In March 2020, the library world ground to a halt along with other parts of life in the United States. Library staff were immediately busy figuring out how to work from home and how to provide services during this challenging time. Librarians transitioned to remote work, brought equipment home, and developed new procedures. Colleagues retired, left, and even died. Once the initial panic passed, libraries slowly started hiring.
{"title":"Ready or not, here we come: Job transitions during a pandemic","authors":"Mozhdeh Khodarahmi, Gwen Gregory","doi":"10.5860/crln.82.7.323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.7.323","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2020, the library world ground to a halt along with other parts of life in the United States. Library staff were immediately busy figuring out how to work from home and how to provide services during this challenging time. Librarians transitioned to remote work, brought equipment home, and developed new procedures. Colleagues retired, left, and even died. Once the initial panic passed, libraries slowly started hiring.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48606550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How can a campus promote a culture of inquiry? How can students’ awareness of behaviors and attitudes involved in inquiry be cultivated? How can barriers between faculty/staff and students be reduced? Our experience developing a co-curricular, interdisciplinary panel discussion series spotlights how librarians and instructional designers shape inquiry culture on campus through programming.
{"title":"From concept to creation: Shaping inquiry culture on campus with a co-curricular panel","authors":"Jennifer Jarson, Kate Morgan","doi":"10.5860/crln.82.7.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.7.306","url":null,"abstract":"How can a campus promote a culture of inquiry? How can students’ awareness of behaviors and attitudes involved in inquiry be cultivated? How can barriers between faculty/staff and students be reduced? Our experience developing a co-curricular, interdisciplinary panel discussion series spotlights how librarians and instructional designers shape inquiry culture on campus through programming.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43059048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traditionally, university libraries are associated among students as a place for reading, learning, and research. However, when serving freshmen, it is necessary to create an atmosphere of trust in the library between librarians and students. “When the library acts as a welcoming and lively host, engaging the community in discourse and the enjoyment of the life of the mind, the community perception of the role of the library on campus begins to change. The library becomes a true cultural center and an agent in community building, and library staff and programs become engaged with the community in more and different ways.”
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The role of teaching librarians has naturally evolved over the decades as information literacy (IL) has been defined, redefined, and conceptualized from a set of standardized skills to an interconnected group of understandings. To build effective instruction programs, teaching librarians quickly develop numerous competencies. The successful teaching librarian learns to communicate effectively with students, collaborate with disciplinary faculty across the campus, and develop innovative approaches for teaching IL. Over time, although perhaps unknown to the teaching librarian, all of these skills that create good teachers also create good leaders.
{"title":"Information literacy leadership: The traits we didn’t know we had","authors":"A. Brooks, L. Warner, Jane Hammons","doi":"10.5860/CRLN.82.6.278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/CRLN.82.6.278","url":null,"abstract":"The role of teaching librarians has naturally evolved over the decades as information literacy (IL) has been defined, redefined, and conceptualized from a set of standardized skills to an interconnected group of understandings. To build effective instruction programs, teaching librarians quickly develop numerous competencies. The successful teaching librarian learns to communicate effectively with students, collaborate with disciplinary faculty across the campus, and develop innovative approaches for teaching IL. Over time, although perhaps unknown to the teaching librarian, all of these skills that create good teachers also create good leaders.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"82 1","pages":"278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43784637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megan Reichelt, K. Gourlay, Valerie Linsinbigler, Ashley Blinstrub, Maoria J. Kirker
In fall 2018, members of the Teaching and Learning Team at the George Mason University Libraries proposed a focus group study to assess one of the libraries’ student learning outcomes. The outcome, “Students will recognize that the library’s value exceeds traditional information sources in order to transfer their knowledge to experiences beyond the classroom,” proved difficult to assess, but we wanted to produce some data to attempt to measure it. We hoped a focus group study of graduating seniors might provide us with evidence for this outcome.
{"title":"Focus groups as an assessment strategy: Lessons learned","authors":"Megan Reichelt, K. Gourlay, Valerie Linsinbigler, Ashley Blinstrub, Maoria J. Kirker","doi":"10.5860/CRLN.82.6.254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/CRLN.82.6.254","url":null,"abstract":"In fall 2018, members of the Teaching and Learning Team at the George Mason University Libraries proposed a focus group study to assess one of the libraries’ student learning outcomes. The outcome, “Students will recognize that the library’s value exceeds traditional information sources in order to transfer their knowledge to experiences beyond the classroom,” proved difficult to assess, but we wanted to produce some data to attempt to measure it. We hoped a focus group study of graduating seniors might provide us with evidence for this outcome.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"254 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41280940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic librarianship holds in its foundation and core values a very important task—protecting the privacy of everyone who enters the library space. In order “[f]or libraries to flourish as centers for uninhibited access to information, librarians must stand behind their users’ right to privacy and freedom of inquiry.” Libraries provide access to information to individuals who do not have access to it at their homes. Libraries give people a choice about how to go about their information inquiries, and choice in libraries “requires both a varied selection and the assurance that one’s choice is not monitored.” Protecting privacy has become a focus in recent years with the emergence of urbane technology and opportunity for greater surveillance. Because of this, privacy and surveillance literacy need to become a core part of information literacy instruction.
{"title":"Thinking about a thing called privacy: A reflection through example","authors":"Marisol Ortiz","doi":"10.5860/CRLN.82.6.282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/CRLN.82.6.282","url":null,"abstract":"Academic librarianship holds in its foundation and core values a very important task—protecting the privacy of everyone who enters the library space. In order “[f]or libraries to flourish as centers for uninhibited access to information, librarians must stand behind their users’ right to privacy and freedom of inquiry.” Libraries provide access to information to individuals who do not have access to it at their homes. Libraries give people a choice about how to go about their information inquiries, and choice in libraries “requires both a varied selection and the assurance that one’s choice is not monitored.” Protecting privacy has become a focus in recent years with the emergence of urbane technology and opportunity for greater surveillance. Because of this, privacy and surveillance literacy need to become a core part of information literacy instruction.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"82 1","pages":"282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43280256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Berg, K. Hoffmann, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy
The pandemic is having far-reaching consequences as we adjust to lockdowns, adapt to working from home, and face unanticipated personal and professional challenges. We have experienced disruptions to many aspects of our lives, including our professional lives. Research is one element of academic librarians’ professional roles that is being altered or interrupted.
{"title":"“I mean, pandemic” How COVID-19 has disrupted librarians’ research","authors":"S. Berg, K. Hoffmann, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy","doi":"10.5860/crln.82.6.272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.6.272","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic is having far-reaching consequences as we adjust to lockdowns, adapt to working from home, and face unanticipated personal and professional challenges. We have experienced disruptions to many aspects of our lives, including our professional lives. Research is one element of academic librarians’ professional roles that is being altered or interrupted.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"82 1","pages":"272-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42688255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In spring 2020, two librarians at Penn State-Abington transitioned a series of planned focus groups online after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person sessions. Despite the added challenges of coordinating online groups, we found that the virtual format was effective and offered advantages over in-person groups. Online focus groups eliminate the need for moderators to coordinate the logistics of reserving rooms, ordering food, and purchasing and setting up external recording equipment. Studies show that subjects experience lower “participation burden” for online groups. Virtual groups also enable researchers to reach and attract populations that are geographically dispersed, less mobile, and more demographically diverse. In this article we will discuss our experience conducting virtual focus groups, best practices for conducting online focus groups, and information we learned that will help improve our spaces and services.
{"title":"Focus groups from home: Conducting virtual focus groups during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond","authors":"Brendan Johnson, Katie Odhner","doi":"10.5860/CRLN.82.6.258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/CRLN.82.6.258","url":null,"abstract":"In spring 2020, two librarians at Penn State-Abington transitioned a series of planned focus groups online after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person sessions. Despite the added challenges of coordinating online groups, we found that the virtual format was effective and offered advantages over in-person groups. Online focus groups eliminate the need for moderators to coordinate the logistics of reserving rooms, ordering food, and purchasing and setting up external recording equipment. Studies show that subjects experience lower “participation burden” for online groups. Virtual groups also enable researchers to reach and attract populations that are geographically dispersed, less mobile, and more demographically diverse. In this article we will discuss our experience conducting virtual focus groups, best practices for conducting online focus groups, and information we learned that will help improve our spaces and services.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"82 1","pages":"258-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46780143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In December 2019, two student assistants in the Special Collections Research Center at Appalachian State University curated an in-person pop-up exhibit of rare and manuscript materials as part of the University Libraries’ “Library Cares” week-long exam study break program. The pop-up, entitled “Winter in Appalachia,” took place from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in a high-traffic area on Belk Library and Information Commons’ first floor. The student curators were undergraduates who worked part-time at the reference desk in Special Collections and were supervised by the reference archivist, who served as their exhibit facilitator. This article is an interview with the student curators about their experience planning, preparing, and staffing the exhibit, and their evaluation of the event. We hope to be able to return to such events post-pandemic, but we have started to think about ways to incorporate student curation in a virtual world.
{"title":"Special collections pop-up exhibits: Two student curators’ perspectives","authors":"G. Browning, Mandi Burnison, Kari Salisbury","doi":"10.5860/crln.82.6.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.6.274","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2019, two student assistants in the Special Collections Research Center at Appalachian State University curated an in-person pop-up exhibit of rare and manuscript materials as part of the University Libraries’ “Library Cares” week-long exam study break program. The pop-up, entitled “Winter in Appalachia,” took place from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in a high-traffic area on Belk Library and Information Commons’ first floor. The student curators were undergraduates who worked part-time at the reference desk in Special Collections and were supervised by the reference archivist, who served as their exhibit facilitator. This article is an interview with the student curators about their experience planning, preparing, and staffing the exhibit, and their evaluation of the event. We hope to be able to return to such events post-pandemic, but we have started to think about ways to incorporate student curation in a virtual world.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48435193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee was the backdrop to my becoming a scholarly communication librarian in February of that year. That’s also when I joined Twitter, to better follow politics and librarianship, and maybe that’s to blame.
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