[SOA] ALAO Annual Conference Early Bird Ends Friday!

Tue Sep 11 10:38:24 EDT 2018

Scroll down for a list of the sessions that may be of particular interest to folks working in archives & special collections.

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From: ALAO Public Relations Coordinator <publicrelations at alaoweb.org<mailto:publicrelations at alaoweb.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:16 AM
Subject: [ALAO] Early Bird Ends Friday! Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference

Please excuse any duplicate postings. ALAO member rate for MiALA members!!!!

Register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.alaoweb.org_event-2D2954601&d=DwMFaQ&c=3buyMx9JlH1z22L_G5pM28wz_Ru6WjhVHwo-vpeS0Gk&r=CiSNLA9RKpFrzoSuNX7KU5K_amcpD5SgbeDo2gjKV9g&m=d59ahlcqcveFYgx-1uZX6pJBITiIpTNOWILk7ePXGSA&s=Seo99t6i1orFRwQ9SnWZCc-aSsPo9SPhHyh47gPYF9A&e=> now for the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference Take Action: Conveying Value, Cultivating Success:  The conference will be held on Friday, November 2 at the Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center in Columbus, OH, with a full day pre-conference on November 1.
https://www.alaoweb.org/conferences/2018/about

The conference has much to offer you!

  *   A keynote address by Megan Oakleaf
  *   AND An afternoon plenary by Debra Gilchrist
  *   28 breakout sessions from your colleagues in Ohio and surrounding states.
  *   Posters and Roundtable discussions
The pre-conference will be the ACRL Roadshow  Assessment in Action: Demonstrating and Communicating Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success, facilitated by Debra Gilchrist.

Registration is open for the pre-conference and conference.
Rates:
Pre-conference:
$115 ALAO Members
$150 Non ALAO Members

Conference Early Bird (until September 14):
$130 ALAO/MiALA Members
$165 Non ALAO Members
$100 ALAO Student Members/Retirees

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SESSIONS

Creating A Meaningful Learning Framework for Volunteers, Internships, Practicums, and Co-Ops
Michelle Sweetser, Bowling Green State University; Colleen Boff, Bowling Green State University
Creating meaningful and mutually beneficial experiences for those interested in experiential or co-curricular learning at your institution can be exhausting and time consuming, especially when these requests come at busy times of the year. Yet these types of opportunities have the power to recruit others to the profession, to help the library make gains in completing special projects, and to provide information literacy skill-building experiences that serve students in the classroom as well. Whether an individual is looking for an undergraduate or graduate research project in the archives or a recent graduate is curious about the behind-the-scenes work in the cataloging department, those of us who work in academic libraries genuinely want to provide a good learning experience. The presenters in this session will share the learning outcomes, syllabus and other supporting documents they have crafted to provide a structured, self-paced experience for these types of exploratory or co-curricular requests. This framework is easily adaptable for all types of library work from access and technical services to reference / instruction and archival work. Attendees will leave this session with the framework materials and a list of experiential learning projects developed by the presenters as well as audience participants.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to make minor adaptations to a learning framework for volunteers, co-ops, practicums, and internships in order to structure a meaningful learning experience for this population. Participants will leave this session with ideas for projects they might use in experiential learning experiences at their own institution.
Session Audience: Administration and Supervision
Keywords: volunteers, internships, co-ops, practicums, experiential learning

Digital Archives in the Discovery Layer: A Successful Collaboration between Archivists and Technical Services Librarians
Christina Beis, University of Dayton; Kayla Harris, University of Dayton; Stephanie Shreffler, University of Dayton
Effective collaboration between archivists and technical services librarians can increase the discoverability of special collection materials. Panelists from a medium-sized institution will discuss archival tools that are available to preserve collections of digital content and how to make the collections available university-wide. Working together, archivists and a technical services librarian created a plan to integrate these collections into the discovery layer so that metadata was indexed on a single, user-friendly platform. Once live, these collections were advertised and usage statistics were collected in order to determine impact. Attendees at this panel will engage in discussion with each other and with the panelists about their own digital archive collections and explore how they can increase their visibility.
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees will be able to identify services and software to archive and preserve university and library collections of digital content.
Attendees will be able to plan and construct a custom digital archive collection within the discovery layer in order to increase the visibility and usage of these records.
Session Audience: Emerging Technology and Web Services, Special Collections, Technical, Electronic, and Digital Services
Keywords: Collaboration, Archives, Discovery Services

Librarian as Archivist in Africatown: A Grassroots Experiment
Eboni A. Johnson, Oberlin College Libraries
The presenter will talk about her recent experience wearing different hats as both a librarian and “field archivist” on an NSF-funded research project in the Africatown area of Mobile, Alabama. Africatown is an area of national significance as the landing site of the last ship known to bring enslaved Africans to the county. Currently its residents are facing – and fighting – climate change and environmental justice challenges that threaten its existence. A team of students and faculty from the presenter's institution are researching connections between African-American and Indigenous communities around these important issues. The presenter will discuss her growing role in this effort, which includes designing archival systems that empower the community to document and preserve records and photographs that are crucial to helping Africatown tell its own story.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to: Cultivate faculty relationships in order to create delightful, unexpected opportunities for library engagement.
Navigate community partnerships outside the purview of academic libraries in order to demonstrate our value beyond our campuses.
Generate library buy-in and support for community-based and community-directed work in order to incorporate this kind of work with your current job role.
Session Audience: Diversity Issues, Emerging Technology and Web Services, Instruction and Reference
Keywords: Community engagement, archives, digitization, community partnership, outreach
Tag: Diversity

Special Collections Outreach: Using Liaison Librarians to Promote the Use of Special Collections in the Teaching and Learning Process
Cindy Krolikowski, Wayne State University
Special Collections Librarians need to promote and encourage the research and curricular use of Special Collections in the academic setting. Liaison or Subject Librarians have an interest in informing faculty and students of all the resources available to them for research or classroom activities. Our Special Collections Team partnered with the Liaison Librarians to help integrate the use of Special Collections in the teaching and learning process on campus. With the end goal of attracting faculty to a Special Collections drop-in session, a presentation was developed to quickly introduce all the Liaison Librarians to significant Special Collections in their subject areas. This program will explain the planning, execution and results of this collaboration. Liaison Librarians were prepared to contact faculty with specific examples of the Special Collections available to them, and to personally invite faculty members to a Special Collections drop-in session to learn more.
Learning Outcomes: Participants in this program will learn about a collaborative effort involving Liaison Librarians and Special Collections librarians that helped facilitate a better understanding of Special Collections to the liaisons. Participants will be encouraged to think about small but potent ways that a better integration and demystifying of Special Collections at their own libraries can enhance the provision of reference, research and instructional services to their patrons.
Session Audience: Instruction and Reference, Marketing and Promotion, Special Collections
Keywords: Subject Librarians, Liaison Librarians, Special Collections, Special Collections Librarians, Faculty, Students, Research

Transforming Student Assistants to Student Assets
Katrina Rouan, Wayne State University; Veronica Bielat, Wayne State University; Matthew Wisotsky, Wayne State University; Louiza Taylor, Wayne State University SIS
Many libraries, traditionally one of the biggest employers of students on our campuses, have embraced recent trends to expand the roles and voices of student employees in our daily work. Our university is no different, but rather than focusing simply on building job responsibilities, we have adopted a more multi-dimensional approach when it comes to these opportunities. Recognizing that our student employees are diverse in their academic, professional and personal interests, our program is based on identifying their unique talents and providing them with an avenue to develop through meaningful work on library teams and projects. In addition, we are placing special emphasis on their personal leadership growth so that they may demonstrate team leadership, creative thinking, and influencing to future employers. With our student assets as partners, we have the ability to be more responsive to our broader student community needs. During this session, we will be sharing the story of how we developed and implemented our student experiential learning program while engaging attendees in activities to identify opportunities to build programs that include library student employees in meaningful professional experiences.
Learning Outcomes: Attendees will be able to articulate the difference between an experiential learning program and discrete tasks in order to build meaningful professional opportunities for student employees. Attendees will participate in a reflection activity in order to develop their own survey to assess their student employee assets.
Session Audience: Audience: Administration and Supervision, Instruction and Reference, Support Staff
Keywords: Library student employees, experiential learning, student success

POSTERS

#1Lib1Ref: How Library Staff Can Help Make Wikipedia Even Better
Cynthia H. Comer, Oberlin College
“Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.” That lofty goal is the main premise behind Wikipedia’s annual #1Lib1Ref campaign, which for the past three years has encouraged librarians—and anyone who cares about access to reliable, free knowledge—to add just one citation to a reputable source in a Wikipedia article. The publicity drive aims to increase the rigor of Wikipedia articles and provide readers with more entry points to explore the research behind an article. Learn how your library can participate! Supported by the Wikipedia Library and Wikimedia affiliates around the world, #1Lib1Ref provides a springboard for library staff to share their expertise with the half billion readers who often choose Wikipedia as their first stop for finding information. This poster explains what #1Lib1Ref is; enumerates the benefits of participating for Wikipedia, its users, and library staff members; offers tips for how to coordinate your library’s involvement; points to online resources that can help with publicity, training, and coordination; and encourages more academic library staff throughout Ohio to contribute to the project. (PS: It’s not as hard as you might think!)
Learning Outcomes: Describe the basic goals of Wikipedia’s #1Lib1Ref campaign in order to enjoin colleagues to participate.
Explore resources provided in order to better understand how to contribute to and improve one of the world’s most popular websites.
Discover how participating in #1Lib1Ref supports broader library goals, such as promoting the role of scholarly information, sharing knowledge and expertise, and developing new approaches to librarians’ professional practice, especially around issues related to digital literacy.
Session Audience: Emerging Technology and Web Services, Instruction and Reference, Technical, Electronic, and Digital Services
Keywords: Wikipedia, digital literacy, #1Lib1Ref
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