo book; that first-person images did not rank substantially differently from third-person images—at least for images that did not contain humans; and that the photo print format had a more significant impact on the assigned value than the image content

An Analysis of the factors influencing paper selection for books of reproduced fine art printed on digital presses

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ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE CONFLICT: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE LONG-TERM DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSON IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This study is a hermeneutic investigation into the phenomenon of organizational role conflict as experienced by five long-term department chairpersons, four long-term department heads, and two former long-term department chairpersons working at universities and colleges located in Indiana, Illinois, and Massachusetts. Organizational role conflict for department chairpersons and department heads is a byproduct of their frontline manager position. By occupying a position between the collegiate and administrative branches of their institution, these managers serve as an important link in the chain of command, but suffer from ambiguous, contradictory, and competing expectations placed on them because of their hybrid status as faculty members and administrators. Over six decades of research has established organizational role conflict as elemental to the department chairperson position, yet people who occupy this position on a long-term basis are neglected in these investigations, while the conflict of department heads has not been fully examined. This study addresses these deficiencies in the research canon, as it provides an examination of the long-term frontline manager’s experience of organizational role conflict in academe. In-depth interviews and field notes were used to collect data, which were analyzed through the lenses of organizational role theory and organizational and management theory. Study findings indicate that the participants, guided by a strong sense of purpose and duty, mitigate their organizational role conflict while enacting their frontline manager role by employing strategies and embracing perspectives that reinforce their hybrid roles as scholar/educators and frontline administrators

Foliar Symptoms of Acute Ozone Injury and Exposure Response Characteristics of Select Native Perennials

Twenty seven perennial species native to the Eastern Temperate Forests Level I Ecoregion were exposed to an acute ozone (O3) treatment consisting of a target peak O3 concentration of 2.0 ppm for 30 minutes in a closed chamber environment, during the summer of 2010. Plants were evaluated for visible foliar injury symptoms and symptoms were described and photographically documented. Ten of the 27 species developed visible foliar injury in which interspecific and intraspecific response to O3 was observed. A severity index was used to compare response to acute ozone exposure for the ten species displaying visible foliar injury. Species showing visible foliar injury in descending order of severity index were Coreopsis tripteris L. (tall tickseed), Coreopsis palmata Nutt. (stiff tickseed), Penstemon cobaea Nutt. (cobaea beardtongue), Solidago nemoralis Aiton (gray goldenrod), Monarda fistulosa L. (wild bergamot), Silphium integrifolium Michx (wholeleaf rosinweed), Oligoneuron rigidum (L.) Small var. rigidum (stiff goldenrod), Rudbeckia missouriensis Engelm. ex C.L. Boynt.(Missouri orange coneflower), Penstemon pallidus Small (pale beardtongue), and Solidago speciosa Nutt. (showy goldenrod). A range of symptoms was observed including red to purple stipple and tan to yellow or brown flecking; bronzing, leaf margin necrosis, and bifacial necrotic lesions. Subsequently, in June of 2011, four native Coreopsis species (C. lanceolata, C. palmata, C. tinctoria, and C. tripteris), were exposed to four acute ozone (O3) treatment levels with target peak O3 concentrations of 1.2, 1.7, 2.2, and 2.7 ppm, for 30 minutes in a closed chamber environment. Severity index was used as the criterion for comparing ozone susceptibilities among species. All four species showed foliar injury symptoms following the highest target peak exposure level (2.7 ppm). Two of the four species (Coreopsis palmata and C. tripteris) exhibited foliar injury symptoms at the lowest target peak exposure level (1.2 ppm). Symptoms varied among species in the study but were generally uniform within each taxon. Coreopsis lanceolata showed the highest degree of ozone tolerance relative to the other three species in the study. Both Coreopsis palmata and C. tripteris developed visible foliar symptoms at the lowest treatment level (1.2 ppm) indicating ozone susceptibility relative to the other species