Too Much, or Not Enough: Academic Integrity Lessons for New Graduate Students and Graduate TAs

As Graduate Services Coordinator at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the presenter was asked to provide instruction on academic integrity to all new graduate students during New Student Orientation and to new graduate teaching assistants during their training program. For the orientation and training programs held in the Fall Semester of 2019, the RIT Office of Graduate Education placed a greater emphasis on academic integrity content and less emphasis on information about library resources and services. This presentation will focus on the evolving role of the librarian as academic integrity instructor at RIT, review and assess feedback from graduate students who received academic integrity instruction, and discuss some lessons learned in practice

Panel: Serving Different Populations

Meeting the needs of graduate students systematically and intentionally can be a daunting strategic initiative. The students’ interests, expertise, and career objectives can vary greatly. Understanding and addressing gaps in their knowledge can an insurmountable obstacle, seemingly, as well. Politically there may be silos to contend and barriers to perception of “what libraries can do.” We would like to propose a panel discussion where different institutions discuss the wins and losses of reaching different graduate populations. The objective of the panel discussion is to openly share the strategies that have worked for different populations, as well as strategies that can be scaled and tailored depending on the needs of the groups served. Samantha Walsh of Icahn School of Medicine brings the perspective of an urban academic medical center, medical school, and graduate school which includes professional programs, dual-degree programs, and joint programs with other institutions. We have also been in conversation with Mou Chakraborty of Salisbury University Libraries who serves both pre-professional and social science departments. Mandy Havert from Notre Dame University also serves of the graduate students at her university. Roman Koshykar works exclusively with Computer Science students. Moderator will be Nastasha Johnson of Purdue University, and will ask questions such as: 1) what, by far, as been your campus’s greatest achievement in reaching graduate students, 2) what service or tool did your institution try that was a blaring error, 3) in a perfect world, what do you need the most to have the greatest impact on graduate services, and 4) does your institution have a strategic plan for reaching graduate students or for outreach. The goal of the panel presentation is for those who attend and those who present to learn for each other and craft new ideas that can scaled accordingly for their individual home institutions

Graduate Students and Academic Integrity: What is the Librarian\u27s Role?

As Graduate Services Coordinator at RIT, the presenter was asked to provide instruction on academic integrity to new graduate students for two consecutive Fall Semester Orientations. This presentation will compare and contrast academic integrity orientation activities delivered in the Fall 2018 Semester with those delivered in the Fall 2019 Semester. In the latter term, the RIT Office of Graduate Education placed a greater emphasis on academic integrity content and less emphasis on information about library resources and services, as compared with the former term, in their orientation program for new graduate students. This presentation will focus on the evolving role of the librarian as academic integrity instructor at RIT, and discuss some lessons learned in practice

Scatter Plots and Trendlines: Meaningfully assessing long-term LibGuides usage

RIT Libraries implemented the LibGuides 2.0 CMS in August 2015, but patron interests change over the course of five years. How can I discover whether my guides are still capturing the interest of the students and faculty at RIT? Using some simple charting and statistical tools in Microsoft Excel, I was able to deduce patterns in usage for both my subject and non-subject guides. These usage trends have provided valuable information on what topics our library patrons are highly interested in learning, what topics are not as popular as they were five years ago, and what topics seem to generate steady interest

Flipping the Classroom for EndNote Instruction

Presentation on how to efficiently offer EndNote instruction to students using streaming tutorials. The presenter discusses the need for asynchronous instruction to meet student needs, technology considered that did not work for this purpose, and the successful solution to this problem. The presentation includes information on software selection, usage data, a timeline for implementation, and future goals. The advantages of this flipping the classroom are outlined