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OK-ACRL holds an annual conference each fall where presenters share their knowledge and expertise as they pertain to library and information work for academic services.
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Item Open Access Framework Literacy: Understanding, Implementing and Integrating the ACRL Framework(2023-11-10) Edwards, JayThe ACRL Framework for Information Literacy was introduced in 2015, and since then library professionals have developed a myriad of ways of incorporating the Framework, including active methods of teaching these concepts directly to learners, or working these concepts into previously developed practices. How can we integrate the Framework into library instruction, reference and other services? Over the last eight years, how have Oklahoma librarians already done so? Where have we found success? Is there anything missing in the Framework? Is it time for the ACRL to update it? Join in on an exploration of the concepts within the Framework, where learners will evaluate the language of the Six Frames, and discover methods to apply these ideas into library services.Item Open Access Maintaining Momentum: How One Regional Public University Library is Staying Afloat(2024-11-08) Parton, AndreaIn the midst of various efforts to become more involved and visible in the University of Arkansas Fort Smith community, the Boreham Library on campus is undergoing three major faculty changes, which account for 50% of our total faculty positions. Despite being short-staffed during the processes of filling these roles, the remaining faculty and staff have maintained the momentum we built during previous semesters through outreach and shared governance efforts. The librarians have kept control of a Student Academic Success course which the previous director advocated for us to teach while also participating in several campus committees, including Faculty Senate. Our exceptional support staff have ensured that we have been able to continue offering the same events and hours of operation for our community during these extra challenges.Item Open Access Forging Successful Relationships with Faculty: Supporting Critical Information Literacy(2024-11-08) York, Megan; Strahan, KayOBJECTIVE: The objective of this presentation is to probe into best strategies for forging open, collaborative relationships with faculty and librarians built on mutual respect, trust, and expertise. Presenters will open the session with a description of successful partnerships at their institutions and identify challenges and opportunities they faced when forging these relationships. The presentation will include opportunities for active engagement from the audience, such as reflective ideas. METHODS: To present on forging relationships with faculty, informed by the available literature and anecdotal experience of librarians on their strategies, successes, and challenges in collaborating with faculty members at their institutions. Presenters will have three themes with associated questions to help guide the reflective/active engagement portion: Trust: What strategies do you currently use to build rapport amongst faculty? Collaboration: What strategies or practices could we employ for more effective and open communication with faculty? Development: What types of professional development could be mutually beneficial for both librarians and faculty for supporting critical information literacy, especially considering the implications of evidence-based practice? GOALS: Present successful strategies for building open, collaborative relationships between librarians and faculty; and create an open dialogue for future insights into the topic and creation of a collaboration toolkit for librarians.Item Open Access Creating an open-source solution for tracking library door traffic counts(2024-10-28) Perera, DamithItem Open Access Digging for FOSLs: Launching a successful library friends group(2024-11-08) Brower, StewartItem Open Access Edmon Lore: Reimagining Library Orientation Through Gameful Design(2024-11-08) Reiter, Holly; Rosser, ChrisOrygma is an innovative, gamified initiative that transforms traditional library orientation and information literacy instruction. By blending fictional University lore with real-world research tasks, Orygma creates an immersive learning experience that playfully engages students as they learn about library spaces and services and develop crucial information literacy skills. Lore incorporates real-life elements as part of its fiction, so playing with fictive University lore enables us to manufacture information needs that connect with current and historical events, actual people, scientific discoveries, and news headlines in the “real world.” By gamifying library orientation, we're empowering students with durable skills and inspiring them to become curious, capable researchers from their first semester on campus. Orygma transforms information literacy instruction, fostering a love for discovery that will serve students throughout their academic careers and beyond. This presentation will demonstrate how Orygma leverages storytelling, exploration, and collaborative problem-solving to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes. This idea intends to “level up” what we previously built by expanding the gamified aspects, deepening the story, and enhancing student engagement. Participants in this session will explore how Orygma: -Integrates physical and digital library spaces into a cohesive learning journey Utilizes a flexible, multi-modal approach to accommodate diverse ways of learning -Incorporates real-world research tasks that contribute to an evolving narrative -Employs gamification techniques to motivate and inspire student participation -Assesses learning outcomes through integrated feedback mechanisms -Integrates Generative AI to enhance play as a medium for learning by dynamically creating personalized puzzles, adapting storylines, and providing instant, contextual feedback to playersItem Open Access Old Lady Yells at Cloud: a consideration of AI in libraries(2024-11-08) Hoberecht, ToniWhat does AI have to do with creativity in libraries? A lot, but maybe not in the ways that you expect. It has become a truism that AI promoters push the ability of AI to do what have been traditionally human creative activity for centuries: writing and visual art. What does this mean for librarians? Wouldn't we rather have AI that is going to shelve all the books or fund a new library classroom? Is AI going to have all the fun while we librarians end up with the drudge work? Perhaps we should look more closely at the promises that AI is making and see what, if anything, is behind them. This presentation will examine some of the excitement around AI and consider if what AI can do for libraries is worth the cost.Item Open Access The Library as Connecting Point: Bringing Students and Faculty Together(2024-11-08) Denne, KristaThis presentation will highlight how we are bringing students and faculty together in conversation, presentations, and building community in the library. Over the last two years, I have built library programs from scratch and served crowds from 5 to 120 to engage in learning experiences. I will answer the following questions and equip others to ask and engage with these questions for their own context: How do you get students to engage today? How can the library serve as the academic hub of campus in a world where everyone is disengaged? Who are your stakeholders? Are there organizations you can partner with? Some of our programs have included: "An Evening With..." Series where faculty present on something of interest to them and engage with students to talk about the world of academics, their specific fields, and encourage community discussion. AI Events-AI in Academic Research, AI Week, and AI and Academic Integrity Discussions Research Tutorials Panel Discussions: First-Generation, AI and Humanities, Israel-Palestine History and Current Situation, Electoral College Discussion, Banned Book Week (with public library) Our engagement with students and faculty has led to an increase in library use. We have learned over the last two years that if we can build community in the library through these events, students are more likely to seek our help and resources. We are no longer strangers but partners in their learning experience. This conversation will equip others to identify ways in which they can engage with academic partners and build learning communities around the resources their libraries have to offer.Item Open Access Policies, Models, & Trends in Open Access, Open Data & Persistent Identifiers: An overview and update(2024-11-08) Iakovakis, Clarke; Kirsch, Dani; Upson, MattThis presentation will explore significant recent updates pertaining to open access, open data, and persistent identifiers, and some of the ways we are responding at Oklahoma State University Libraries. We will begin with an overview of the “Nelson Memo,” issued in 2022 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to initiate planning for immediate public access to peer reviewed publications and data resulting from federal funding. We will discuss what the memo says, how agencies are responding, and what we might anticipate in 2025 given there will be a new presidential administration regardless of the election results. We will then move to an outline of the Federal Purpose License (also called the Government Use License) as a legal foundation for federal agencies’ right to deposit and reuse research outputs derived from agency funding. We will provide an update on efforts to formalize recommendations regarding persistent identifiers into a National Standard, summarizing the recommendations in the “Developing a US Persistent Identifier National Strategy” document. By the time of the conference a National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Working Group will likely have formed to author a formal text for public comment. The discussion will conclude with observations on the effect these efforts might have on research offices and academic libraries, including implications for compliance, labor & staffing, and models for supporting researchers. We will then transition into a review of opportunities and challenges presented by these federal agency public access policies with respect to research data, including providing guidance for data management and sharing plan contents and supporting compliance with open access requirements. We will consider the importance of incorporating research data – and its impacts – in researcher evaluations like reappointment, promotion, and tenure and also outline our own efforts to quantify the impact of shared research data at an institutional level along with larger community efforts like the Make Data Count initiative. This presentation will conclude with an analysis of the continuing shift toward transformative agreements and tension with diamond OA models. We'll examine how these developments are reshaping the scholarly communication landscape and discuss their implications for academic libraries. Additionally, we'll highlight the connection between the OSU Experts Directory and the Open Research Oklahoma repository, showcasing how this integration enhances research discoverability and participation in Green OA.Item Open Access Teaching Research: Mind Mapping & Pathfinding Techniques(2023-11-10) Owens, MichelleToday's students need advanced information/data seeking and sorting skills to support their personal and professional writing and research. Mind mapping and pathfinding techniques help students conduct balanced analysis and reduce the tendency to cherry pick sources. This presentation will focus on teaching best practices and provide a resource list of free and low-cost tools for students and librarians.Item Open Access Open Access Datasets from Federal Government Agencies(2023-11-10) Reinman, Suzanne L.The U.S. Government is the largest publisher in the world and produces primary source data and statistics. Federal information is open and free and without copyright. Data and data sets published by U.S. government agencies are open access and are available to researchers to use. Learn the key access points to finding federal data.Item Open Access Leaving the Mess: Epistemology and Ethics in Media Literacy Instruction(2023-11-10) Cannon, Kimberly; Rosser, Chris“Authority is constructed and contextual.” Thus spake the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (2016), an assertion that rightly guides information and media literacy instructors as we form and inform students, empowering them to navigate an ecosystem rife with mis- and disinformation. Yet as danah boyd famously argues in her 2018 SXSW EDU keynote, how we teach media literacy can become an “assertion of authority over epistemology” that undermines skills we intend to sharpen by not recognizing and valuing fundamental differences among how individuals within communities make sense of the world(s) we inhabit. Just as authority is constructed and contextual, so also are evaluation and interpretation, sense-making constructs that determine how, why, and where we consume and create information. boyd asks, “How do we teach across epistemologies?” At COIL 2023, Kimberly Cannon and Chris Rosser engage boyd and her critics to describe the mess of epistemology and ethics in media literacy instruction; we then suggest how instructors might leave the mess, offering strategies to promote community and trust deployed in an exemplar gamified media literacy course entitled Eat, Play, Love: Adventures in the Information Ecosystem. Participants will: 1) identify current challenges for media literacy instruction; 2) encounter gameful design as a pedagogical strategy for navigating challenges; and 3) be challenged to attend to how we think about and encounter other minds, whether mediated digitally or face to face. We believe our use of media and of devices that mediate a tethering of self to a world of others can initiate among us generative orientations necessary for human (well) being, even across epistemologies. Note: danah boyd does not capitalize her name, and we defer here to her preferences.Item Open Access The Ultimate Power Couple: Academic Libraries and Institutional Research(2023-11-10) Cundiff, Caitlin; Owens, MichelleThe Institutional Research (IR) department isn't just about accreditation and federal reports. From professional development and literacy instruction to surveys and assessments, the university research and accountability department(s) can be the Blake Lively to the academic libraries Ryan Reynolds. Join Michelle Owens and Caitlin Cundiff from OSUIT in talking about the many ways the academic library and IR department(s) can work together and become the "it" couple on-campus.Item Open Access Recruiting, Hiring, & On-Boarding Non-MLS Liaison Librarians: A Case Study(2023-11-10) Robbins, Sarah; Schilling, AmandaA case study of how the University of Oklahoma Libraries recruited, hired, and then on-boarded three Science Liaison Librarians who held advanced subject degrees but no Masters in Library Science. This study provides suggestions for modifying job postings, interview processes, and on-boarding to appeal to non-MLS subject experts and to fully inform them of the scope of liaison work. After providing a brief overview of our work, we will engage the audience in a facilitated conversation about the issue and potential impact for our profession.Item Open Access Defending the Freedom to Read: Policies, Procedures & Civic Engagement(2023-11-10) LaRue, JamesAuthor of On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US (Fulcrum, 2023), LaRue has dealt with over 1,200 challenges in his career as a public library director and former Executive Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. This talk will focus on the four reasons library resources are challenged, what tactics are used to impose censorship today, and why public engagement is essential to challenge resolution.Item Open Access Teaching Information Literacy Across Generations: Grandparent University at Oklahoma State University Libraries(2023-11-10) Schovanec, Adam; Reiter, HollyGrandparent University is a three-day experience for OSU alumni and their grandchildren to experience "college life" by living in a residence hall, choosing a "major," and attending "classes" and social events. In summer 2023, the OSU Libraries hosted a major, "Exploring the Modern Academic Library." As part of the major, a graduate student in Learning Design and Technology and former K-12 teacher teamed up with a librarian to present a session on information literacy. They faced the challenge of having to teach multiple demographics at the same time: grandparents, who ages varied widely, and grandchildren ages 10-13. This presentation will share how the session was designed and taught, as well as lessons learned through the experience.Item Open Access Goldfish in a bowl: Teaching privacy literacy to undergraduates(2023-11-10) Reiter, HollyFree coffee in exchange for your personal data. Wifi that tracks your movements across campus. Apps that mine data across your device. For college students today, giving up personal data is simply the cost of being online, both for personal and educational purposes. And while students may care about maintaining their online privacy, many do not have the tools to practice good data privacy habits, because they simply have not been taught them. In this presentation, we will explore what privacy literacy is, why librarians are perfectly poised to offer data privacy instruction, and look at examples of data privacy lessons that the presenter has used in their own credit-bearing information literacy course.Item Open Access Accessibility Quick Tips(2023-11-8) Weber, RebeccaItem Open Access Redefining Traditional Library Space in Support of Digital, Media and Data Literacy(2023-11-8) Davis, Melvin; Hughes, Jennifer; Resnis, EricCoastal Carolina University is constructing a new library while also planning a complete renovation of the old library. Space needs for emerging makerspace technologies, data visualization labs, and special collections compete as priorities against traditional facility usage designated for desktop computers and physical print collections. The presenters will share how they used years of qualitative and quantitative data to determine the best use and design of library spaces for 21st century learners.Item Open Access From Ph.D. to Library: Parallels and Divergences between Data Librarians and the Researchers They Serve(2023-11-10) Kirsch, DanielleOne of many challenges for data librarians is bridging the gap (often as much physical as philosophical) between researchers and the providers of research-oriented services. Data librarians possess much of the knowledge and skills necessary to assist researchers throughout the lifecycle of their projects, providing assistance on everything from data management and sharing plans to the eventual archival of various research products. However, librarians and researchers do not always speak the same language or prioritize the same outcomes for research products. As someone nearing the completion of a Ph.D. in biology and serving as a Research Data Specialist in an academic library, I can contribute perspectives as both a researcher and research support staff. Using my own personal experience as well as evidence from empirical research, I will discuss problematic divides and promising overlaps between researchers and data librarians and recommend strategies for more effective cooperation between these two groups.