Taking Care of Business (Before Class): Information Literacy in a Flipped Classroom

This case study presents the revision of an upper-division one-shot instruction session to include an online tutorial that introduces students to business information sources prior to the library session. In order to complete the assignment and prepare for the library session, students are prompted to find specific information using the given resource, and then consider questions regarding the information retrieved. Students in a 3000-level business writing class responded positively to the activity while providing a good amount of material to inform further iterations of the assignment.</p

Flip Your One-Shot Instruction Session with Survey Software

This chapter describes how to create a simple "choose your own business adventure" program using Qualtrics or Google Forms to "flip" an information literacy instruction session.</div

Browsing the Intangible: Does Visibility Lead to Increased Use?

Library collections have become fractured as increased acquisition of ebooks has created hybrid print and digital collections. These developments have implications for user awareness of the most current items in the collection and their ability to understand their relationship to print collections, due to ebooks&rsquo; absence in the physical library space. At the William M. White Business Library at the University of Colorado, Boulder, collocated displays are deployed in the print stacks to promote awareness of ebook collections and enable browsing and serendipitous discovery. This project revealed the difficulty of assessing ebook collections and their promotion when many platforms are involved.</p

5 things to know about generative text AI tools... that might be outdated or upgraded by the time of publication

This brief newsletter article describes how academic librarians can begin learning about and using generative text AI tools such as ChatGPT.</p

There Are No Right or Wrong Answers: Improving the User Experience One Usability Test at a Time

This session will teach attendees how to assess and improve user experience for library e-resources and related services using task-based usability tests. The presenters will detail their tips and lessons learned after conducting more than 30 usability tests with students to evaluate 8 different eBook platforms.</p

Users' Choice: eBook Platforms

This session will explore how inconsistencies across academic ebook platforms impact the user experience. The presenters will share results from usability tests that examined the same ebook on multiple platforms to gage user expectations and identify preferences. We will offer suggestions for improvements based on our results.</p

Telling Us What We Don’t Know: Evaluating User Experience Across Different Ebook Platforms

Libraries invest a great deal of time and money in our ebook collections, so it&rsquo;s important to purchase resources that best meet user needs and expectations. This session will compare and contrast the results of two comparative analyses of academic ebook platforms. The first analysis compared ebooks across multiple platforms and evaluated features such as metadata, navigation, and search functionality from a librarian&rsquo;s perspective. The second analysis tested the usability of academic ebook platforms from the student&rsquo;s perspective. Both studies provided valuable insights about user preferences and revealed strengths and weaknesses for each platform. The presenters will share specific findings from both studies, but emphasize that user preferences may vary based on institution. This session will focus on offering techniques for evaluating ebooks from the user perspective and suggestions for incorporating this type of data into your collection development decisions.</p

Ultra-lite or Glamping? A Comparative Analysis of e-Journal Platform “Amenities"

Scholarly journals are frequently available on publisher websites, repositories, and aggregators. Scholars expect basic metadata, search functionality, and aesthetic design, but do more advanced amenities enhance their reading experience? This session will discuss the results of a comparative analysis of e-journals and describe the amenities found on different platforms.</p

Fast Casual Marketing Strategies

Business students often have limited or no access to library subscription resources postgraduation. This one-shot instruction session is designed to help shift students away from reliance on subscription resources to freely available sources. This activity introduces students to freely available information sources and asks them to consider how this information could be used in their future workplace to target a particular demographic in a given location.</p

The impact of physical book displays on business e-book use

This study examined the effectiveness of a physical display for increasing use of business e-books. The authors created three topical displays and compared the average use of the display titles to the average use of titles in the general collection. The overall rate of use for display e-books (12.3%) was lower than the average rate of use for nondisplay e-books (14.4%), suggesting that displays are not effective tools for increasing business e-book use. However, one display had a significantly higher average rate of e-book use (26.6%), suggesting that factors other than visibility may affect e-book use