Veterans Among Us 2014

This slideshow features veterans connected to The College at Brockport from the Civil War to the present day. Updated for 2014

Veterans Among Us 2016

This slideshow features veterans connected to The College at Brockport from the Civil War to the present day. Updated for 2016

Veterans Among Us

This slideshow features veterans connected to The College at Brockport from the Civil War to the present day

Veterans Among Us 2013

This slideshow features veterans connected to The College at Brockport from the Civil War to the present day. Updated for 2013

LibGuides Guided: How Research and Collaboration Leads to Success

Come learn how librarians at a public Master’s granting institution with a large undergraduate population upgraded to LibGuides v2. Beyond migrating our content, we took the opportunity to revamp our guides using the latest research in usability and guide design. Our poster will display our current design, the research supporting each of our design choices, information about how we created our own template, categorized our guides, and planned our upgrade

Object Lessons: 3D Printing and Inter-professional Collaboration Between the Library and the Literature Classroom

While the digital revolution has been readily embraced by the hard sciences, adoption by the humanities has been somewhat more delayed. A number of factors have prevented wide-scale inclusion of technology into humanities coursework including, but not limited to, a lack of training, resources or support for professional development. The new Makerspace at the Drake Memorial Library provided the chance to unite 3D printing technology, pedagogy, literary criticism, information literacy, and historical context into a children’s literature course at the College at Brockport. Students were charged to locate a single object from a work of children’s literature and to analyze its importance to the plot of the novel or the development of a character. Selected objects were then 3D printed by the library Makerspace. Students then met with a librarian to reinforce threshold concepts set forth by ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education through a unique gamified Harry Potter - themed lesson. Students were able to successfully synthesize the relationship between object and text, culminating in the display of their objects in the library along with their written assignments

Measuring Information Service Outcomes: A Tale of Two Libraries

“The MISO (Measuring Information Service Outcomes) Survey is a web-based quantitative survey designed to measure how faculty, students, and staff view library and computing services in higher education” (http://www.misosurvey.org/). Fifty-five colleges will be using it in 2016 to collect user input regarding library and IT services. It has been administered at the College at Brockport every two years since 2008. SUNY Geneseo began using the tool a few years later. The survey assesses use, importance and satisfaction for a sample of campus groups that can include undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff. The survey has helped to track changing technologies and resource use and can be used to determine service gaps (e.g., need to increase wireless coverage or improve quiet space, etc.). This poster will compare how the MISO instrument is administered and used at two public four-year comprehensive colleges in New York State. It will focus on the populations included, survey methodology, results, and how responses have been disseminated. The MISO online comparison tool will also be highlighted as a way to benchmark with peers. Suggested improvements to better use MISO data as part of assessing library impact and to ‘close the loop’ will also be included

Growing a Culture of Assessment at the Drake Memorial Library

The Drake Memorial Library is 1 of 75 libraries across North America to participate in ACRL’s Assessment in Action program. The 14-month program entails the development and implementation of an action learning project examining the library’s impact on student success and contribution to assessment activities on campus. Brockport’s four person team includes members from outside of the library to foster cross-campus collaboration. This poster describes the program and the goals, methods, results and conclusions of the Drake Memorial Library\u27s action learning project

Antiques and Hidden Treasures

Robert Meringolo has been a leading figure in fine arts, antiques and collectibles for more than 25 years. On Tuesday, May 17th, 2016, he lead a discussion on Antiques and Hidden Treasures at 7 pm in McCue Auditorium, Liberal Arts Building, which was followed by Special Presentation and Reception at 8 pm. This event was co-sponsored by the Friends of Drake Memorial Library and the Western Monroe Historical Society. Videography by Kenneth R. Wierzbowski, MLS