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Cram Jam, Contests, and Coffee: Getting Students into the Library
Study for finals during “Cram Jam”; enjoy coffee and donuts; find the “Hump Daaaaaay!” camel; write a haiku for the haiku contest; relieve finals stress with “Study, Play, Repeat” activities. This presentation will highlight ... -
Cram Jam, Contests, and Coffee: Getting Students into the Library
Study for finals during “Cram Jam;” enjoy coffee and donuts; find the “Hump Daaaaaay!” camel; write a haiku for the haiku contest; relieve finals stress with “Study, Play, Repeat” activities. Discover several of the programs, ... -
Creating a Marketing Plan with a Marketing Team of One
For librarians with little or no marketing experience, marketing plans can be daunting and overwhelming. However, they are not as difficult as they may seem. This article describes how the author created a marketing plan ... -
Creating and Supporting a Borrowable Collection of Portable Digital Technology
(HighEdWeb Conference, 2012-10-08)One University offers a collection of digital equipment, including iPads, laptops, digital cameras, digital audio recorders, microphones, networking cables, projectors and financial/graphing calculators. These items were ... -
Creating in Quarantine: Making Online During COVID-19
During spring 2020, universities found themselves navigating an unprecedented and sudden shift to online learning. Librarians play a crucial role in connecting students and faculty with digital tools and resources during ... -
Creating Inclusive Makerspaces
As more universities embrace makerspaces as catalysts for creativity and innovation, the higher education community has the opportunity to address issues of inclusivity and intentionally create spaces that encourage ... -
Creating Museum Exhibits Faculty-Librarian Collaboration within a First-Year Research Course
Integrating information literacy (IL) into credit-bearing courses is not a new topic for librarians, but few are able to go beyond the traditional one-shot session. Some are able to become embedded in a class, with varying ... -
Creating Order from Chaos and Fostering Collaboration: Documentation, Cross-training, and Continuous Operations in Multi-service Point Libraries
In 2018, a library reorganization consolidated several previously separate units into a single department. The newly-created unit sought out a method for documenting and disseminating existing practices, with a goal of ... -
Creative Deconstruction: Using Zines to Teach the ACRL Framework
Zines not only record the narratives of counter-cultural movements and preserve the voices of marginalized people, their creation and history can also be used to implicitly teach students elements of the ACRL Framework ... -
Critical Consumption: Empowering Students to Evaluate Sources in a One-Shot Session on Introductory Consumer Marketing Research
Instruction in library resources and research for the introductory marketing class is one of the most requested one-shot sessions from the business school at Miami University, a large public school in the Midwest, with ... -
Cultivating Connection by Caring: Using Empathetic Marketing to Reach Distance Students and Ease Library Anxiety
“Feeling overwhelmed and stressed about your research papers? The librarian can help!” Empathetic marketing is the latest marketing trend—showing students how you can meet their core emotional needs. Meeting these needs ... -
Cutting Through COVID-19 Communications Overload: Which Emails Engaged Personal Librarian Students?
When the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a move to remote learning for many in early 2020, those employed in higher education turned to email as a primary method for communicating and remaining virtually connected with ... -
Cyber House Rules: how to host a winning virtual game night
Our institution has hosted monthly board game nights for our campus community for the last several years. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we were forced to cancel our in-person events and rethink how we would ... -
Data Curation Workshop:
The current state of research data is like a disorganized photo collection: a mix of formats scattered across different media without a lot of authority control. That is changing as the need to make data available to ... -
Data Curation: Tips and Tools for Today
In the past year we have seen how quickly and easily scientific data can be removed from government websites and rendered inaccessible to the public. Libraries have a responsibility to step into the breach and provide safe ... -
Data Literacy on Demand: Creating a Set of Data Literacy Modules for Remote Instruction
The case study presented here, from Miami University, demonstrates one approach to designing and implementing a series of online modules covering data management skills. Through collaboration with the Miami Ecological Big ... -
DECIDING, DOCUMENTING, AND DISSEMINATING LIBRARY POLICIES AND PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY FROM A NEWLY-CREATED LIBRARY UNIT
Staff turnover, varying practices across service points, and consolidation of previously independent units are three starter reasons to document common practices. This session will address the development of central ... -
Deciding, Documenting, and Disseminating Library Policies: A Case Study from a Newly Created Library Unit
taff turnover, varying practices across service points, and consolidation of previously independent units are three starter reasons to document common practices. This session will address the development of central ...