Affordable Learning PA Summit 2022 Call For Proposals
The Affordable Learning PA Steering Committee invites you to submit a proposal for the fourth annual Affordable Learning Summit. The Affordable Learning 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 for this year’s Summit is Infrastructure for Affordability. Opportunities include panels, individual presentations, virtual posters, pre-recorded lightning talks, roundtables/networking (breakout rooms with moderators), or other format suitable for a fully virtual conference environment.
The Steering Committee welcomes proposals on aspects of open and affordable education activities across these themes:
| Theme | Suggested Topics |
| Building Networks | Communities of Practice Faculty Partnerships Engaging Students OER Advocacy Organizations Campus Connections: bookstore, student success offices, learning technology |
| Constructing OER | Publishing and Creating OER Copyright Digital Repositories Authoring Tools ILS Integration |
| Blueprints for Assessment | Financial Learning Satisfaction Learning Outcomes Programmatic Accessibility |
| Pedagogy Frameworks | Open Pedagogy Interactive Course Materials Renewable Assignments |
| Miscellaneous Building Materials | Zero Cost Materials Designing OER for accessibility |
This year’s ALPA Summit will be held virtually from August 9th-August 10th. The deadline for submissions is Thursday June 30th. Notifications for accepted proposals will be delivered by July 15. The date, time, and format of proposed presentations will be confirmed through conversation with the presenters during the week of July 25th.
Please click here to submit your proposal.
If you have additional questions about submitting your proposal, or about the ALPA Summit in general, please contact alpa-summit@palci.org
(Link not working? Find the proposal submission form here: https://forms.gle/bP8WNRpn8QtDNaEJ7)
Recordings of the two most recent Connect & Communicate sessions are available on our YouTube channel. Thank you to everyone who joined us live, and special thanks to our presenters.
In April, Allyson Wind of East Stroudsburg University presented “Promoting Inclusion in the Academic Library with a CILLS Program Internship.”
In May, Ashoo Kumar, Sandy Morgart, Eric Novotny, and Dan Peters from Penn State University Libraries presented “Microfilm Enters the Digital Age: A Big Evolution for a Microformat.”
Bucknell University invites librarians and their colleagues to submit a proposal to present at this year’s digital scholarship conference. Please see the call for proposals below.
Converging Paths: Digital Scholarship, Social Justice, and Intersecting Communities
Digital scholarship has often been rooted in the academy, although many of our projects seek to uncover community histories, lives, and events. In this year’s Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference (October 18-20, 2022; the event will be fully virtual), we seek to address the question: What are the paths through which digital scholarship intersects with communities and social justice?
The questions we pose to participants as jumping off points for proposals include, but are not limited to:
- How does digital scholarship help us challenge dominant narratives and ideologies?
- Whose voices can be elevated, uncovered, and reclaimed through digital scholarship?
- How do we bridge the gap and promote engagement between the academy and community through digital scholarship?
- What does it mean to collaborate on and produce digital scholarship projects with communities beyond our own, and what ethical responsibilities do we share?
- How can we learn from and build on our experiences to sustain digital scholarship projects?
#BUDSC22 is committed to expanding the definition of digital scholarship to be more inclusive across diverse communities, both inside and outside of academia. The conference will bring together a broad community of practitioners — faculty, researchers, students, librarians, educational technologists, administrators, and others — collaborating on digital scholarship through research, teaching, and community engagement.
Submissions may take the form of interactive presentations, project demonstrations, digital posters (pre-recorded), panel presentations, work-in-progress sessions, workshops, or other creative formats.
We look forward to building on the success of our past conferences, in which we came together to discuss challenges, share working models, reflect on projects, and inspire new avenues for actively including students in scholarly pursuits. Want to learn more? Check out video highlights from our past conferences or search our archived sessions.
Submission Link: https://tinyurl.com/BUDSC22Proposal
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2022
Notification By: August 15, 2022
Conference Website: https://budsc.scholar.bucknell.edu/
Questions? Please contact the BUDSC planning committee at: budsc@bucknell.edu
Using MLA professional competencies to help support scholarly activity of clinical staff
One of the most intriguing tasks that I have as a clinical and reference librarian at hospital library in which I work, is the work of supporting the scholarly activities of our clinical staff.
As I have learned this support comes in many different roles such as providing poster creation and design help for our nurse residency groups or conducting and maintaining author publication lists for our clinical and resident staff or simply answering reference questions in support of publication.
The goal of supporting these scholarly activities within the clinical setting is to ensure that the library is supporting the evidenced based medicine practice that ensures the best quality of care for our patients. I am proud to be a part of the team but wanted to make sure that I was supporting the team the best way that I could, so I turned to the Medical Library Association’s Professional Competencies (https://www.mlanet.org/page/test-competencies ) to ensure that I was on the right track.
I realized that I was meeting the competence of Health information professionalism by seeking out assistance through the collaborative work of the MLA communities(https://www.mlanet.org/page/special-interest-groups-landing-page) and their listserv emails list serves and by utilizing the competency itself to guide my work.
The competencies of supporting evidenced based practice and research, instruction and instructional design as well as the competency for leadership and management were helpful in providing guidance for managing the marketing to the various clinical groups and the implementation of the processes used to provide training to the nursing residency groups and in the fine tuning of the existing author publication reporting procedure.
Utilizing the Medical Library Association’s Professional Competencies assisted me and strengthened by abilities to support the information needs and provide the right information services to support the scholarly activity of my clinical staff.
Summer 2022 CRD Virtual Journal Club
Greetings!
Welcome to the Summer 2022 series of the Virtual Journal Club, sponsored by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association! The theme for this series will be faculty perceptions of information literacy.
We will meet on the third Thursday of the month from 2:00-3:00 pm. Meeting dates are June 16, July 21, and August 18. For our first meeting, we will discuss:
Huddleston, B., Bond, J. D., Chenoweth, L. L., & Hull, T. L. (2020). Faculty perspectives on undergraduate research skills: Nine core skills for research success. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 59(2), 118-130.
We will use the following Zoom link and passcode for each meeting in the series:
https://kings.zoom.us/j/93660828235?pwd=MmxaNUszSEZEUTFOcWk0Y3RBUTZnZz09
Meeting ID: 936 6082 8235
Passcode: 635767
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Have a great day,
Melissa, Alex, and Rebecca
