The Library in Your Course: Engaging Students in an LMS

You want the librarian to teach your students everything they need to know about the library and how to do research in one 50 minute instruction session in which this is the first time they\u27re meeting, there is limited use of technology, and their papers are due in 10 weeks? Any instructor knows that this is not going to be a successful instruction session, but there is a way to increase the likelihood that the librarian and your students will have a more successful interaction: embed the librarian and the library in your LMS! Benefits include: building a rapport with the librarian prior to their in-person visit, flipping the classroom with library tutorials and modules, introducing the students to library resources at their point of need, and reducing cognitive load of students during an in-person session.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1033/thumbnail.jp

Finding the Missing Piece: Communicating Library Value to Complete the Assessment Puzzle

Library assessment is like putting together a puzzle with many pieces, and some of these pieces can be forgotten or even lost. This presentation provides attendees with the missing puzzle piece they need to begin using their assessment data to actively engage stakeholders through library value conversations. The presenter will establish the importance of communicating assessment findings and library impact to stakeholders, and arm attendees with effective communication tools and strategies for communicating library value at their institution

Transformative Learning: Changing ESL Students’ Research Methods through the Examination of the Processes of Information Creation

ACRL Information Literacy Frame: Information Creation as a Process Discipline: Arts & Humanities Subject: English as a Second Language Learning Theories: Transformative Learning; Constructivism Special Populations: English Language Learner

Take the Bull by the Horns: Combatting Bullshit in Academic Libraries

This poster will discuss what is meant by “bullish*t” in libraries, as defined in a seminal talk given by Jane Schmidt in a 2018 keynote at the Canadian Association for Professional and Academic Librarians. The presenter will identify various types of BS perpetuated and created in libraries, highlighting such concepts as “innovation,” “leadership,” and “(ir)relevance.” The presenter seeks to answer the question is BS ever beneficial to the library and it’s organizational culture?” Finally, the poster will discuss specific strategies for combating BS in one’s own library, including overcoming the cult of busy . Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own libraries and their own practice in order to engage with each other about the culture we create in libraries, and the positives and negatives we encounter. Although this poster has an academic library perspective, BS is a common situation in many organizational cultures, thus it may appeal to those who work in other types of libraries.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1032/thumbnail.jp

Talent Management and New Trajectories: Preparing and Retaining Early Career Librarians

Presented at ACRL 2017, Baltimore, Maryland This poster addresses various strategies in successfully navigating the transition from LIS programs to entry level academic library employment. Comparing and contrasting qualitative early career librarian survey data with the ARL SPEC Kit 344: Talent Management, in which on-boarding and succession planning practices are discussed at the administrative level, visitors gain insight to common challenges and opportunities, including: workplace integration, communicating competency levels, evaluative criteria, professional development planning, and more.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1031/thumbnail.jp

Don\u27t Go it Alone: The Restorative Power of Peer Relationships in Mid-career Librarianship

Librarian career trajectories are varied and unique, but the cultivation of nurturing peer relationships among library professionals can prove essential on the road to professional and personal fulfillment. Far from a work distraction, the intentional building and maintaining of personal relationships can be truly professional acts. In this chapter, we discuss the ways in which our relationships with peer librarians have helped us identify and unlock opportunities, grow intellectually, prevent boredom and mid-career stagnation, and resist the diminishing effects of burnout. Through the informal communities of practice we have forged for ourselves, we have been introduced to new ideas and inspired to take on challenges and experiment professionally. We have found trusted sounding boards and collaborators and, at times, support for making tough decisions about career opportunities to pursue (or not). We have learned that accepting the support of others makes us stronger and more resilient than we are alone and that genuine care for each other as whole persons contributes to both professional and personal growth

A Survey of Practitioner’s Knowledge of Psychiatric Medication Costs

Introduction. Escalating medical costs continue to be an issue facing contemporary medicine. One factor contributing to this escalation may be physicians’ knowledge of medication costs. As physicians increasingly face opportunities to treat a variety of symptoms and conditions in a single patient, including co-morbid psychiatric disorders or complications, accurate knowledge of medication costs becomes increasingly important. Methods. Resident and attending physicians (N = 16) across the disciplines of internal medicine, psychiatry, and combined internal medicine/psychiatry from a large, mid-western medical school were surveyed on the costs of several medications that are used to manage physical and psychiatric symptoms. Results. Differences were found in the perceived estimated cost of medications among practitioners particularly with specialty internal medicine training as compared to those with additional psychiatric training/experience. Trends also were noted across practitioners with psychiatric and internal medicine/psychiatry training. Conclusions. The breadth of training and experience can affect accuracy in estimating anticipated costs of medication regimens

Attenuation of acoustic waves in glacial ice and salt domes

Two classes of natural solid media (glacial ice and salt domes) are under consideration as media in which to deploy instruments for detection of neutrinos with energy >1e18 eV. Though insensitive to 1e11 to 1e16 eV neutrinos for which observatories (e.g., AMANDA and IceCube) that utilize optical Cherenkov radiation detectors are designed, radio and acoustic methods are suited for searches for the very low fluxes of neutrinos with energies >1017 eV. This is because, due to the very long attenuation lengths of radio and acoustic waves in ice and salt, detection modules can be spaced very far apart. In this paper, I calculate the absorption and scattering coefficients as a function of frequency and grain size for acoustic waves in glacial ice and salt domes and show that experimental measurements on laboratory samples and in glacial ice and salt domes are consistent with theory. For South Pole ice with grain size 0.2 cm at -51 degrees C, scattering lengths are calculated to be 2000 km and 25 km at 10 kHz and 30 kHz, respectively, and the absorption length is calculated to be 9 km at frequencies above 100 Hz. For NaCl (rock salt) with grain size 0.75 cm, scattering lengths are calculated to be 120 km and 1.4 km at 10 kHz and 30 kHz, and absorption lengths are calculated to be 30,000 km and 3300 km at 10 kHz and 30 kHz. Existing measurements are consistent with theory. For ice, absorption is the limiting factor; for salt, scattering is the limiting factor.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Eart

Opposing Responses to Scarcity Emerge from Functionally Unique Sociality Drivers

From biofilms to whale pods, organisms across taxalive in groups, thereby accruing numerous diverse benefits of soci-ality. All social organisms, however, pay the inherent cost of in-creased resource competition. One expects that when resources be-come scarce, this cost will increase, causing group sizes to decrease.Indeed, this occurs in some species, but there are also species forwhich group sizes remain stable or even increase under scarcity.What accounts for these opposing responses? We present a concep-tual framework, literature review, and theoretical model demon-strating that differing responses to sudden resource shifts can beexplained by which sociality benefit exerts the strongest selectionpressure on a particular species. We categorize resource-relatedbenefits of sociality into six functionally distinct classes and modeltheir effect on the survival of individuals foraging in groups underdifferent resource conditions. Wefind that whether, and to what de-gree, the optimal group size (or correlates thereof) increases, de-creases, or remains constant when resource abundance declinesdepends strongly on the dominant sociality mechanism. Existingdata, although limited, support our model predictions. Overall,we show that across a wide diversity of taxa, differences in howgroup size shifts in response to resource declines can be driven bydifferences in the primary benefits of sociality.publishedVersionPaid open acces

Testing a brief web-based intervention to increase recognition of tobacco constituents

Objective: We examined website formats to increase smokers\u27 recognition of harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHCs) in cigarettes. Methods: Adult, daily smokers (N = 279) were randomized to view a brief, single-page study website showing HPHC names and uses. The intervention site was tailored + interactive, labeled by cigarette brand/subbrand showing color imagery and pop-up boxes; the generic + static website (control) was unbranded in greyscale. Eye tracking equipment measured attention (dwell time) to precise website features. Linear regression analyses compared attention to HPHC descriptions and the correct recognition of 15 HPHC chemicals. A randomly selected sub-sample (N = 30) of participants qualitatively rated website usability. Results: Despite spending less dwell time on the HPHC text and entire website, adult smokers who viewed the generic + static website had greater improvement in HPHC recognition compared to the tailored + interactive website (4.6 vs 3.6; p = .02); this finding contrasts with current literature on tailoring and interactivity. Both websites were rated highly on ease-of-use and readability. Conclusions: Basic formats and narrative HPHC Web-based content attracted less visual attention, yet increased recognition of these chemicals in cigarettes, compared to brand-tailored, interactive web-based content