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

Flipped Out: Teaching New Pharmacy Students Drug Literature Searching and Evaluation Using Online Instruction, Mini Lecture, and Active Learning

This poster will discuss the efforts of liaison librarians to re-design and deliver a flipped class on drug literature searching and evaluation collaboratively with faculty so as to strengthen students’ ability to answer drug related inquiries and evaluate literature in a systematic manner, to develop core information competencies, and to actively engage students in classroom for better learning outcomes

What\u27s Your Research Personality? A New Way of Engaging Students in Resource and Service Discovery Through a Homegrown Quiz App

How can libraries push resource and service information to students in engaging ways? Influenced by social media personality quizzes, we designed a questionnaire-style app that uses learning preferences and personality traits to connect students with the library resources they need most. This LOEX 2022 session will demonstrate how libraries can use innovative approaches with their existing resources to draw students in. We will use our Research Personality Quiz as a starting point to discuss design approaches for similar projects and explore the technical challenges that may be encountered (and overcome) in creating and launching similar types of quiz apps. Participants will: Learn about personality research and how it can provide a different approach to defining user groups and needs. Be able to apply an approach to align their library\u27s existing resources and services to student personality traits. Understand how academic libraries can use existing technology to push content more proactively to students

Motivating Faculty to Integrate the Library: We Can Work Together!

Faculty may be unaware of how many library resources are available to support their course assignments. Additionally their assignments may not be designed in a way that makes the best use of library resources. “Shopping list” assignments may cause students to spend too much time searching and not enough time engaging with the material and developing higher order thinking skills. Two Wayne State Librarians share their experiences in developing a workshop for faculty to help them integrate the library in a meaningful way, to support student learning and development of information literacy skills. Using persistent linking to embed articles, book chapters, database search results, and library instructional videos in assignment descriptions, faculty can learn to include library content in a way that will encourage students’ use and analysis of appropriate scholarly information. Though the short term goals of the faculty workshop are to integrate the library, the long term goal and potential outcome is to collaborate with faculty as pedagogical partners. Participants in this program will engage in a series of interactive tasks that will enable them to construct a plan for a similar workshop tailored to their faculty. Participants will identify a venue and partner for a similar workshop in their own institution, strategies to motivate their faculty to attend, and appropriate faculty-focused workshop content

Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Teach Research Skills: Electronic Symbiosis

This article discusses faculty-librarian collaboration to integrate technology in a course that focuses on teaching empirical research methodologies and library research skills to elementary and early childhood education graduate students. Vygotsky’s theory, standards in teacher education, and information literacy standards form the conceptual framework that supports this collaboration. The purpose and procedures of this collaboration, as well as student, faculty, and librarian outcomes, are discussed. This present collaboration on bibliographic instruction and the use of Blackboard courseware is framed within the context of past history of collaboration and future plans to expand this collaboration

Open Access Textbook—Access, Quality, Use

Veronica Bielat, Learning & Research Support Librarian, Wayne State Libraries Ariel Levi, Senior Lecturer of Management, School of Business Veronica Bielat provides an introduction to the open source textbook movement, including providers and current trends. Ariel Levi discusses the pro’s and con’s of his adoption of a Flat World Knowledge open source textbook for his MGT2530 course

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

Re-thinking Information Literacy Instruction with the ACRL Framework

As academic librarians transition from a teaching and learning paradigm for Information Literacy (IL) that is reliant on the ACRL Competency Standards to the new ACRL Framework, how can librarians support and learn from each other as a community during this transition? This program will share the examples of reframing successful, standards-based IL instruction for two discipline-focused research assignments to a framework-based approach. Attendees will participate in a hands-on activity that helps them strategize how to re-think existing instruction to integrate the threshold concepts into instruction, and discuss options for assessing student learning as part of a new instruction paradigm

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