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Save the Date! – “Digitize Locally, Share Globally” Workshop

March 28, 2016

by gregory258

Save the Date! The West Branch Chapter of the Pennsylvania Library Association invites you to save the date for its spring workshop:

“Digitize Locally, Share Globally”

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

Workshop topics to include: Pennsylvania Digital Collections Project for the Digital Public Library of America, examples of public & academic library collaborations on digitizing local collections, the POWER Library PA Photos & Document service, metadata for local digital collections, grant funding for digitizing projects, outreach events with local digital collections, and the PA State Library’s Scribe Station mobile scanners.

Details and registration information to follow. Contact Alison Gregory at gregory “at” lycoming “dot” edu with questions.

“Learning Analytics” webcast registration now open

March 24, 2016

by gregory258

Registration is available for the three-part webcast series, “Learning Analytics: Strategies for Optimizing Student Data on Your Campus.”

This webcast series, co-sponsored by the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Committee, the Student Learning and Information Committee, and the ACRL Instruction Section, will explore the advantages and opportunities of learning analytics as a tool which uses student data to demonstrate library impact and to identify learning weaknesses. How can librarians initiate learning analytics initiatives on their campuses and contribute to existing collaborations? The first webcast will provide an introduction to learning analytics and an overview of important issues. The second event will focus on privacy issues and other ethical considerations as well as responsible practice, and the third webcast will include a panel of librarians who are successfully using learning analytics on their campuses.

Webcast One: Learning Analytics and the Academic Library: The State of the Art and the Art of Connecting the Library with Campus Initiatives (March 29, 2016)

Webcast Two: Privacy and the Online Classroom: Learning Analytics, Ethical Considerations, and Responsible Practice (April 14, 2016)

Webcast Three: Moving Beyond Circulation and Gate Counts: Practical Applications of Learning Analytics (May 11, 2016)

Complete details including webcast descriptions and learning outcomes for each webcast, and registration materials are available online. or http://www.ala.org/acrl/learninganalytics Questions can be directed to mconahan@ala.org.

Legal Research for Non-Law Librarians

March 22, 2016

tags: professional development

by Jill Hallam-Miller

The Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association (GPLLA) is offering an 8-week online course on legal research resources for people who occasionally work with legal materials, but who are not law specialists.

The course will be offered in an online, live-streaming format, and it includes sessions on primary and secondary materials (including a class on Pennsylvania-specific case law, statutes, and other resources), as well as training on using each of the three major legal research database platforms, Westlaw, LexisNexis, and Bloomberg Law.

The cost of the course is $100, and a complete syllabus, faculty bios, and registration information can be found on the GPLLA website.

Contact information:
Lori Strickler Corso
Electronic Services Librarian & Legal Research Instructor
299 N. Spring Mill Rd.
Villanova PA 19085
lori.corso@law.villanova.edu
610 519-7235

Call for Proposals: #BUDSC16: Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration

March 18, 2016

tags: conference, Digital Scholarship, networking, professional development

by Jill Hallam-Miller

On behalf of the conference organizing committee, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal for the Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, #BUDSC16: Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration, to be held October 28-30, 2016.

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference on October 28-30, 2016. The theme of the conference is “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.”

This conference will bring together a broad community of practitioners–faculty, researchers, librarians, educational technologists, and students–who are using technology to rethink seemingly intractable borders within and outside of the university. We define “borders” as boundaries that limit access; conditions that differentiate insiders from outsiders; or any obstacle that impairs open communication and collaboration.

We invite proposals that explore or critique digital modes of scholarly, cultural, and political intersectionality. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how crossing institutional boundaries, whether within or beyond the university, can facilitate the expansion of borders, broadly conceived.

Some topics may include:

Digital tools that bridge the gap between scholarship and teaching
Computational methods that explore intersections of identity, power, and social justice
Global and multilingual aspects of digital scholarship
The role of technology in creating communities of practice that bridge cultural, racial, and economic divides
Digital technologies that facilitate equitable collaborations between faculty and students, or that bridge the town/gown divide
New modes of inquiry that negotiate and rethink normative ideas of gender and sexuality
Forms of digital scholarship that allow for increased accessibility

Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, project demos, electronic posters, panel discussions, work-in-progress sessions, workshops, or lightning talks.

We look forward to building on the success of the last two years, in which instructional technologists, librarians, archivists, faculty, students, and community members came together to discuss challenges, share working models, reflect on projects, and inspire new avenues for actively including students in public scholarly pursuits. For more information, please view our video from the 2015 meeting and visit the conference website.

Proposals due May 31, 2016 via the online application form

Please feel free to contact Jill Hallam-Miller at jbhm001@bucknell.edu with questions.

ACLCP Spring Conference–registration now open

March 15, 2016

by Katie Stewart

On Friday, April 15th, ACLCP will be hosting its annual Spring Conference at the Red Lion Hotel – Harrisburg East (formerly the Holiday Inn). The conference, “Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Libraries”, will feature:

*Emily Drabinski* Coordinator of Library Instruction, Long Island University

*April Hathcock* NYU Scholarly Communications Librarian

and

*Derrick Jefferson* Communication Librarian, American University

Registration is now live. Please see the official Spring Conference flyer for more details: http://www2.aclcp.org/documents/program-spring2016flyer.pdf

Questions can be directed to programs@aclcp.org.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ben Hoover & Lindsay Sakmann

ACLCP Program Co-Chairs