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We go to a lot of meetings as academic librarians. Please consider taking this survey from fellow academic librarians about effective meetings. 

Researchers at the University of North Texas are looking for survey respondents in order to study meetings in academic libraries. Meeting science is a relatively new phenomenon with growing empirical research.  There is nothing relating to libraries in this literature.  Researchers hope to determine:

• What are the predictors of success for productive meetings in academic libraries?
• What are academic librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership?
• What are “best practices” for meeting participation and leadership?

You may participate if you work for an academic library.  The survey is expected to take less than 15 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary and you may stop at any time without penalty. By completing the survey you are giving consent to participate and confirming that you are at least 18 years old.

If you have any questions regarding this study, please contact Julie Leuzinger (principal investigator), University of North Texas Libraries, julie.leuzinger@unt.edu or 940-891-6750.

This project has been reviewed and approved by the University of North Texas Institutional Review Board (940) 565-3940. Please contact the UNT IRB with any questions regarding your rights as a research subject.

To take the survey (click link or copy/paste into your browser): https://unt.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e8ow5n2BuNYB2dL

Workshop Theme: Pennsylvania Academic Libraries: Powering Progress with Essential Literacies

Description: Academic libraries are known as champions of information literacy. Though information literacy is vital to the critical thinking development of college students, it is not the only literacy needed to be successful. Additionally, many libraries are interpreting information literacy beyond its traditional definition to increase their scope and services to their campus communities. On Tuesday, May 19 at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown, PA, the College and Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association will explore how we engage with many literacies in an academic library context. 

To facilitate this exploration, we are seeking innovative and interactive proposals for one-hour breakout sessions that showcase scholarship in or academic library efforts to engage their campus communities in the five essential literacies that empower our students to become critical thinkers and engaged citizens as identified by the PA Forward Star Library Program (http://paforwardstarlibraries.org/):

• Information Literacy
• Health Literacy
• Civic and Social Literacy 
• Financial Literacy 
• Basic Literacy 

You do not need to be a Star Library in order to submit a proposal. Proposals should broadly fit the theme of at least one literacy category, and may relate to instruction, programming, collection development, or any other area your library supports through literacy efforts. 

Proposal Requirements: Proposals must include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, the literacy/literacies addressed, a brief plan for audience engagement, and 2-3 learning objectives. Please refrain from including identifiable information in your abstract and other materials to help ensure a blind evaluation. PaLA CRD members will be given preference in session evaluation and selection. 

Submissions are due by March 16.

Submit your proposal here: https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3eER4RjN2FcdJNb

Workshop registration and more information is available here: https://www.palibraries.org/event/2020CRD_ACRL_Roadshow

Questions? Contact us at CRDPALA@gmail.com

This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.

Support is also provided by the College and Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association, https://crdpala.org/

This is a reminder that there is still time to register for next Friday’s AL (Affordable Learning) Pa Eastern Regional OER Workshop Day for those of you on this side of the state! I am sharing with you an email from Bill Hemmig, the Dean of Learning Resources and Online Learning at Bucks County Community College:

Affordable Learning PA invites you to attend an Eastern Pennsylvania Regional OER Workshop Day hosted by Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, March 6 (the last day of Open Education Week!).  Organized by the Affordable Learning PA OER Specialists from Bucks County Community College and Kutztown University, the Workshop Day is free, including registration, beverages and lunch, and features speakers from the Eastern PA region and beyond. If you cannot make the trip to Bucks, attendance via Zoom will be available.

Please register for either in-person or virtual attendance here: https://forms.gle/voGy9ZJpSDfsYYTP9.  The registration deadline is Friday, February 28.

Please feel free to forward this message to anyone at your institution who may be interested in attending.

Bill Hemmig and Dan Stafford

Workshop Day organizers

Here is Bill’s contact information:

Bill Hemmig
Dean, Learning Resources and Online Learning
Bucks County Community College
275 Swamp Road
Newtown, PA 18940
215-504-8611
bill.hemmig@bucks.edu

Here is the schedule. Anyone planning on going?

9:30 AM: Check-in. Beverages to be served.

10:00 AM: Welcome

10:10 AM: Andrew Mashintonio, Regina Hierholzer & Judi Lehrhaupt |
Kutztown University, Bucks County Community College
OER Adoption: Three Faculty Perspectives
Using OER in an Introductory Biology Course for Non-Majors
Dr. Mashintonio will discuss the benefits and challenges experienced when adopting the OpenStax Biology textbook.
Adopting Multiple Open Resources
Our session is about the challenges of creating an OER course when adopting resources from several different sources. Come and listen to the viewpoint of a faculty OER course developer and an instructional designer when working together to develop an AESL course. You’ll learn that there are several different supporting roles that you need to reach out to in your institution to make the course a success.

10:40 AM: Shanna Hollich | Wilson College
A Deep Dive into CC Licensing
You’ve worked with open resources, you’ve created some of your own, and you’ve read a bit about the different CC licenses and probably even used some of them on your own work. Here we provide a forum to get answers to your more advanced questions about open licensing, adaptations and remixes, and license compatibility, from someone who teaches the Creative Commons Certificate courses.

11:20 AM: Break

11:30 AM: Emma Horst-Martz | PennPIRG
Mobilizing Students on Your Campus
A campus organizer at UC Santa Barbara last year, Emma will speak about her experiences working with students on OER advocacy in depth.

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM: Free group discussions

1:30 PM: Dan Stafford, Bill Hemmig & Steven Bell, Moderated by Kate Cummings |
Kutztown University, Bucks County Community College, Temple University,
Luzerne County Community College
Panel on Sustainability and Strategic Planning
Dan Stafford will speak about tactics used to go from the question “Excuse me, but what does OER stand for?” to having a core and growing group of OER enthusiasts and supporters. Engagement techniques for specific audiences, the timing of those engagements, and successes and challenges along the way will be discussed.

In 2018 Bucks completed its first OER initiative, a grant-funded program that redesigned sections of high-enrollment courses to use only resources that are free to students. Following this successful initiative, a three-part plan was implemented to sustain and grow the momentum that includes intensive professional development, a budget and process for continuing to select and fund course redesigns, and a process for the continued curation of OER course templates.

Steven Bell will describe how he and his colleagues used a ‘Textbook Listening Tour’ to better understand their faculty textbook behavior where the emphasis was on listening rather than selling faculty on OER. The resulting report enabled librarians to obtain the Provost’s support in establishing an institution-wide textbook affordability taskforce designed to support a sustainable campus-wide approach to affordable learning materials.

2:20 PM: Break

2:30 PM: Jill Hallam-Miller | Bucknell University
Open Pedagogy: A Primer
Learn techniques of Open Pedagogy to empower student learning through the act of creation. Let the students play an active role.

3:00 PM: Farewell