Conference Program

President's Program | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Poster Sessions

Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Location: Lobby

 

Breakfast Meet & Greet 8:00 - 8:40 a.m. / Business Meeting: 8:40 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Location: Ballroom A

 

Keynote Speaker: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Location: Ballroom A

Speaker: Dr. Rush Miller

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

 

Collaborating with Faculty to Develop Effective Research Assignments

Location: Franklin 1

Speakers: Jennifer Starkey, Megan Mitchell, and Cynthia Comer (Oberlin College)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: This program will give participants a foundation of knowledge and strategies for working with faculty to improve the effectiveness of research-related assignments. This session will offer approaches for communicating with faculty about assignments and present alternatives to the traditional term paper. The presenters will discuss methods of intervention as well as prevention of "rogue" assignments, and share experiences of leading a workshop for faculty about research assignments.

 

PANEL SESSION: Doing More with Less Staff: Teaching and Assessing Information Literacy Online

Location: Franklin 2

Speaker: Sharon Holderman (The Ohio State University ATI)

Handout: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: The Ohio State ATI Library piloted an online information literacy assessment/instruction program in Fall 2008. Students took a pretest to measure their skills upon entering ATI. Then they took six online tutorials with corresponding post-quizzes. This presentation describes the tutorial creation process including technology requirements. It will also cover the pretest and post-quiz results, highlighting the key outcomes that can be used to improve other instruction programs.

 

Retooling Library Services for International Student Success

Diversity Committee Program

Location: Franklin 3

Speakers: Robert D. Vega and William Weare (Valparaiso University); Kwabena Sekyere (Miami University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt)

Overview: Many American universities are becoming more international in character. This has resulted in challenges (and opportunities) for academic libraries in their efforts to help international students succeed. The presenters will first examine the linguistic and cultural differences that make supporting international students challenging. They will then describe the efforts already in place at their institutions. Finally, they will explore opportunities for new initiatives that support the success of this growing constituency.

 

Copyright Issues for Libraries in a Web 2.0 and Web 3D World

Location: Hamilton 1

Speaker: Stephen Marvin (West Chester University)

Overview: A brief refresher of Copyright Fair Use and new acceptable uses for copyright protected material with social networking and virtual worlds. Learn the results of recent challenges to copyright, but more importantly, understand why! Concentration will be on the production of instructional programs, digitization, and sharing documents with Web 2.0 and virtual 3E worlds.

 

Branching Out: 20 Ideas in 20 Minutes

DLIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Hamilton 2

Speakers: Carmen Byg and Tiffany Hampel (Franklin University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: How do you get users to connect with your Library when they have different interests and needs? How do you get your online users more engaged? This session will give twenty ideas for accomplishing increased communication about what your library has to offer to on-campus and distance faculty and students. Library program ideas, collaboration with other departments and the use of technology to accomplish these efforts will be discussed.

 

Helping Our Communities Grow: Engage Your Local Businesses -- Stimulate New Partnership Opportunities

Location: Liberty Room

Speaker: Ran Raider (Wright State University); Carol Fang (Wright State University)

Related Materials: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: Today’s tough economic times have seen a growing trend in small business startups. This Round Table will allow local business advocates from universities and area development organizations to interact with academic libraries on ideas to expand services to local businesses. While traditionally the role of public libraries, unique resources are available at academic libraries that local businesses can use for their information needs. What kind of information needs do businesses have? What services are unique in academic libraries that can prove useful to local businesses? How can academic libraries reach out to businesses? These and other ideas will be discussed by the round table participants. The round table will then be open to the audience for a discussion on ideas to promote academic libraries’ services in their local communities. Members of the audience are highly encouraged to participate in this important discussion, sharing what they may be currently doing, or what ideas they may have on helping our local businesses.

 

 

Tech Spotlight Sessions

Location: Ballroom B

[10:10] Technical Services Tools Redux

Speaker: Becky Yoose (Miami University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: What can technical services departments do to tackle automation, training, and communication issues when they have been doing more with less for years? This presentation will cover several free (or inexpensive) and easy to implement tools that Miami University’s Technical Services department has incorporated into daily operations. Specific software, including wikis, macros, and tutorials will be discussed along with quick ways these tools can help technical services address the above issues.

[10:35] Bulk Uploading Digital Images and Metadata into Flickr

Speakers: Jason Paul Michel (Miami University)

Overview: The Digital Collections program at Miami University Libraries has a large amount of rich digital image collections, stored primarily in a third party content management system. In the current environment, however, where information channels abound, it is imperative to have as many different access points as possible to library collections. This presentation will focus on the work of uploading bulk amounts of digital images and metadata from CONTENTdm into Flickr -the prominent photo sharing website.

 

Embedded Librarians Meet Students in Space

Location: Franklin 1

Speakers: Beth Tumbleson, John Burke, and Sarah Frye (Miami University - Middletown)

Related Materials: Web Site

Overview: Embedded librarians can assist students with course-related research when they meet in the campus course management system. According to recent findings from Project Information Literacy, digital natives struggle to identify and locate desired materials needed for assignments. Three librarians at a university regional campus will describe their experiences in implementing a pilot program using Blackboard to deliver course-specific resources and strategies. In this space, surprising and productive bonds develop.

 

"When You Reach a Dead End, What Do You Do?": Redefining Assignments Using Survey Results

Location: Franklin 2

Speakers: Masha Misco, Katie Gibson, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, and Eric Resnis (Miami University);

Presentation Files: Web Page (Prezi)

Overview: This presentation will recount the experiences of a group of professors and librarians at Miami University who worked together on incorporating information literacy into the curriculum. A survey was created to define students’ perceptions of information literacy and their experiences doing research. Some of the results were surprising to both faculty and librarians. We will discuss how our faculty used the findings to change how they address information literacy in their assignments.

 

Social Software, Remix, and Copyright: Issues for Libraries Today

TEDSIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Franklin 3

Speaker: Anne Gilliland (The Ohio State University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

 

Overview: Libraries have been deeply concerned with copyright issues for many years for electronic reserves, interlibrary loan, preservation activities, and negotiating contracts for electronic content. Today’s culture of social software and remix is changing and complicating copyright law. Anne Gilliland from the Copyright Management Office at the Ohio State University Prior Health Sciences Library talks about what this means for libraries, as students and faculty, as well as libraries themselves, increasingly participate in this cultural shift.

 

Library Informatics: A New Undergraduate Degree for Support Staff

SSIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Hamilton 1

Speaker: Leslie Hammann (Northern Kentucky University)

Overview: Northern Kentucky's College of Informatics and Steely Library have partnered with Bluegrass Community and Technical College to establish a Bachelor of Science degree in Library Informatics. This online 2+2 completer program allows support staff to pursue a degree in their current field of work and builds a foundation for future graduate studies. Details regarding the demographic research supporting the need for this degree, the unique focus of the curriculum, as well as the administrative role of a university library offering an academic degree will be presented.

 

What Net Generation Students Really Want: Determining Library help-Seeking Preferences of Undergrads

Location: Hamilton 2

Speaker: Lizah Ismail (Marywood University)

Overview: This presentation discusses an online survey of undergraduates conducted at Marywood University to investigate if the Net Generation profile - being technologically savvy and desiring quick results - applies to library help-seeking preferences. Students were asked to rate their preference for research assistance options such as email, chat, Facebook and librarian hours outside the library. Findings, which run counter to expectations, and implications for reference service at the library and elsewhere, are addressed.

 

Tech Spotlight Sessions:

Location: Ballroom B

[11:10] Redefining the Resource Page: Replacing Static Subject Guides with Dynamic Blogs

Speakers: Shelly Xiaoli Zhu (Youngstown State University); Rebecca Roberts (Youngstown State University)

Overview: Librarians are utilizing an impressive array of Web 2.0 applications to provide information to users. This presentation will focus on how one library used Wordpress blogging software to simplify the process of creating, maintaining, and updating web content such as subject guides and class pages.

[11:35] Teaching Visually with Web Video and Screencasts

Speakers: Jessica Hagman (Ohio University); Chad Boeninger (Ohio University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: Screen capture and web video technologies are simple and inexpensive tools for librarians to answer questions and teach new skills with dynamic visual content. This session will provide live demonstrations of popular screen capture tools and methods to incorporate videos into your library website to enhance your reference and instructional initiatives. The session will also demonstrate how to use a web-cam and online applications to hold virtual reference desk or virtual office hours.

 

Re-energizing Library Instruction: Using LibGuides in the Library Classroom

Location: Liberty Room

Speakers: Patricia Antonelli (Bowling Green State University - Firelands), Amy Fyn (Bowling Green State University), and Kathryn Venditti (Ashland University)

Presentation Files: Web Site (LibGuides)

Overview: Librarians have eagerly adopted Springshare's LibGuides to use as subject guides, web sites and course guides. This session will focus on the use of LibGuides in the library classroom where instruction librarians are discovering that this efficient Web 2.0 tool can re-energize the library instruction experience for librarians, students and faculty. Librarians from a state university, a private institution and a regional campus will discuss the various ways they are using LibGuides in their classrooms.

 

Lunch and Awards

Location: Ballroom D

No Conflict Time (Vendors, Posters and Interest Groups)

Location: Ballroom D

Information Literacy and Course Management Systems: An Owens Community College Experience

CMIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Franklin 1

Speakers: Katie Blocksidge (Owens Community College)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.pptx); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: In the summer of 2008, Owens Community College began providing information literacy instruction through their course management system, Blackboard. By developing online content, the library was able to extend information literacy instruction to distance learners, and provide alternative methods of learning to traditional students. Additionally, the library used pre-existing technology to develop online content at no additional cost.

 

The Communicating Library: Building an Integrated Marketing/Assessment Structure to Better Meet User Needs

Location: Franklin 2

Speaker: Arne J. Almquist, Ph.D. (Northern Kentucky University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Handout: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: How does your library decide which new products and services to develop? Are users fully aware of the services and resources that you offer? Are you effectively meeting user needs? The W. Frank Steely Library at NKU is engaged in an ongoing effort to create an effective, bidirectional communications structure, helping the library to better meet needs and measure success and impact. The presentation will provide theoretical and practical information, drawing on the library’s experiences.

 

How Suite It Is: Assembling a Comprehensive Collection of Library Resources for a First Year Writing Program

Location: Franklin 3

Speakers: Colleen Boff, Amy Fyn, Kate Najacht, Rob Snyder, and Joelle Thomas (Bowling Green State University)

Overview: BGSU Libraries decided to reinvigorate their traditional approach to library instruction in English composition courses. Attend this session to find out how they provide in-person sessions to select sections of this course in an equitable way without taxing limited library staff. Presenters will also demonstrate their suite of instructional materials developed for these courses which utilize LibGuides, Blackboard, screen capture software, and homegrown open source tutorial software. Assessment efforts will also be shared..

 

Coping with Cuts: Reimagining Reference Services in a Trying Budgetary Climate

Location: Hamilton 1

Speakers: Andrew Revelle, Katie Gibson, and Elizabeth Sullivan (Miami University)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: In adverse budget climate, libraries must reexamine existing services and realign priorities. This presentation will focus on our experience in using the loss of one tier in our two tier reference service as an opportunity to review and recharge existing reference services. Discussion will include prioritization, best use of staff resources, and use of new technologies to facilitate the provision of reference services.

 

Reinvigorating the Curriculum Materials Center Collection: A Case Study

CMCIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Hamilton 2

Speakers: Karen Plummer, Valerie Jenkins, and Joycelyn Ramos (University of Akron)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.pptx); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Handout: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: After years of neglect, College of Education faculty, the Education Librarian and Cataloging reassessed the University of Akron Libraries Curriculum Collection, focusing specifically on how this collection was organized. This collaborative effort to improve the overall accessibility of the collection resulted in integration of fiction with instructional and nonfiction, revised procedures for describing and classifying resources, and re-purposing Cataloging staff focus towards reclassifying and enhancing cataloging of the existing collection while expediting cataloging of backlog materials.

 

Tech Spotlight Sessions:

Location: Ballroom B

[2:00] Free For All: Historical Primary Sources on the Internet

Speaker: Carole A. Singer (Bowling Green State University)

Presentation Files: Web Page (LibGuides)

Overview: In the current economic climate, libraries are finding it difficult to afford the databases of primary source material that our history faculty and students want. Fortunately, there is a wealth of primary source material available for free on the Internet. This presentation covers how to identify and organize these resources so they can be accessed and used to supplement the materials we purchase.

[2:25] Toledo’s “High-Tech” Attic: New opportunities in Networked Outreach Programs

Speaker: Arjun Sabharwal (University of Toledo)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: As a pioneer in Web-driven collaborative outreach, Toledo’s Attic presents a new model for libraries facing challenges in a rapidly transforming techno-social environment. The project not only redefines core library services such as outreach, but may redefine librarian competencies and transform the working environment for some librarians. The presentation will address the Toledo’s Attic project in the context of social, cultural, economical challenges and emerging opportunities.

 

Redefining Ourselves: Revolution in an Academic Library

Location: Liberty Room

Speakers: Marcia Krautter Suter and Laura Kinner (University of Toledo)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: This presentation will describe the planning process and steps involved in revolutionizing the University of Toledo libraries from 20th century book centers into 21st century learning centers. The presenters will explain the process and procedures involved in this transition, including collection evaluation, design of study spaces, addition of virtual computer labs, and rethinking of reference and instruction activities.

 

Snack Time

Location: Ballroom D

New Directions and New Opportunities for OhioLINK

Location: Franklin 1

Speaker: Peter Murray (OhioLINK)

Background Reading Fall 2009 OhioLINK Update

Overview: Twenty years after the formational documents of OhioLINK were written, the state’s academic libraries are again pressing forward with strategic initiatives that improve the quality of service to students, faculty and staff with economies of scale that reduce the overall cost of services. Attendees will learn of efforts to re-architect the union catalog, provide hosted institutional repository platforms, create a unified discovery layer for all statewide and member content, and cooperate on technical service activities.

 

Research Consultations: Doing More with Less

Location: Franklin 2

Speaker: Sarah Frye (Miami University - Middletown)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: Current research in education has drawn attention to the diverse learning styles of today’s undergraduate students. Knowledge and understanding of these learning styles have resulted in an exciting reconsideration of traditional library services. Academic libraries now emphasize group instruction and a variety of interactive web-based services to promote information literacy. A research consultation service offering personalized assistance is easily implemented and offers a value-added mode of instruction in which students receive one-on-one contact with librarians.

 

Working Together: Academic Librarians and Library Media Specialists Preparing 21st Century Learners

Location: Franklin 3

Speaker: Cherie Bronkar (Muskingum College)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: Muskingum College will share their recent collaborative efforts with local High School Media Specialists to ensure that students are prepared for Academic Libraries and academic research. The session will include planning a workshop for Media Specialists, involving college faculty, sharing knowledge of freshman information seeking, creating a collaborative Wiki for Academic Librarians and Media Specialists and the success of the initiative.

 

Creative Library Marketing in Tough Economic times

Location: Hamilton 1

Speaker: Mark Eddy (Case Western Reserve University)

Overview: A panel discussion with librarians about designing new marketing strategies to maximize library staff resources and skill sets at little or no cost. Possible topics may include: 1) re-purposing staff, resources, and web technologies to provide cost effective and efficient patron services 2) re-evaluating traditional marketing techniques and exploring new methods 3) resource availability versus direct patron services - which one, or what combination, maintains/improves the overall community view of the library? 4) In-house collaboration to improve library visibility - tapping into staff skill sets across departments for marketing projects 5) Strategies to connect the library service mission with campus-wide teaching and research initiatives, capital campaigns, ... etc. 6) What can we learn from creative marketing techniques in public libraries? 7) Examples of successful and innovative marketing programs.

 

Cooperative Collection Development: Sharing Funding, Resources, and Responsibilities across Libraries

Location: Hamilton 2

Speakers: Rob Kairis (Kent State University - Stark Campus); Kay Downey (Kent State University - Kent Campus) and Rose Guerrieri (Kent State University - Trumbull Campus)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

 

Overview: The 8 campuses of Kent State University have implemented a cooperative project for sharing resources in the field of Nursing. In the course of 2 years the project has resulted in a shared ebook collection, enhanced access to electronic journals, and a combined approval plan where librarians on all campuses select book titles in assigned LC classes. It is hoped that this project will create a model for other disciplines as well as other institutions.

 

Location: Ballroom B

Technology Spotlights:

[3:10]: Are You Ready to Roll? Expected Technology Competencies and the Library Worker

Speaker: John J. Burke (Miami University - Middletown)

Presentation Files: PowerPoint (.ppt); Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)

Overview: Academic library workers face an ever-increasing array of devices, software, and techniques to learn along a spectrum leading from familiarity to comfort to mastery. Each library must decide which competencies are fitting and reasonable for its own workers to possess, but it can be helpful to see what expectations are widely held. Once that clarity is gained, there are many possibilities of internal and external educational efforts to apply to personal and organizational technology training.

[3:35] TBA

 

Pre- and Post-testing as a Pedagogical Approach to Information Literacy

IIG-Sponsored Program

Location: Liberty Room

Speakers: Heidi Gauder & Rares Piloiu and Lois Szudy (Otterbein College)

Overview: While testing is typically used to evaluate student performance in individual courses (post-testing), we argue that testing can also have a larger pedagogical function. This presentation focuses on the advantages of pre- and post-testing in the freshmen instructional environment. While motivating student interest in Information Literacy, pre- and post-testing can also increase the faculty’s collaboration with the libraries and provide a more accurate assessment tool of student performance across wider section of the curriculum.

 

Evaluations and Giveaways

Location: Lobby

Poster Sessions

Ballroom A

American Indian Heritage Month Poster Exhibit

Presenter: Louis Mays (Southern State Community College)

Overview: A series of 19 framed posters of the annual American Indian Heritage Month project. This exhibit was made possible by a collaborative effort of a small two-year college library, the Ohio Valley Resource Conservation Development office, and the National Resource Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

Capturing the CWRU Experience

Presenter: Mark Eddy (Case Western Reserve University)

Overview: This poster describes a new library project to interview distinguished Case Western Reserve University staff and administrators who have unique perspectives on the history of the institution. The resulting audio webcasts will be featured on the Case Blog and the Kelvin Smith Library website.

 

Challenging Changes

Presenter: Melissa Meggitt (Walsh University)

Overview: Designing a user-friendly website is a challenge for many libraries. This poster highlights usability testing and user-centered redesign of the Walsh University library website. The usability testing activities included heuristics with think-aloud protocol, card sorting, and paper prototyping. The data gathered enabled a successful redesign of the library’s website.

 

Dental Journal Access and Management At A Crossroads

Presenters: Jan Cox (Indiana University)

Related Materials: Poster

Overview: This poster describes one library's crossroads experience of diverting from a road paved with tradition and tasks which required extensive manual labor to one paved with the efficiencies that digitization and automation can bring. The road taken led not only to access, management and task realignment and operational cost savings but has contributed to a reduction of the library's carbon footprint.

 

Documenting and Archiving Social Change

Presenters: Katie Gibson (Miami University)

Overview: This poster will present the use of the archival collection of a prominent Mexican playwright to reconnect students and researchers with historical events, prominent world leaders and well known literary figures of the 20th century. It will provide an overview of the materials available in the collection, the steps taken to make the collection accessible to students faculty and researchers, and its current uses in instruction and scholarship..

 

Engaging Non-Traditional Students in the Art of Persuasion

Presenter: Beth Tumbleson (Miami University - Middletown)

Overview: Non-traditional students on regional campuses whether in high school or in the work force, are typically assigned persuasive research papers. When meeting with the instruction librarian, there is much that could be covered in 45 minutes. What is wanted and needed by these students whose research skills vary greatly and preferred learning style runs to digital and dynamic? View this poster session for ideas to incorporate in future sessions you present.

 

Ever Use Your Phone to Access Your Libraries' Website

Presenter: Jamie Seeholzer and Joseph Salem (Kent State University)

Overview: In the spring of 2009, library faculty and web designers from Kent State University collaborated on developing a mobile version of the library’s Web page. Using focus group sessions, we gathered feedback from undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff from the university about their receptivity to a mobile version of the library’s Web site and the features they would find most helpful. Based on these discussions, the library faculty has begun to explore possibilities for the next generation of library services.

 

Greening the Library

Presenter: Mary Conroy (OHIONET)

Overview: How can we realign our libraries to be greener? This could be cost-effective and pleasant, as well as good for the environment. We’ll look at what some of our libraries have done and some strategies we explored.

 

Keeping Ahead of the Pack in a Changing Environment

Presenter: Stacy Brinkman and Jenny Presnell (Miami University)

Overview: As new technologies and interdisciplinary programs change the landscape of reference services, librarians must keep current with numerous topics, skills, and resources in order to continue to provide excellent informational services to our patrons. This poster describes an in-house, cross-disciplinary training program in which librarians learn from each other, creating local opportunities for professional development while simultaneously breaking down departmental and subject-area barriers, and helping librarians offer more consistent information to our patrons.

 

Life Long Learning

Presenter: Catherine Wells (Case Western Reserve University)

Related Materials: Handout; Bibliography; Survey of Libraries with Database Access for Alumni

Overview: After graduation students lose access to many of the resources and services they used as students. In 2007 our Library introduced a membership program for alumni allowing remote access to two research databases. At that time few programs existed around the country. Today more libraries are offering these services, and our program has grown from two databases to ten. Why and how did we do it? Topics covered: marketing, negotiation with vendors, cost recovery as well as a review the state of library alumni programs around the country.

 

Question of the Month at the Science Library

Presenter: Meghan Gamsby, James Clarke, and Kevin Messner (Miami University)

Related Materials: Poster

Overview: How do we get students to improve their research skills? At Miami University’s Brill Science Library we found a way with our Question of the Month. The contest requires students to make use of library resources to find the answer. This year we realigned the contest from its previous format, a mono-disciplinary focus, to be more inclusive of all the disciplines we serve at the library. In this poster we will discuss our results.

 

Recharging Virtual Reference Service: Kwabena Sekyere and Jason Paul Michel (Miami University)

Overview: While virtual reference is convenient for answering many types of questions, it could also be challenging to answer questions which are more complex than directional. Typing detailed lists of instructions for searching databases or catalog and etc. becomes cumbersome. This presentation will demonstrate how JING can be used in such cases in virtual referencing and share how patrons have received it. It will also explore some other possible ways the tool can be used.

 

The Great Spring Shelf Read

Presenters: Emily Liechty, Denise Downing, and Kevin Messner (Miami University)

Related Resources: Poster and Handout

Overview: Our library had not performed a complete shelf-read in over 3 years. Given a limited amount of full-time staff member hours available, we needed a new way to do the shelf read that used as little of their time as possible. Our solution was a semester-long student staff competition with prizes that rewarded accuracy and speed. The students did the bulk of the work and full-time staff were able to focus on other tasks.

 

The Three Rs of Professional Membership Participation

Presenters: Amy Miller (University of Rio Grande)

Overview: Academic librarians and staff can redefine, realign, and recharge their careers by participating in professional memberships. The Ohio Library Council is open to all library personnel - librarians and support staff alike. Let us help you redefine and realign yourself through professional development, networking, and leadership opportunities in this great organization.

 

Transitioning from the Corporate Library to an Academic Library

Presenters: Lisa Hayes (Indiana Wesleyan University)

Overview: After 20-years as a librarian in mostly law firm libraries, I switched to being an academic librarian and teaching BI. I will discuss how I made my decision, why it was and is attractive, what I've done to deal with the different demands and workload and offer suggestions for others seeking to do the same.

Video-Based Library Exhibits

Presenters: Kevin Messner, Emily Liechty and Maggie Workman (Miami University)

Related Resources: Poster

Overview: Our recent series of video-driven library exhibits will be discussed. Arguably more so than "traditional glass case" library displays of books and objects, the video format provides a dynamic, visually intriguing appeal that successfully captures user attention. The presentation will discuss the inspiration, approaches, challenges, and future directions for our video-based library exhibits.