Copyright and Fair Use for Graduating Studio Art Majors

This lesson was designed as a part of a seminar for art majors preparing work for their Senior Show and is intended to inform students preparing to begin careers as practicing artists or art educators. The lesson incorporates a short lecture on copyright and fair use, a class discussion about copyright and artistic practice based on preparatory readings, an in-class research exercise of art copyright case studies, and student presentations on their findings and opinions. In addition to raising awareness of copyright and the CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, this lesson is particularly apt for helping students grapple with the ethical complexities surrounding the artistic use of other artists’ work

Assessing History Student Research Activity and Learning Outcomes Through the Understanding Library Impacts Project

In an era when academic libraries increasingly need to justify their budgets and impact to campus administrators, there is a growing necessity for helpful assessment tools. Engaging in this current trend of “demonstrating value,” this liberal arts college sought to explore areas of impact through a focused study on one particular department with known high library activity. For the past two years the library and the history department have partnered with an outside project called Understanding Library Impacts. Beginning with a beta-test of a quantitative and qualitative survey tool in upper-level courses and later expanding to history courses at all levels, the project sought to measure library activity for research projects in these courses and connect this activity to student learning outcomes. The data informed us about student usage of “traditional” and electronic library resources, as well as discovery tools, facilities and services. Through it, students highlighted their “most valued” resources and described the benefits and problems they encountered there. Open-ended questions explored student-identified learning objectives and methods for overcoming research challenges. The survey also explored various means of mapping this activity onto broader learning outcomes at the departmental and institutional level. This poster will share what the library learned from this collaborative process and highlight one way that libraries can link their assessment data with departmental and institutional learning goals

Analyzing Library Marketing & Communication Efforts at Liberal Arts Colleges

Marketing & communication in academic libraries is an area that has received growing attention in recent years, with many institutions devoting increased staff time to these efforts; however, most literature focuses on projects at larger institutions. This study surveyed small liberal arts college libraries’ usage of social media & other promotional materials for outreach, communication, & marketing, as well as the staffing levels needed for this work, & documents how it impacted practice at one liberal arts college

Leveraging the Google mentality : 1Search and the new (inter)face of library discovery

1Search is a discovery tool that allows users to explore a large and diverse range of library content (e.g., books, e-books, full-text articles, other digital collections)—all from a single search box. Librarians plan to leverage the simplicity of 1Search as a library gateway to open up new opportunities for teaching information literacy

RISS Review: Sam Francis Online Catalog

Review of RISS Review: Sam Francis Online Catalog, Reviewed February 2019 by Jessica Hronchek, Associate Professor and Performing and Visual Arts Librarian Van Wylen Library, Hope College [email protected]

Undergraduate Research Assistants at Hope College

In response to changing desk traffic and shifting librarian responsibilities, Van Wylen Library at Hope College made the decision to change its Research Desk model to one in which undergraduate Research Assistants primarily staff the desk and research librarians are available on call. To best support this modification, the Research Desk supervisors implemented an improved hiring procedure, an updated training program, and a new referral process for research questions at the desk. Initial assessment shows that the model generally works, though we continue to try to improve Research Assistants’ judgment on when to refer questions to librarians and to foster a collaborative dynamic between student Research Assistants and librarians

Assessment à la Carte : Using Small-scale Citation Analysis Projects to Shape Library Instruction

ABSTRACT: Intrigued by the possibilities of citation analysis, but uncertain how to create an achievable small scale project using a methodology that is traditionally rather labor intensive? This session will discuss two different projects in which citation analysis was used as a means for shaping library instruction for specific courses. By examining particularly students\u27 website choices, the presenters were able to make informed changes to their sessions based on the feedback from citation analysis. FULL DESCRIPTION: Citation analysis has been a long established and valued means of assessing the effectiveness of a library\u27s collection effectiveness and its impact on student research behavior. This session will discuss two different ways in which citation analysis was used as a method for shaping library instruction for specific courses. The first presenter will share how he expanded the standard practice of collecting student research topics by asking students to cite, annotate, and defend their “two top sources”— all before their first library session. From this, he was able to not only prepare relevant search examples (as per usual), but more importantly, enter the session with fresh insights to students’ existing research habits and a greater understanding of their source selection and evaluation skills. For her project, the second presenter analyzed the source choices in student art history survey research papers, particularly the students\u27 website selections. The data was used to inform and craft a more nuanced discussion of website evaluation in the library session for the course and to measure the impact of a new discovery service. In both cases, the librarians were able to make informed changes to their sessions based on the feedback from citation analysis. While recognizing that broadly applicable citation data is more likely to be collected in larger, multi-course or multi-institutional projects, this talk will demonstrate the place that small-scale, ad hoc citation analysis can have in the crafting of library instruction sessions and assessment of student research skills, for those looking for achievable projects at their own institutions

Something Creative Here: An Arts-Informed Discussion of Sustainability in Academic Libraries

Sponsored by the MiALA Fine Arts Interest Group, this panel will engage with issues of sustainability as informed by an arts-focused perspective. Individual panelists will present case studies from music collection development, an interdisciplinary information literacy assignment anchored in the music department, and an embedded qualitative research project with choreographers in order to discuss how the arts can inform a more diverse understanding of sustainability in academic libraries