Enterprising liaisons: Evolving engagement

Liaisonship in academic libraries continues to evolve and librarians need to engage their entrepreneurial spirit to remain relevant in this rapidly changing and dynamic environment. Liaisons frequently have to balance responsibility for multiple academic departments and/or student populations such as veterans, athletes, or international students, with service and scholarship activities. Enterprising librarians can stay ahead of the curve by building a profile of the academic departments or student populations they serve and developing an engagement plan for the year. Building profiles is a research-gathering and reflective process that can provide insight into how liaisons can build relationships with their departments or student populations. The profiles then provide the foundation for generating an annual engagement plan. Plans consider outreach to students, faculty, and other campus partners, and thoughtfully map out a course of action. Engagement plans outline broad ideas and then break them into actionable items with deadlines. Planning ahead and balancing liaison workload can increase the likelihood of successful engagement throughout the year

Information Overload in Today's Digital Environment

Presentation given to Miami University Alumni on June 13, 2015 as a part of Alumni Weekend's Alumni College

Using LibGuides 2.0 & Video Creation Tools to Provide Distance Learning

How do we ensure students have access to library instruction and librarian support when they’re in an online course? Learn tips for using LibGuides and video creation tools to offer information literacy and library instruction on a subject or course specific level. We will share our experiences with LibGuides version 2.0 including establishing standards and best practices to better engage students and personalize services. Participants will learn how to utilize LibGuides statistics and Google Analytics to analyze usage and ensure relevancy of your guides. Gain an understanding of various video creation tools such as Jing and Camtasia to create engaging, accessible distance education tutorials. Finally, we will share our strategy for creating subject and course LibGuides to meet the specific needs of students in online courses

Using Visual Literacy to Demonstrate the Impact of Technological Space

Learn how we assessed the visual literacy skills of students in relation to the use of our technological spaces in the Libraries. We will share the rubric we created to assess student poster presentations at the annual Undergraduate Research Forum. Results from 2014 will be presented as well as the implementation plan for 2015

Visual Literacy Assessment: Engaging Students to Improve Success

Does library engagement of students contribute to their success? This poster will highlight our study of the impact of library services on the development of visual literacy skills. Our research process and results will be shared, including next steps to promote use of services that directly impact visual literacy

Steering Change In Liaisonship: A Reverse Engineering Approach

The following recounts the process of redefining and rethinking a liaison librarian program at Miami University’s main campus in Oxford, OH by utilizing a reverse engineering approach. This undertaking was precipitated in large part by our strategic planning process that highlighted the need for additional assessment practices in order to provide evidence of impact. Miami is an R2 research university with a focus on undergraduate education. Approximately 17,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students are enrolled at the Oxford campus. The system has 36 librarians with a little more than half serving in liaison roles. Our process is described as a means for most other institutions to reverse engineer their liaison models but our framing of liaison work may not work for institutions with dissimilar characteristics

The Ingredients For Assessing A Personal Librarian Program For First-Year Students

The idea of a Personal Librarian has gained considerable traction, with a notable amount of colleges and universities using Personal Librarians to increase and/or supplement outreach efforts to first-year students. Personal Librarianship aims to foster relationships beyond the point-of-need with a focus on sustained communication between the librarian and students. As the landscape shifts toward the demonstration of value and impact, assessment of a Personal Librarian program seeks to answer several important questions: How do we determine if this program is a valuable use of resources? How do we know if this program is impactful to students? This recipe will help you to assess your program with data you already collect to determine if your efforts are making a difference

LibGuides Administration: Roadmap To Engaging Content

Libraries purchase LibGuides software in the effort to provide all users with easy access to engaging library content. Active administration of the software is a vital component in realizing this goal. In the summer of 2014, Miami University Libraries migrated from LGv1 to LGv2. A small group had traditionally overseen the administrative aspects of the LibGuides software that included managing accounts and troubleshooting. The migration to LGv2 created a unique opportunity for the group to re-evaluate their administration and take a more active role in implementing a broader vision of the use of LibGuides in order to meet the needs of faculty, staff, and students

Enterprising Liaisons: Evolving Engagement

Liaisonship in academic libraries continues to evolve and librarians need to engage their entrepreneurial spirit to remain relevant in this rapidly changing and dynamic environment. Liaisons frequently have to balance responsibility for multiple academic departments and/or student populations such as veterans, athletes, or international students, with service and scholarship activities. Enterprising librarians can stay ahead of the curve by building a profile of the academic departments or student populations they serve and developing an engagement plan for the year. Building profiles is a research-gathering and reflective process that can provide insight into how liaisons can build relationships with their departments or student populations. The profiles then provide the foundation for generating an annual engagement plan. Plans consider outreach to students, faculty, and other campus partners, and thoughtfully map out a course of action. Engagement plans outline broad ideas and then break them into actionable items with deadlines. Planning ahead and balancing liaison workload can increase the likelihood of successful engagement throughout the year

Corrected QT Interval in Children With Brain Death

Prolongation of the QT interval is a well-documented finding in adults with severe brain injury. However, QT prolongation has not been well documented in the pediatric population with brain injury. Our objective was to determine the range of QT intervals in children with the diagnosis of brain death, hypothesizing that the QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTc) is longer in this population than in a normal population. All previously healthy children (<18 years) dying in our hospital from 1995 to 2007 with a diagnosis of brain death and at least one electrocardiogram (ECG) with normal anatomy by echocardiogram were included. Admission details, past medical and family history, demographic data, and laboratory data were collected. The QT and preceding RR intervals from three sinus beats on a standard 12-lead ECG were measured. The QTc was calculated with the Bazett method, and the values were averaged. Thirty-seven patients met inclusion criteria. Five had event histories concerning for possible underlying rhythm disturbances; data analysis was performed with and without these patients. The QTc data were normally distributed. The mean (SD) QTc for the entire cohort was 452 (61) ms. Excluding the five patients, it was 449 (62) ms. On multivariate analysis, sex (QTc female < male) and hypokalemia were associated with QTc prolongation. QTc in children with brain death is normally distributed but significantly longer than QTc in normal children. Until rapid genetic testing for channelopathies is universally available, our findings suggest that potential pediatric cardiac donors with isolated prolongation of the QTc in this setting may be acceptable in the absence of other exclusionary criteria