The Course Guide: Creating a Culinary Masterpiece “To Go”

Librarians operate in a multimodal environment, where Web 2.0 applications allow us to easily create multimedia materials for students, yet course guides frequently follow the print pathfinder model of merely listing resources. In this interactive workshop, attendees will cook up a recipe to transform online course guides into dynamic 24/7 learning tools. Following discussion on best practices for visual design, review of course resource materials, and assignment analysis, we will apply design and pedagogical principles to create a framework, using the LibGuides model, for a dynamic course-specific guide that enhances learning as it supports the goals of a specific assignment

Creating Instruction To Go : Maximizing Resources, Maximizing Impact

Faced with large scale instruction demands, librarians are turning to technology to maximize staff resources and extend the impact of instruction. In this presentation, participants will learn how to translate classroom instructional content into learning objects in order to make learning available to multiple users on the go. The authors will engage the audience in a series of presentations, demonstrations, interactive tasks, and discussion in order to learn how to create effective learning objects. This presentation was delivered at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 14th National Conference on March 14, 2009 in Seattle, WA

Engaging Faculty in Information Literacy

How can librarians engage faculty in information literacy? This session demonstrates how a faculty workshop can be used as a strategy to motivate change in how faculty design research assignments. We will discuss using current research to draw faculty into the information literacy conversation, perform assignment analysis to illuminate the “burdens” placed on the student, and illustrate how assignment re-design can mitigate the subsequent student struggles that may lead to patchwork papers or plagiarism

Connecting First-Year Students with the Library: Wayne State University\u27s Initiative

The session reports on two institutional initiatives for connecting first-year students with the library. The first project, situated in a research university environment, Wayne State University, utilized technology to create a first-year webpage (http://www.lib.wayne.edu/sites/fye/) that brought together library information and resources with relevant university-wide services. The presenters begin with a demonstration of the webpage, discussing the impetus for the project, the literature review and other research that went into the design and development. They report on the findings of the usability studies conducted with the webpage. Using a think-aloud protocol reviewed by the university’s institutional review board, students completed a series of tasks that were screen captured for later analysis. As they verbalized their mental processes they were recorded and investigators took notes on their actions and comments. The assessment revealed the success of the page in comparison to the existing homepage in simplifying students’ information seeking. Also highlighted are findings related to students’ technological skills and abilities to apply the information-seeking process. The session concludes with a look towards future plans for the page. This presentation was given at the 29th annual First-Year Experience Conference in Denver, CO on Feb 12-14, 2010

First-Year Student Initiatives at an Urban Research University

At a time when universities and colleges are placing emphasis on the first-year experience, there has been an effort on the part of the libraries to address this audience with a customized approach. Involvement with academic orientation programs is one method of reaching these first year students, and as one step the Wayne State University Library System has established a presence in the university’s iStart program (http://www.istart.wayne.edu/). In the large environment of a research university with over 30,000 students, technology has also been employed as an efficient way to establish a connection between first year students and the library. As one response the Wayne State University Library System created a webpage designed with the needs of the first-year student in mind (http://www.lib.wayne.edu/fye/). This gateway, which supports the University’s First Year Experience program, provides a “one-stop shopping” environment for beginning students by bringing together library information and resources with university-wide services. This presentation was given at the ALA Annual 2009 National Conference in Chicago, Illinois

Ready, Set, Get Published: Tips for Scholarly Writing Success

Publishing scholarly articles and books has many benefits. For librarians, it can help establish a professional identity and contribute to professional growth. For the library community, it is an effective means for sharing ideas and experiences that contribute to improving library services and managing the challenges we encounter in our work environment. This program features three presenters who will share their experiences participating in the scholarly publishing process. The first presenter will discuss how to locate publishing opportunities, develop an idea into an article, and select a journal. The second presenter will address the peer-review process and provide an insider’s view of what journal reviewers look for when evaluating a manuscript, common errors that writers make, and recommendations that increase the likelihood that a manuscript will be accepted for publication in a journal. Finally, the third presenter will cover developing a book concept into a publishing success through practical advice and lessons learned from a first-time book editor. This presentation was delivered on November 6, 2009 at the Michigan Library Association (MLA) 118th Annual Conference in Lansing, Michigan

Aspects of Augustana and Swedish America: Essays in honor of Dr. Conrad Bergendoff on his 100th Year

Table of Contents: Introduction -- Emmet E. Eklund / The Mosaic of Augustana’s Swedish Lutheran Origins -- Maria Erling / Molding Ministers to Fit Congregations: Religious Leadership Among New England’s Swedes -- H. Arnold Barton / Conrad Bergendoff and the Swedish-American Church Language Controversy of the 1920s -- Elder M. Lindahl / The Troublesome Language Question -- Ann Boaden / Weighing the Stars and Hearing the Word: Conrad Bergendoff’s Idea of Christian Higher Education at Augustana College and Theological Seminary -- Mark A. Granquist / Conrad Bergendoff and the LCA Merger of 1962 -- Dag Blanck / North Stars and Vasa Orders: On the Relationship Between Sweden and Swedish American -- Bernhard Erling / The Fourth R--Religious Education in Sweden and the USA -- Judith Belan / Bibliography of the Published Writings of Dr. Conrad Bergendoff, 1963-1995https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/ahsbooks/1016/thumbnail.jp

Psychological safety, job crafting, and employability: A comparison between permanent and temporary workers

Employability is one of the leading challenges of the contemporary organizational environment. While much is known about the positive effects of job crafting on employees’ employability in general, little is known about its effects when employment contacts are different. Differentiating between temporary and permanent workers, in this article we investigate how in the environment of psychological safety, these two types of employees engage in job crafting, and how job crafting is related to their perceived employability. Data were collected among two samples, consisting of temporary agency workers (N = 527), and permanent employees (N = 796). Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses indicated a different pattern of results for the two groups: for permanent employees, increasing challenging job demands was positively, and decreasing hindering job demands was negatively related to perceived employability. Moreover, psychological safety was related to all job crafting dimensions. For agency workers, only increasing structural job resources was related to employability, while psychological safety was negatively associated with crafting hindrances. These findings suggest that a climate of psychological safety is particularly effective for permanent employees in fostering job crafting and employabilit