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The Pennsylvania Library Association’s College and Research Division Connect and Communicate Series provides programming that is relevant to and useful for academic librarians.

If you have a session you would like to share with our academic library community, we invite you to submit a proposal. If there is a speaker you would like to hear from, you are also welcome to include that information in our proposal form.

Please submit your ideas using our online form: https://forms.gle/LAjB7DBqudTgHfKF7

There’s more information at the Connect & Communicate webpage: https://crdpala.org/connect-communicate/

Recordings of the most recent recent sessions are available on the C&CS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdr724MhuZV7bh_iOOlc-Q

Thank you!

CRD Connect and Communicate Team

I’m writing to share information about the third meeting of the Summer 2022 series of Virtual Journal Club, sponsored by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association! 

We will continue with our theme of faculty perceptions of information literacy. At our meeting on Thursday, August 18th, from 2:00-3:00 pm, we will discuss:

Baird, C., & Soares, T. (2020). Faculty perceptions of students’ IL learning in first-year writing. portal: Libraries and the Academy 20(3), 509-532. doi:10.1353/pla.2020.0028.

Contact me for the details about attending the meeting – akirby@pennhighlands.edu

The fourth annual Affordable Learning PA Summit begins tomorrow and will be held virtually on August 9-10. The ALPA Summit is an opportunity for librarians, faculty, and others to collaborate on building a network dedicated to making higher education in Pennsylvania more accessible and affordable.

The theme of this year’s Summit is “Infrastructure for Affordability.” A variety of presentations, panels, posters, lightning talks, and keynotes will provide opportunities to learn about constructing OER, building networks, blueprints for assessment, pedagogy frameworks, and miscellaneous building materials.

Additional program details and a link to register for the Summit are available at https://alpasummit.learningtimesevents.org/. Registration for attendance at live events is capped at 200 attendees.

Please contact alpa-summit@palci.org with any questions about the program, or go to https://alpasummit.learningtimesevents.org/contact-us/ with technical questions about registration or access to the online conference community.

August 16, 2022 at 11:30 am EST

Recruiting and retaining a diverse student population is extremely important for any college or university. Students from traditionally underrepresented groups come from a wide array of backgrounds and are able to bring new ideas and new perspectives to existing knowledge. Libraries can play an important role in helping universities welcome these students as well as provide a safe environment that nurtures their growth as researchers and practitioners. The Engineering Library at Penn State — University Park recently created a program to let underrepresented students know of our resources and services and to enlist their help in making those services better, with the assistance of student organizations whose memberships are primarily comprised of these students. Beginning in Fall 2021, we have given multiple groups a month at a time to create displays and events that showcase the contributions of their membership and alumni to Penn State and the engineering field in general, while also allowing other patrons and visitors to get a glimpse into their cultures and history. We will explain how we set the program up, our successes and failures, and where we see our outreach going in the near future.

Registration Link – August 16, 2022 at 11:30 am EST

Paul McMonigle is the Engineering Instruction Librarian at Penn State University.

As a reminder, the Zoom link will be sent approximately 48 hours before the session. We will mute participants on entry into the Zoom room. Session will be recorded and available on YouTube after the session. We will enable Zoom’s Live Transcription feature during the session.

If you would like to present with C&CS, please contact the C&CS team.