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C&CS Accessibility Awareness and Technologies video link is now available

August 17, 2018

Thank you to everyone who registered and attended the online session from the Connect & Communicate Series, Accessibility Awareness and Technologies. Despite our own technological issues for the session, everyone did a great job and I am so happy that so many of you showed up. Particular thanks to our speakers, Scott Meneely and Patty Petronello, who were the ones who had the power outage, but came back to finish the session, and to Amy Snyder, who moderated the session.

The link to watch is available here, https://youtu.be/iFmyiJnzYG4

As a reminder, the C&CS team is looking for new sessions. Feel free to contact me or any member of the team listed on the C&CS page here: https://crdpala.org/connect-communicate/ , or fill out the Google form on the same page. That page also has some of our past programs available for watching at your convenience.

Happy Friday, ya’ll!

Last Call for Registration!

August 14, 2018

by Matthew McNelis

Last call for registration for this CRD sponsored program!

The College & Research Division presents ACRL Roadshow: Assessment in Action.

When: August 17, 2018
Where: Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

Description: In this day-long workshop on strategic and sustainable assessment, participants will identify institutional priorities and campus partners, design an assessment project grounded in action research, and prepare a plan for communicating the project results. This workshop is based on the highly successful ACRL Assessment in Action program curriculum.

Registration deadline: Friday August 10th. No registrations are accepted at the door. Attendance is limited to 100 people so register early.
PaLA Members – $45.00
Students – $25.00

More details and the full program schedule can be found at goo.gl/U2wRDC

This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor, through the College and Research Division (https://crdpala.org/) of PaLA. Show your appreciation by becoming a member of PaLA! And if you are a member – thank you!

Library Crawl

August 13, 2018

by Judith Koveleskie

Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference Registration Open

August 13, 2018

by Jill Hallam-Miller

Registration is now open for #BUDSC18, Bucknell University’s fifth annual Digital Scholarship Conference. The conference will take place at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA from October 5th-7th. The theme of the conference is “Digital Scholarship: Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy.”

The schedule along with travel and hotel information are now available on the conference website.

#BUDSC18 will bring together a community of practitioners–faculty, researchers, librarians, artists, educational technologists, students, administrators, and others–committed to promoting access to and through digital scholarship. We consider “access” in the broadest possible terms: accessible formats and technologies, access through universal design for learning, access to a mode of expression, access to stories that might not otherwise be heard or that might be lost over time, access to understanding and knowledge once considered beyond reach.

If you are considering implementing a Digital Scholarship program in your library, if you’re thinking about running a DS summer research program with students, or if you just want to know more about DS, I encourage you to join us at the conference! Please feel free to contact me (Jill Hallam-Miller) with any questions at jbhm001@bucknell.edu.

Promoting Information Fluency

August 5, 2018

by Judith Koveleskie

I have been fortunate to have a good relationship with most of the faculty in the Schools where I am the library liaison. However, there have been a few people who have never worked with me. While not openly hostile, they just never seem to see a need for a librarian to assist their students with research. This year, I decided to find another way to build relationships.

I reviewed our fall course schedule and prepared a list of potential classes where my services might be helpful. These included:

Classes where I had conducted sessions in the past.
Writing Intensive courses.
Introductory courses for the major.
Any class that I knew had a substantial research component.

I distributed this list at the final School meeting of the Spring Semester. It served as a reminder for those professors who had used me in the past to schedule their sessions early. It also was an invitation for others to contact me. I emphasized that I knew class time was precious and told them that if they did not want an in-class session, I could create a course-specific LibGuide, prepare a module that could be embedded in Canvas, or schedule individual meetings with their students.

For several specialized classes, I went ahead and created course guides and contacted the professors with the following email.

I have created a LibGuide that I think will be useful for your class. Of course, I would be happy to do an in-class session if you think that would be helpful.

Right now the guide is private and may be accessed using this URL:

setonhill.libguides.com/XXXXXX

I welcome your comments for additions or deletions. I may add some websites, but except for your suggestions, I think it is complete.

The response has been very positive. I have several classes scheduled for the fall and many who have not scheduled classes have thanked me for the guide and made suggestions for things to add. For the ones who have not responded, I think that I have a “foot in the door” and I hope to build on that for the future.

As soon as the Spring Course Schedule is available, I plan to do this again, as we have a six weeks between semesters to contact faculty and prepare.