The Research Consultation: What Do You Do When You\u27re Meeting with a Student?

Research consultations are individualized research sessions tailored to meet a student\u27s particular information need. This infographic outlines six best practices for reference librarians or other information professionals providing research consultations to an undergraduate population

LOEX 2012 Conference Report: Columbus, OH

Summary of plenary and breakout sessions of the 40th annual LOEX conference in Columbus, Ohio on May 3-5, 2012

Becoming Part of the Conversation through Assessment of Undergraduate Library Internships

Any recent attendee at an academic library conference would likely note the large number of panels, posters, presentations, and roundtables that focus on libraries partnering and collaborating with other campus stakeholders, such as admissions, international student services, the writing center, and so on. Our library is no different. Gettysburg College is a four-year liberal arts institution located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with an enrollment of 2,600 students. Musselman Library serves its campus population with thirteen librarians and nineteen staff members. In a small college environment, collaborating with other campus stakeholders is not only desirable, it is essential if the library wants to move forward with any service or initiative. After decades of carefully developing relationships, cross-department and cross-division collaboration is an expectation and the norm, and the library has a reputation of being a strong partner. Colleagues across campus are open and receptive to new ideas that mean better serving students. Indeed, forming partnerships with stakeholders is part of the library’s current strategic plan.2 It is only through strategic partnerships with faculty and other administrators on campus that the library will be able to gain traction on its own goals around information literacy, diversity and inclusion, and communicating the library’s value with assessment data. The library’s participation in the third cohort (2015–16) of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Assessment in Action (AiA) program enabled the library to partner with colleagues in our Office of Institutional Analysis and the Center for Career Development in order to assess the library’s long-standing, but never formally assessed, undergraduate library internship program. Through this distinctive program, the library has provided internships since 1998 for over 100 participants who have gone on to careers in libraries, archives, museums, and related fields

More than “Just an Intern”: Undergraduate Internships in Academic Libraries

This presentation reports on the findings of a 2016 assessment of undergraduate internships at Musselman Library. The presentation will include the impact of these high-impact experiences on previous interns’ development of career goals, acceptance to and preparation for graduate education, and their early career

You’ve Gotta Read This! Connecting with Readers at an Academic Library

At our small, liberal arts college, the library has developed a vibrant browsing collection of popular fiction and nonfiction titles in both print and ebook formats. Additionally, we have developed extensive outreach and programming initiatives to support the recreational reading habits and intellectual engagement of our students and faculty outside of the classroom. Some of these efforts include an annual summer reading booklet, an online featured reader column, and first year and other thematic reading and discussion groups. Learn how librarians on our campus continue to successfully promote recreational reading in support of lifelong learning

Undergraduate Library Internships and Professional Success

This poster reports on an assessment completed of former undergraduate library interns to explore the impact their internship had on the development of career goals, acceptance to and preparation for graduate education, and their early career. Through an online survey (n= 45) and six semi-structured telephone interviews, respondents reported a positive impact on the above areas

Undergraduate Library Internships at Musselman Library, Gettysburg College

In 2015-2016, Musselman Library at Gettysburg College participated in Cohort 3 of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Assessment in Action program. This report outlines an assessment completed of former undergraduate library interns in order to explore the impact their internship experience had on the development of career goals, acceptance to and preparation for graduate education, and their early career. Through an online survey (n= 45) and six semi-structured telephone interviews, respondents reported a positive impact on the above areas

Student as Expert: Peer Learning to Support Digital Scholarship in the Classroom

Libraries and librarians have adopted a variety of approaches to support digital humanities (DH). Rooted in a small college environment, this poster will detail a peer-learning model adopted by one library to support classroom digital projects with trained students, who have completed an 8-week summer digital scholarship fellowship. Similar to other peer learning models in libraries to expand instruction and reference services, trained students can expand a library’s support for DH by teaching in the classroom and providing consultations, enhance their own digital and presentation skills, and support student learning as both expert and peer. This is a modified PowerPoint version of the poster, which had been created in the digital iPoster system

Current measurements in electrospinning

Electrospinning provides an economical method of producing nanofibers. The current carried by the main spinning jet is found to be one of the factors in determining the diameter of the fiber product. However, current sources such as the corona discharge and secondary jets will lead to a systematic overestimation of the actual current value. In this research, experiments with different configurations are set up to investigate the influence of various parameters on the measured current. It is noticed that the measured current is nearly independent on the flow rate of the solution and the external cover. A large amount of current is detected even the syringe is empty when the experiments are carried out using conductive needle. By substituting the standard electrode with penetrating electrode, the current dropped to zero when the syringe was empty. An average of 0.26E-6 Amps reduction on the amount of measured current is observed when the syringe is filled with methylene chloride. In all cases that non-conductive Teflon needle is applied, a significant lower current is observed. However, experiments conducted using 12 wt% PCL polymer solution show nearly undetectable current value in all configurations. For the current behavior on outer collector plate, the measured current on the outer plate are extremely low regardless of needle type, electrode type, and syringe content conditions