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C&CS Academic Libraries and Autism Spectrum Disorder available for viewing

March 4, 2020
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Yesterdays session, “Academic Libraries and Autism Spectrum Disorder” is now available on YouTube. Link will remain available for a year. Gerry and Sebastian are wonderfully informed about the topic. Slides will be available on the C&CS page, https://crdpala.org/connect-communicate/

 

Special thanks to Sara Pike for doing our closed captioning and Diane Porterfield for moderating.

We also invite those who are not PaLA members to consider joining the Pennsylvania Library Association, which helps support programs like this one. If interested in becoming a member or for more information about the CRD, contact Katie Manwiller at Katie.Manwiller@desales.edu

Thanks!

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Call for Co-Editors, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research and Practice (PaLRaP) due 3/31

March 3, 2020
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Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (PaLRaP) Seeks a Co-Editor

This is a two-year renewable-term volunteer opportunity, beginning in mid-2020.
Responsibilities
  • Work in close collaboration with a co-editor to manage all aspects of Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, producing 2 issues each year.
  • Oversee all submissions moving through the publication process from initial submission to peer review, revision, layout, and final proofreading.
  • Work closely with a volunteer editorial team including news editors, copy editors, and layout editors.
  • Recruit and communicate with peer-reviewers as needed.
  • Communicate and work with authors to provide feedback on submissions as well as strong editorial guidance as needed.
  • Prepare updates and editorials as appropriate.
  • Oversee use of Online Journal System (OJS) software platform by authors, reviewers, and editorial staff, answering questions about its functionality and recommending best practices
  • Conduct or assist with training of new editorial staff
  • Remain in close communication with the journal publisher, the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh and the journal sponsor, the College & Research Division (CRD) of the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA).
  • Solicit submissions for all types of articles.
 
Required Qualifications
  • Experience writing for professional publications.
  • Significant experience working in Pennsylvania libraries.
  • Current member of the Pennsylvania Library Association and the College & Research Division.
  • Excellent communication skills required. Co-Editor must be willing and able to respond to numerous email messages in a timely manner.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Editorial experience.
  • Knowledge of issues related to open access scholarly publishing.

Submit a letter of interest and a resume to Emily Mross, PaLA College & Research Division Chair, at ELM43@psu.edu by March 31.

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OER Webinars from Millersville University

March 2, 2020
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Millersville University will be hosting a series of free webinars about OER all this week.  Several webinars focus on case studies of using OER for a specific class, which should lead to useful real-world advice.  Here are some of the topics they’ll be covering.

  • BUILDING OER INITIATIVES AS PART OF THE OPENSTAX INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
  • K-12 OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES
  • CASE STUDY: BIOLOGY ADOPTION AND DESIGN
  • CASE STUDY: ART HISTORY OPEN ADOPTION
  • CASE STUDY: ENGLISH COMPOSITION ADOPTION

To see the full details and times of each webinar visit their website here: https://www.millersville.edu/cae/open-education/index1.php 

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C&CS Presents: Academic Freedom for Academic Librarians: Do We Have It, and How Do We Know? Scheduled for March 13 at 1pm EST, Noon CST

March 2, 2020
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C&CS Presents

Academic Freedom for Academic Librarians:

Do We Have It, and How Do We Know?

 

Presented by Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon

March 13 at 1pm EST, noon central

Click here for Zoom Registration link

In this session, Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon will discuss the landscape of academic freedom for academic librarians. Many academic librarians think that we are protected by academic freedom policies, but is that really true? We conducted a survey in 2018, collecting information from hundreds of librarians on their experiences with academic freedom. In this session, we will highlight key findings, including how academic freedom experiences correlate to socioeconomic identities and job status. We will also offer concrete suggestions for exploring your own existing academic freedom protections and ways to advocate for stronger ones.

 

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Danya Leebaw

Danya Leebaw is the Social Sciences & Professional Programs Director at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Prior to this position, she was a social sciences librarian at Carleton College and a business librarian at Emory University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh and her BA in History from Grinnell College.

 

 

 

 

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Alexis Logsdon

Alexis Logsdon is the Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Before Minnesota, she served as a research and instruction librarian at Macalester College, and in a variety of adjunct and temporary librarian positions prior to that. She holds an MLIS from UW Milwaukee, an MA in English from UC Berkeley, and a BA in English from the City College of New York (CUNY).

 

 

 

C&CS would like to thank the CRD and PaLA for continued support of our initiative, which is paid for in part by membership dues. If you are not a PaLA member but are a student or active librarian in Pennsylvania, consider joining PaLA!

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Survey Opportunity: Effective Meetings in Libraries

February 28, 2020
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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

 

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